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bentstick54:
I’ve only made it to Twin Oaks once in 2016 for the Classic. You’re right, Pappy is the magic there.
I recently acquired a new place to cut some Osage, and the lady of the house was very interested when I told her I wanted it for selfbows and not firewood. She had been watching some shows, I assume on something like the History channel, and then started doing a lot of reading on the subject. She walked me down to the wood lot and started asking me questions about which trees, what size, how to read the bark pattern, what are the best growth rings, etc. I was amazed at how interested she was. I don’t know much about her background, and if she would ever take it any farther than the knowledge stage, but you never know.
bjrogg:
Badger I would really like to see updates on how everything evolves for you.
If I wasn’t so busy with my other passion of farming I would really like to try something similar.
I’m curious about the ladies though. My experience with doing demonstrations is that the women are the ones who are most interested and ask the best questions.
Bjrogg
bradsmith2010:
I would say give it a chance,, you can always stop if its not working,,
:)bow making is just harder than it looks,, and people do get discourged or loose interest when they come to that realization...my driving force when I first started was not just make a bow,, I wanted to make a bow that would hunt,, so that kept me going
willie:
Do you know any women in the archery community you could invite to critique the class/students/teaching style?
superdav95:
I agree with bjorg here. I’ve done some teaching with many women in firearms training and they learn well and often times faster then the men. I think this is partly due to the ego perhaps getting in the way for men and firearms and in this case bow building. Women that I’ve taught are like sponges and they do ask lots of questions which would be good. I know this isn’t an exact comparison to bow building but I think you may be pleasantly surprised. I would teach them differently for sure like was already said. Women like to be empowered and given lots of good encouragement on any progress. I found men to be a little more independent when given a task. Obviously some exceptions of course. You may have to simplify the course a bit for them and by this I mean have the staves halfway prepared perhaps or lengthen the time allotted for the course. You’ll want to provide some gloves for the ladies and be prepared to do more then usual demonstrations of how it’s done. They are fast learners but many if not most will not have the background working knowledge of hand tools and such. The nice thing about women is that they don’t commonly come preloaded with a chip on their shoulders either. So many times I can remember a group of men and women coming through for some firearms training and often the men would be stuck in bad habits and too proud to admit to go back to basics to fix the issues. Women on the other hand don’t usually come preloaded with these habits and often outshoot the men because of this. This has been my observation with teaching firearms for several years. Young kids under 16 is a different story these days. Like you say if they come with a father or other adult then would be ok I think. Best of luck.
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