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| rainmaker |
Knockabout longbow for a cheapskate!Right, I'm still new, so hopefully I'll get away with this if it's a cheeky/stupid question..I am tinkering about making a longbow,(at the moment I'm just turning 1 big bit of yew into lots of small bits..) but I would like to get a bit of practice in with a proper one, mainly so I don't go through too many duff prototypes! Here's the thing, though... The budget isn't good  in fact there barely is a budget! Any ideas on where to get a 2nd hand longbow with a bit of life left in it?
Also any good books on bowmaking to backup the info I have found on the interweb? Thanks muchly, Charlie |
| segolden |
I suspect that you'll find a good deal somewhere on the various club sites, in addition to forums like this one. As for books, the highest rated tome I know of is "The Traditional Bowyer's Bible", a three volume set. Next would be Paul Comstock's "The Bent Stick", and Glenn St. Charles' "Billets To Bow". There are probably a lot of others out there, but those are the ones I've personal knowledge of. If you can get hold of any issues of "Primitive Archer Magazine", they have a number of good bow-building articles. See their site:
http://www.primitivearcher.com/index.shtml |
| Liam |
Not an English longbow I admit, but maybe you would like this http://archersrest.myfreeforum.org/sutra19780.php#19780 on offer from dtalbot |
| Bushy |
Why dont u look at Bickerstaff he wrote about entitled the history of the longbow in which he shows u how to make a longbow might be of assistance and there are pictrues |
| rainmaker |
Thanks very much for the tips chaps, been out in the garden today, I now have a bow, I won't say finished, but its flinging a stick (can't really call it an arrow yet either..  ) about the garden, with shockingly, a fair degree of predictability... a step forward, but a lot more research to do! 
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