Begginers guide to bow making

[alanesq]

Over the last 6 months I have taught myself (with a lot of help from forum members) to make longbows / warbows
so I thought that to return all the help I have received I would try and get down in writing all I have learned in the hope it will be of help/interest to any others who would like to give bow making a try

so here it is http://www.alanesq.com/The-Back-Street-Bowyer.pdf (right click and select "save target as" to download it)

Its early days and I hope to improve it a lot in the near future

[teddybear]

it looks grate can you zoom in to read it ?

[alanesq]

Its ok on mine? - I will play with the settings and try re saving it

if you right click on the link and select "save target as" you can save the PDF file to your hard disk

[tel]

bookmarked for a rainy day - nice one!

[bkupris]

A fair amount of work has gone into that..good one

[Lord_Azrael]

Thanks for that, I shall have a look later on, maybe it'll give me the confidence to have a go at that next.

[alanesq]

Originally Posted by Lord_Azrael

Thanks for that, I shall have a look later on, maybe it'll give me the confidence to have a go at that next.

Thats what I wrote it for - go for it :-)

Look at it this way; if you fail you have still learned a lot and have a much better understanding of what goes into making a longbow etc. and it only cost you £15 and a few hours playing

if you succeed you will feel so proud it will hurt !


I hope to one day add a "readers bows" section with people showing proudly the bow they have made ;-)