Bow Building Course
Bow Building Basics
Bow building tools
How long and wide to make your bow
Osage roughout
Cutting nocks
Introduction to finding bow wood
Tips for chasing a ring
Bow handle and cutting the shelf
Belly Laminates
Stave Selection
Aligning staves
Basic Tillering
Bow handle and riser
What to look for in osage end grain
Osage layout
Reflexed tips
Handle layout
Heat Treating Osage
The Hollow Limb Design
Recurving Osage
2 Piece take down bow
Takedown Part 1
Takedown Part 2
Takedown Part 3
Joining billets
Two Piece Bow Redux (WATCH THIS!)
White wood bows
Hickory layout
Hickory Roughout
Heat Treating Hickory
Stringline Layout
Sinew backing the bow
Sinew backing part 1
Sinew backing part 2
How to build a sinew backed bow
Bow strings
Flemish twist bow string
Primitive sinew bow string
Shop talk
Leaving bow strung all day
Flatbow vs recurve- what’s the difference?
Salvaging a cracked bow
Tips for aligning a bow with heat
Recurving to add weight and fix tiller
Heat bending difficult osage
Arrow point brush
Splitting off belly wood quickly
Limb Thickness vs Width
Salvage a broken bow
Tips on Bowyer’s knot
Using Calipers for Micro Tillering
Fixing negative Tiller
Shooting Tips – internal trigger
Adding Weight to a Bow
Just me shooting my bow
Moisture Content