The Backyard Bowyer: The Beginner's Guide to Building Bows Author: Nicholas Tomihama | Language: English | ISBN:
B004PGO2XG | Format: EPUB
The Backyard Bowyer: The Beginner's Guide to Building Bows Description
With over 300 step-by-step pictures, the Backyard Bowyer is geared for the beginning bowyer, backyard hobbyist, and anyone who has ever pondered building a wooden bow.
Easy to read and follow steps go down to even the smallest detail in the design and construction of basic archery bows. Learn to craft fine wooden bows without huge investment in equipment and materials, and without being bound by location and limited workspace.
Learn to construct:
A classic target flat bow, an English Longbow suitable for hunting, and even your own strings and arrows for traditional and
primitive archery.
- File Size: 2853 KB
- Print Length: 196 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0983248109
- Publisher: Levi Dream Publishing (February 24, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004PGO2XG
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,258 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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In this immensely practical book, Nicholas Tomihama shows, step by step, how to make a bow out of an ordinary piece of hardwood lumber, including: choosing the board; shaping the bow's the outline; "tillering" -- the heart of making a wood bow; and adding a glued-on handle and glued-on nock reinforcements. As a bonus (he calls it his "bonus track"), he even shows how to make a string and arrows for your new bow. I originally bought it because Tomihama was the first author who explained to me that a bow gets thinner or narrower toward its tips in order to spread the bending force evenly along the limb. You can read this part of the book, and many others, with Amazon's "Look Inside!" feature. Read the back cover. It is honest when it says "Easy to read and follow steps go down to even the smallest detail in the design and construction of basic archery bows."
If you intend to build a wood bow, you may want to read other books, like The Traditional Bowyer's Bible (volumes 1 through 4). But you must read this one.
By penachron
I've just recently gained an appreciation and fascination of wooden bows while on a hunting trip with my uncle. He uses a fiberglass bow when he goes bow hunting and we began talking about building our own bows to make our hunting experience a bit more fun. We loaned several books on creating bows from the local library but they were all far too difficult to understand for beginners like ourselves. When I found this book I snatched it up right away and my uncle and I have not been disappointed. The book is very easy to understand for beginners like ourselves and the included designs were perfect for our needs. The book even goes into how to construct your own arrows. This book has been an invaluable guide and thanks to the instructions inside we'll soon be hunting with our own custom built bows and arrows. Highly recommended. A+
By D. Lafferty
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