The Art of Making Primitive Bows, Revised Edition

By D.C. Waldorf

This brand new edition of the classic work was just released in 1999. Here the secrets of bow making are revealed. The book is packed with clear drawings. Chapters include:

  • Tools you will need.
  • Woods for bow making including dozens of useable bow woods including Osage, yew, hickory, locust, hackberry and many more.
  • Bow design including the most basic American Indian bows to simple recurves, Turkish recurves and the English longbow.
  • Sinew backing.
  • Making bows strings.
  • Making arrows and quivers.
  • Understand why some designs work better than others.
  • 64 pages packed with basic how-tos.

$15. per copy

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