Bow Building for Beginners - Build Your First Primitive Bow

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2 ай бұрын

A perfect first guide for first time bow makers. Ryan walks through the process giving detailed, yet quick and concise information directed towards beginner bow builders.
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@Bullseyearchery Ай бұрын

This is probably the most informative bow building video on KZfaq. Thank you, sir.

@matthewmememaker2848 Ай бұрын

You taught me to build a bow when I was just 13 years old. It might have been mystery wood , low poundage, and later broke. But that’s was the funnest bow I ever had.

@grady7389 Ай бұрын

I seen the bow you made

@grady7389 Ай бұрын

I seen the bow you made

@naterodgers5851 Ай бұрын

Ryan Gill is the best. Idk where I’d be without him in my primitive journey. He’s got me making my own bows, knapping my own points and shooting my own arrows. My only wishes from him are more videos and a hog hunt with him sometime. I really appreciate everything

@bradthebrewer5732 Ай бұрын

Thank you for putting this video out there for free!

@billhamilton5949 Ай бұрын

Thanks Ryan, I really enjoy all of your videos, made my first "hand carved maple" bow at about 10 yrs. of age.I violated front and back growth rings ( green wood) and it broke at a hinge on the first draw, but it sure was the most fun. Learned a lot since then and still learning at 73 years. Thank you again.

@6oc2012 6 күн бұрын

Amazing Video ! Thank you for teaching us.

@pierceschmeichel8711 Ай бұрын

Perfect, very thorough! This is definitely everything a beginner needs to know. Great job, Ryan!!

@MrToband Ай бұрын

GREAT video dude!, I'm just finishing my first bow, I started a couple months ago taking my time and learning as I go. Watched a bunch of Clay Hayes videos and 1 Ed Scott video, not taking anything away from those guys they're great bowyers but man I wish I'd have seen this video first, great stuff lots of information

@huntprimitive9918 Ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@davidbrand5326 Ай бұрын

Good job, Ryan , I watched with one of the young men I work with, and he was enthralled with the part we got to see. he’s very excited to make his own bow now. He realizes it’s not just me that makes bows, but somebody famous on the Internet too.😂👍👍🏹🏹🏹 keep up the good work!

@jordanaycox1984 Ай бұрын

best bow instruction video I've ever seen.

@user-ug5sb6qg1u Ай бұрын

Glad to be a subscriber, this is by far one of the best channels on yt. It gives more knowledge than ten or twenty other channels I could name combined.

@blackhatch46 Ай бұрын

Amazing video. Really summarizes the book and serves as a great companion to it.

@mrflytyerpinewood3708 Ай бұрын

Thank you! Very inspirational. Thank you for taking the time and effort explaining all the details.

@bogdanprd4381 Ай бұрын

Bravo Ryan! Superb😊

@robertcarte95 Ай бұрын

Good stuff. Always enjoy watching!

@focusofthefuture8689 Ай бұрын

awesome stuff

@lundysden6781 Ай бұрын

great teaching!

@manuelwebe Ай бұрын

Very interesting and very good tutorial. Bow making is a very craftsman-specific art. Yours is perfectly fine, but people should understand that bow making is a DO IT BY YOURSELF craftsmanship and that they would learn and improve by actually MAKING MANY BOWS. Recommending or discouraging the use of some tools (vice, rasp, hatchet, draw knives. motor tools) is totally craftsman-dependent. I have seen perfectly functional and beautiful bows made with just a parang machete or a hatchet, or with the help of band saws and other motor tools. Go make some bows by yourself, blow some away by making silly mistakes, and LEARN BY DOING, not by watching this or that KZfaqrs. Thanks for sharing!

@WildernessStudy Ай бұрын

I have a question for the community about their thoughts on found arrowheads: leave them where you found them? Turn them into a tribal elder or cultural center? Use it to hunt with respect to the craftsman who created it? Many thanks!

@fishmaniachannel Ай бұрын

Very knowledgeable vedio👌

@NOTMYCIRCUSNOTMYMONKEY Ай бұрын

Thanks Excellent Video to make Bow🎉🙏👏

@janrobertbos Ай бұрын

...you`d have made a GREAT teacher...😀

@billhamilton5949 Ай бұрын

He is a great teacher.

@andrewbarritt8599 Ай бұрын

Great video! I've got a tree out back in mind too.

@denisestarr2314 Ай бұрын

My first hikory bow , I cut in spring. Varced it into a beutiful shape , it was not completely dry , I started tilling it to soon . I believe i ruined it . I will star another one soon . And I will let it dry a year , Was a set back .

@DannySanders-nj8xn Ай бұрын

Just for future reference, the sap tube is called pith. Great video. 🙃

@ImNotLuthien Ай бұрын

I imagine the worst part of being a beginner at this, is the constant anxiety of fucking the entire thing at any moment lol I have a functional bamboo traditional bow my parents gave to me when I was like 10, because I´m a die hard LOTR fan, but I´ve been thinking about building my own one, looks complicated as hell, but lets give it a try.

@radagast6682 Ай бұрын

We only have Bitternut Hickory around here, and it grows in a spiral. The Hophornbeam also grows with a twist. The Bitternut Hickory also splits like american elm. 😝

@YawasopJudah Ай бұрын

I live in Washington state and the only wood that I can get kinda easy is cherry wood (very marginal at best made a very low poundage and doesn't cast very well) i have a bunch of big leaf maple on the property but have heard bad things it. So I've been making them from lumber ie. Home Depot 😮‍💨

@PrimitiveArchery6 Ай бұрын

The tiller of My recent short bow came out kind of iffy. Good time to go through the basics.

@firestorm8471 Ай бұрын

I have a Hickory stave about half again as large as the one you are showing and about a foot longer. I also have a dogwood stave about the same size. The idea was a Hickory bow and a butt load of dogwood arrows. Thing is, that was about 15 years ago when I stashed them away in my basement.. I just found them again and they are like STONE ! So my question is, can wood be too dried and hard for a bow?

@akilanan5490 Ай бұрын

Any Indian woods suggestions please?

@zilla8232 Ай бұрын

Also checkout a Japanese wood rasp.

@WildernessStudy Ай бұрын

@zacherywadsworth1934 Ай бұрын

Leave them, most tribal communities will say the same. I know for my tribe we were told by the elders to leave them and not bother them.

@bdlit7165 Ай бұрын

I've heard natives preferred to use fire killed or lightning struck. Any thoughts?

@dougtuck1449 Ай бұрын

Question we had to have al the ash removed, and there is a huge tree laying on the ground it's been there for a year ,if I use a chainsaw to cut it lengthwise in order to get it manageable to split will it work after laying that long or just stick with a hickory stave I have, this ash would have at least 20 bows in it it's just to big to split without sawing it, maybe laying on the ground rui ed it, there is another piece 20 inches in diameter they threw on a brush pile, hast touched the ground if I can drag it out with my truck, it's 15 ft long 20 inches diameter, just wondering?

@user-ug5sb6qg1u Ай бұрын

Strip the bark, there's a decent chance the beetles and wood wasps have gotten to them already or if you get moderate rainfall there might be fungus underneath the bark. Best bet is to use something newer.