Hand Crafted - The Bowyer

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6 жыл бұрын

For as long as people have been shooting arrows, people have been making bows. In this episode, we’ll meet a craftsman from Powell River who specializes in the craft of the English Longbow.
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@vegantoxophilite2594 6 жыл бұрын

"Walking in the forest and found a yew tree" THE LUCKY BASTARD!

@jarodtutton2721 5 жыл бұрын

Vegan toxophilite lol what I thought

@DavidHinkle_as_SnowLuminos 6 жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful story, a beautiful family, a beautiful way to show all of us in this world... how to live.

@schalkbloem789 6 жыл бұрын

awesome video, the way you talk about your craft is clear that you love what you are doing.

@ArielaShines 2 жыл бұрын

I love this. Thank you for sharing.

@searchingforwonder Жыл бұрын

Fantastic. In answer to his query around an artist or a tool maker, I suspect there is a shift from tool maker to artisan as your skills grow and people start to seek your bow out specifically. I imagine your at the artisan stage by now. Wonderful looking creations. All the best.

@brianwade8649 Жыл бұрын

Awesome production!

@draven3838 4 жыл бұрын

This is the 4th Time I've watched this video ,and I still say you are a tool maker and a craftsman because a tool maker is a craftsman and vice versa ,keep up the great work, there aren't many of us that still take a tree and make longbows ,most have gone to laminated bows,thank you for this video and your beautiful creations.

@rodparsons521 5 жыл бұрын

How fortunate you are to live on land where you can go out and cut nice staves of Yew.

@omanafire 5 жыл бұрын

You can get a permit to harvest wood from public lands. It's how many folks in Oregon get firewood every year.

@robswine4079 6 жыл бұрын

Great and inspiring video, I look forward to owning one of these bows.

@birdman631 6 жыл бұрын

Just purchased a bow from him, never been so happy with it.

@githukawangugi 6 жыл бұрын

hey bro could you send me his contact info? I would love to get my hands on one too!

@birdman631 4 жыл бұрын

@@githukawangugi Sorry didnt see. Lol, one year later. Just google Ravenbeak Natureworks.

@danpires8142 4 жыл бұрын

What is his company name?

@wesgietz 6 жыл бұрын

For a time I was transported into your presence, Jamie and Jenna. This video, like the two of you, is an inspiration to follow the path of passion and creativity. Well crafted video, superbly crafted, bows, wonderfully crafted lives! Thank you.

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Wes.

@GrandDukeMushroom 3 жыл бұрын

very mesmerizing

@Theshadow38ish 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, I am doing the same thing right now, I live on the extreme eastern part of where Pacific Yew is found in Western Montana.

@chais1111 3 жыл бұрын

What a spot, Heaven on earth.

@alejandrobarrenechea4376 5 жыл бұрын

Really inspiring, thanks...

@ethan073 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video

@f4tfreddiescat 6 жыл бұрын

I saw my Ravenbeak bow, Mithra, on the Longbow shop website and it felt as if the bow chose me. Even if my archery isn't very good, I still enjoy the smooth action of this well made bow. Whether you think of it as a tool or as an artistic creation, they are really beautiful bows.

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

Good to hear. We often feel like we are just the holders till the bows find their way home! Glad Mithra found a good one.

@SwiftwoodBows 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Jamie makes beautiful bows. Some day I'd like to make it up from Oregon to check out his shop.

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

Door's open!

@5tonyvvvv 6 жыл бұрын

Jamie is a great Bowyer, and a Nice guy!

@PabloContrerasFotoviajante 6 жыл бұрын

nice work

@blakegundry 6 жыл бұрын

Really amazing video; I am so happy to see bow making take such a popular leap. In the future I hope to see more videos like this, well made, and accurate. Great work Jamie, my father and I soon are hoping to get to one of your workshops up in Canada form here in Oregon.

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Blake...Thanks very much - and it'd be great if you and your dad could make it up here. Setting our 2018 dates soon!

@DragonOfTheRiver 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful and enjoyable video! I've followed Ravenbeak for a while now and they make beautiful bows. They also sell great staves for building one yourself.

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@michaelfrymus 5 жыл бұрын

I like these videos. Like mini docs. How you find these people? Id love to film videos like this

@robertbruce1479 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool video. I have one of these bows (I love it) and I know Rhea (the one with the name being burned in).

@kp.co.6074 6 жыл бұрын

Very nice video, I've always considered my bows to be forms of art but I can understand your consideration of it more a weaponry crafting too. Never had my hands on yew, have always wanted to give it a try but I just have a hard time justifying spending so much to get a stave as it doesn't grow here in Ohio. I do enjoy making tri-lam elb tho. They're alittle different then the mollogebet or American flat bows I've built in the past.

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

Understand about the choice of wood. We don't use osage for the same reason!

@soniccigars1266 5 жыл бұрын

Back when tools had to be made by hand every tool was a work of art.

@draven3838 3 жыл бұрын

I work with osage orange, ash and hickory for my bows ,. Yes we are artist of the bowyer world, because not many people make stick bows anymore

@johnjriggsarchery2457 6 жыл бұрын

Hi. This was great... It's a little known secret that we still get bows stuffed into all the corners of the house even if we sell them. Have a great day

@ErnieBlackrose 4 жыл бұрын

A bowyer who loves what he is doing. Great!!! But why do some idiots press the thumb down button here? Envy or what?

@Soviless99 4 жыл бұрын

wish my dad taught me this. im an aspiring bowyer

@alexturner2126 Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful film, beautiful craft and such a idyllic life but please! Get yourself a real hatchet!!!

@RavenbeakBows Жыл бұрын

What do you mean? I have many fiskars hatchets and they have never let me down! Also. They keep a keen edge on them!

@Mr.56Goldtop 6 жыл бұрын

Are they for sale?

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

seattwa. We do have a website where we sell stock bows and take orders for custom bows. Most of the bows we produce these days are for custom orders. Our website is www.ravenbeak.com

@mementomori4355 5 жыл бұрын

Ravenbeak Natureworks Speaking as an Englishman, I am delighted to see that our historical legacy is alive and well all the way across the pond with our US brothers and sisters. By the way in answer to your question regarding whether bowyers here in England back then were seen as artists or people creating a tool? Not only was it a legal requirement for peasants to train with and be proficient with the longbow, it was also a requirement for them to be able to build them 😊 . God I love and am so proud of English bowyer and archery history.

@lupuscorvus841 3 жыл бұрын

Medieval England: "Any man who is unarmed will be arrested!" The UK in the 21st Century: "Oi! You go dat kitchen noife loiscense?" "Did you just make a fist mate? That's a 12 year sentence!"

@germanictradlifewarriorarc6414 3 жыл бұрын

Why yew bow is very expensive is there any reason?

@chais1111 3 жыл бұрын

Good yew for making bows is hard to get hence the cost.

@RavenbeakBows Жыл бұрын

Yes. The raw staves themselves are very hard to source and take a long time to season. Let alone the time and expertise of making the.

@moonchild2686 5 жыл бұрын

GREAT Vid. And great Story. But please dont shoot on trees ;-)

@kangahmtl2n 4 жыл бұрын

Uhmazin

@rodparsons521 6 жыл бұрын

I hope you are planting more than you cut.

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

Our wood is salvaged from the logging industry, but you do have a good point. I wish yew was one of the replanted species within the industry. Unfortunately it is seen as a waste wood

@johnroberts3723 3 жыл бұрын

That's the down side of the dream!.

@Stillnapie 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnroberts3723 Oh because he is using SO much timber.... Good Lord...

@harbinger479 6 жыл бұрын

price tag says its more art than tool, they are beautiful, but it doesn't take a master craftsman to build one either. may as well charge me 200 bucks for a pair a grandmas hand made mittens. but im probably just ignorant and bitter i cant afford one.

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

Perhaps if your grandma harvested all the wool by hand, carded, then spun it, and then knit those mittens they would would be worth $200... :)

@harbinger479 6 жыл бұрын

yea so thats funny because my family actually raises sheep for wool and she has done that and didnt charge anyone 200 dollars. craftsmanship is not so rare that you can afford to be so snarky bud

@RavenbeakBows 6 жыл бұрын

Harbinger...sorry that you read it with snarky in mind. I was being serious, not snarky. And added the happy face in the hopes of you seeing that. I legitimately was suggesting that when you do all the pieces, there is a lot of value in the product. I have seen beautiful hand spun wool pieces that cost in that range and are worth every penny. No, you don't have to be a master craftsman to build a bow . And we encourage everyone who's interested to give it a go. It's a love we have for the building and the sport. It also feeds our family.

@davidharrison6615 5 жыл бұрын

harbinger 80 to 100 man hours to make a first class bow .plus you need the skill to do it . its not like learning a bit of joinery to mend a step . a first class stave is around £500 plus pounds so if you add it up they are cheap .

@jamieparkinson2044 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone can make a bow but it takes a lot of effort and time to make them and the wood alone to make the bows would probably be around £2-300