I can't thank you enough Mick I really can't. To be able to see how it was made and all the things you had to take into account to grt it made just makes it all the more special. Thank you again my friend it really does mean the earth to me. Fantastic video and editing as normal. Have a great Easter. Shane.

All your videos are not Just a tutorial of how to make a bow, it's a trip into a fantastic world. I breath the scent of the wood, I hear the wind, the noise of the tending string while tillering..I really feel there.. thanks for the nice video as usual!

3 years later, still watching your videos.

What a beautiful gift to be able to give! Shane, you lucky fecker! 😁

as a complete novice in every respect i have learnt a huge amount from you about so much . i pick my new leg up in a couple of weeks and my own bow up on monday . joined my local club and hope to learn from others as skilled and easy going as you . thank you for lighting the flame inside me to keep going . your a good man . England needs more good men like you .

Simplicity of action, lovely.

Brilliant Show, great work. Beauty Mick.

First point: methinks Shane is a very good friend! Second and more profound point: methinks Shane has a very good friend! Friendship is so special. Thanks Mick for sharing it with us. Best and may those special bows keep coming!

great job...I am an Italian re-enactist and bowmaker ... I learned to build bows thanks to you ... I always follow you and I learn with interest

Great job Mick, welcome to the next level. The arrow cam looks like so much fun!

This is mesmerising to watch! You did an amazing job!

MORE OUTDOOR BOW MAKING VIDEOS PLSSS!!!! I like the experience of watching the process more so than actually learning about bow stuff, sort of like your "longbow in a day" vid. Great lookin sausages btw :D

Mick, great work! Something passed to me that has helped me tremendously on hitting a weight target is to only draw to intended weight from short string to finished bow. If you perfect your tiller from shortly past brace to full draw and never pull more or less than intended draw weight on the string, then you will hit weight most of the time. I also tiller to about 10 lbs over end goal draw weight. My whitewood bows sometimes lose 3-5lbs shooting in, and sometimes the tiller changes shooting in as well. If it doesn’t, the additional weight is easily scraped evenly away. These are things you probably already know. But if not, they helped me a ton. Thanks for your videos mate. Watch every one.

What a lovely bow and video!!!!

Yay, success! 👏So pleased it turned out well for you and Shane. Lovely video, thankyou🌻

Fine bow, and your form also improved from what I see.

nice work you hawe come a long way in the process of building where beautiful bows !

I’d have to agree with you on your statement about tillering being the most difficult part. The worst is when you have a near perfect tiller but your chasing a certain weight and screw up the tiller in the process.

Well done, both bow and video. You set the bar high, my good man!

Superbly done Mick 🤗 and it looks gorgeous too 😊👍. I presume Shane is a very happy chap now 😎.

Sure are one humble bow maker. may not be a master yet or anytime soon but all the important elements are in place.....always a pleasure to watch few of these films.

Mick, as always, you works - bow AND video - are simply elegant. Would that I were Shane!

Nicely Done!

Your learning continues, as does ours. Thanks for sharing the journey.

As always, beautiful woodwork and a gorgeous video. Thanks for sharing your work.

Very fine work, sir.

Awesome arrow pov.

Lightweight maybe, but it looks super quick to me.. Nice bow for sure and don’t count yourself short on skill.. You are truly an artist and top notch bowyer from everything I’ve seen.

Awesome videos - Very insperational - Love keeping traditions alive

Beau-ti-ful!!!!

Excellent video as ever, thanks for sharing...!!!

Love the look of the boiled linseed oil finish on this! Think I'll use that for my longbow project.

It can be and always a challenge to achieve exact draw weight. That turned out great Mick🎯

Lovely Mick. Thank you for sharing.

Very instructive! I'm glad to see such a nice thing ! With consideration, Mihai!

I've been waiting for your new video. Well done Mick. This is a really beautiful bow.

Very nice

Really neat. I'm so glad you made this effort :)

Thanks Mike, another lovely bow to add to your bow making experience, I'm finding it very educational watching guys on all rungs of the ladder of this vast and skilled craft and like you most of them are happy to share their knowledge and experience, so I'm not far off having another go myself having failed the first time through lack of knowledge. On watching an expert shooter I'll take his advice which was for better accuracy try to keep the bow around the 50lb draw weight, also apparently a well tillered low weight bow is more effective than a more powerful bow poorly tillered.

Very Nice ash bow there Mick . Man ! You are getting good ( ; cheers .

Hi Mick, Firstly I would like to say how much I love your channel and how educational it has been to me. I was sad to see you had to stop bowmaking and archery. I am a novice as you are with a very keen interest in traditional archery, however I have never made a self bow like this. I have experience from making two or three bows out of boards (pine, and ash boards backed with carbon fibre tape). These bows were flat bows with glued on risers so are nothing like an English longbow that I would like to make. I have just felled my first ever ash stave and it is similar in diameter to the stave used in this video. It is almost perfectly straight the entire length of the stave. I hope to make an English longbow style bow from this, so with the traditional D section, somewhat similar to what you have built in this video. I am aiming for 45+ lbs at 28" but as it is my first attempt at a selfbow I will be happy with any working bow. I have a few questions I feel you could help me with: I see you don't often remove the bark from your staves when seasoning and a lot of the time leave it on the bow altogether or don't remove it until after tillering. I don't want a bow with bark on and am wondering should I remove all the bark from the stave now for the seasoning process or is this not a good idea. I have tried finding an answer online for this but haven't been able. My aim is like this bow, to get it seasoned as quickly as possible. With my preferred draw weight in mind have you any recommendations for dimensions? The stave is well over 90 inches in length now so I can really have it as long as I want, I feel like maybe a 78 inch bow would be best (76 inch nock to nock) . I also would like an idea for width and depth dimensions, I am feeling maybe a max width at the handle of 1.25 inches or should I go a small bit wider? also depth i dont really have any clue either, maybe a similar 1.25 inches and have the bow tapering out to 0.5 inches at the nocks. Finally, there are some unavoidable knots half way up the stave I am just wondering do you think I should perhaps incorporate these knots into my handle section as the bow will bend less through the handle and as such there will be less pressure on these knots, maybe helping prevent the bow from breaking because of them? Sorry to be an annoyance with this big essay but I really want to try my best to get this right. Thank you.

Nice video, well done :)

Awesome video nice of you to make a living history bow for your friend

That's an elegant bow, shoots well. Nicely done, sir!! :)

Cracking video Mick really enjoyed all of it. Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful bow; wonderful video!

Beautiful ash longbow

Wow Mick! That is beautiful Man!

Aaaaaaaand Mick does it again👏🏼

Great! It's a lovely bow.

Nice

Love your videos. I'm always impressed with the lack of string follow you end up with your bows. The only English style I've tried so far ended up with far more than I wanted. Perhaps red oak isn't suited for the design, but the far more likely culprit is my novice attempt at tillering.

Nice work Mick, I only asked you about a bow about a week or so ago, feel like I pestered you now 😂. Maybe one day I’ll be able to buy a yew warbow from you. Until then, I’ll settle for these vids. Good job 👍🏻

Your shooting form looks really good. Maybe it's time to re-visit your old buddy, Mr. Hi-vis vest. ;-)

I like your chanel, thank you so much for your job ☺

Mick, bloody fine job my friend. Ive never used ash before to make a selfbow. We have tons of it in my part of world, But also have osage and hickory or maple. Maybe I'll have to get a stave of ash a go. The tiller on the bow is spot on. Over all great job Sir

Beautiful

Great quality editing

Cracking job buddy ,lucky Shane ;)

yes more bow vids!!!!!!!

Great vid as always mate , yeeeeeeeeeeew

I would easily buy your bows -much love from brazil

Arrow cam is a winner, isn't it . Have you any idea of the amount of re-enactment bows you may now get requests for :) ...

That is a work of art I do love it. ps grandsons bow is progressing nicely not having scales I got him to lift part full paint cans until we found one he was just capable of lifting to shoulder high it seems to be fine I am guessing about 4 Kg I will hand select some 8 mm dowel for arrows and go get some turkey feathers from a friends farm lots of wild turkeys there. not sure of how to make heads yet maybe 22lr empty shells. Giving the bow a few weeks extra drying now while I recover from knee replacement surgery.

very nice

Sweet bow Mick I love it. Soon I will be building my first bow! The tillering is what is bothering me. I want to get it right.

He says he's not good enough to sell bows but we're sitting at home with a stick and paracord trying to make are own

I waited new video.)

Mick, I want to say thanks I have been wanting to make a long bow for a long time. Watching your videos have given me hope that I can do this. I have noticed your long bows are around 70-82 inches long what I don’t know what is you thickness and width of your bows. Going to buy my equipment today. How long do you let your wood dry before you work on it. To make a good bow that will last. Thanks for all your help.

Not going to lie, but I've been hoping you would start selling soon. I would love to have that bow in yew or osage for my son. He is fast becoming a good archer. Ok one for me too. haha.

I bet the draw weight goes up as it continues to season

I really like the look of that sinew for the bow grip. What diameter is it 1mm? I hear it's good for bow strings to. Thank you for all the videos Mike.

This comes in very timely Mick, I've got a couple of ash saplings I want to harvest for bows. I may need to let them dry more slowly though, as I want something a bit heavier in draw weight. Did you leave the bark on until the end, and then just scrape it off with your pocket knife? I guess that would be a good way to "chase the ring" as they say. Cheers!

Heard you can use alcohol to dry out wood faster. a lot of wood turners do it.

Have you thought about trying to make a recurve bow?

Beautiful bow Mick. I noticed that it looked like you had a sap groove on the bow. Did this affect the construction at all? PS you need to come over to the colonies (US) and teach us how to make a real longbow.

it is very easy to make an arc, You can make from the pine wood?

Another wonderful movie, Mick! OK. I’ll bite. How did you not affect the flight of the arrow or destroy a camera with Arrow-Cam? What Camera? Your list is useful but the camera bits mean nothing to me ( I like Rode, though). Best, Pete.

I like the bow. I must commend how you actually filmed first couple of minutes weeks ago and waited till today to actually publish video instead of doing each week part videos. Not that I have anything against videos in parts, it's just good to see a different approach sometimes. I also like the music, especially medieval themed one at the beginning and how you are experimenting with "quick drying technique". I don't ever use anything aside from it. Btw, it is also a cool coincidence that I am working on two ash bows myself. One is flatbow and is waiting to be fully dried (shaped and left alone -> quick drying) and other one is supposed to be warbow which I will start next week after Easter.

beautiful! though, I know lightweight bows don't develop much stringfollow, but how do you avoid it?

Mick, ive been a fan of yours for 2 years now and you inspired me to become a bowyer and it is thanks to you that i made my very first english long bow. Im from the middle east and yew was also once native to here (now it is almost extinct due to to use for chemotherapy drugs). I the only thing i have a problem with is how can you calculate bow dimensions to the draw weight you want? Any help would be appreciated. Best regards, Rashid.

Es un hermoso arco, me pregunto cuáles maderas de Costa Rica podría usar para confeccionar mi arco. Gracias por sus vídeos

Hi Mick. Nice bow. Is the artificial sinew good enough for the string. I always used Dacron B50. Thank you.

Would be interested to see what it chronos

If the bow is created while the wood is green would that cause it to crack down the road? I have lots of Ash in my area and I have taken an immense interest in English longbows and would like to create my own. I have found your channel immensely helpful in my search for information!

fantastic craftsmanship Mick. Always a please to watch your videos. Loved the arrow cam footage. What camera did you attach to the arrow? In all the bow hunting videos iv watched, iv never seen that done. Take care buddy

Is it more challenging making any bow from young small diameter trees? No experience myself but it would seem more difficult to find a clean stave in small trees that only recently gave up branches at 75 inches..

I feel the same way about making bows for other people. I dont want to sell them then have them break. Wat i have done is give them out as "test" shooters. Telling the friends i give them to to shoot them and tell me what happens. Coarse i shoot them myself first

You mention "Charecter bow" In your videos.....Can you explain what this means?

When you do feel comfy, please do give me a war bow please. Send your work out to the east coast of the states. Go worldwide 🌎 lol

Mick...what is the ignition point of your cap?

Did you put your make on it?

I would rather have one of your bows then one of bickerstaffe bows

Honestly i think u need a lot more brace height

i wod like a bow

I changed my name to Shane.

Good video But can you take a italian subs in all video's?

First

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