How to Make Your First Long Bow from a Sapling. Light Weight Longbow for Beginners

How to Make Your First Long Bow from a Green Sapling. Light Weight Self Longbow for Beginners. Here's a simple project for any of you that are aspiring bowyers - a very lightweight self bow in the style of an English Longbow designed to help beginners achieve their first success. I show you how to make longbow from scratch - turning a freshly felled sapling into a shallow-limbed 'longbow' to give experience understanding wood, bowyer's tools and aids as well as an insight into that perpetual bow making challenge - tillering a bow. The bow is deliberately made very light to help you achieve your fist success. Failure in the early attempts at bow making can be very discouraging and using green wood is a quick and easy way to gain some experience. Using green wood also reduces fear of failure. Making your first bow from a long seasoned and possibly expensive wood can be nerve racking experience which often results in apprehension - the fear of making a mistake. But green wood seems to alleviate this worry - after all it's easy to find green wood so you can proceed with more confidence knowing that getting another piece of wood will be quite easy. Good luck with your first bow and longbow archery!

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I'm Mick Grewcock, retired from business and now self-learning the arts of longbow- and film-making. Join me in my light-hearted quest for knowledge as I learn to combine the ancient woodworking craft of bow-making with digital videography and film making - I'd be delighted to have you for company on this bizarre journey combining digital and primitive technology.

I have a deep passion for the medieval English longbow, the great warbow - the powerful version of the English longbow that earned its fearsome reputation during the Middle Ages, notably the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the ferocious battle fields of France and England during the One Hundred Years War (and in the hands of Robin Hood too!). It is an iconic weapon - and to this day, exudes heritage and awesome power.

Lots of bow making on my channel - do browse, view, like comment and subscribe. I have videos on making yew, hazel, elm and blackthorn longbows as well as many others related to primitive and instinctive archery, target archery arrow and bow making. In my videos you will see and hear what it is like to self learn bow making. I am self-taught as a bowyer - learning the hard way to work wood to make a bow - and still discovering every day. Sometimes I fail, sometimes I succeed; but I'm always learning. I also explore the UK's rural landscape, sometimes in search of bow making woods, discovering survival skills, sometimes in search of the glories of this landscape.

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Useful book for aspiring bowyers amzn.to/2JnZoDQ

Some basic bow-building tools:

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Bear Grylls Machette
Inexpensive hand axe
Bahco wood rasp
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Majority of my filming is done with Panasonic GH4 & GH5 4K cameras. I edit using iMovie and Final Cut Pro and use a MacBook Pro and iMac 27".

My Film Making Gear:
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Koolertron 1M slider
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Videos edited with Final Cut Pro X and iMovie
Coloured with Pixel Film Studios Cinematic LUTs
MacBook Pro 15"
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