Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37310 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
"For anyone interested in the bow as a hunting tool. . . endless fascination."--"Field & Stream"

Customer Reviews

a good aid
This book is helpful to the beginning bowyer, but it gets technical quickly, but it is well written, and helps you understand the reason bows do what they do. The section on bow performance and design is very good at getting the fundamental principles into your head, but it helped me, i felt to have read a basic bow building book previously, which was a book called Indian Bows and arrows, the old way. its on amazon, it helps feed the information in slowly, rather than overloading you with it too quickly

good for anyone wanting help on making bows
This volume covers making bows from boards, with particular emphasis on selecting suitable wood, eastern woodland bows, ancient european bows, composite (horn and sinew etc) bows, bending wood by steaming and heat, recurves, string making, steel broadhead hunting points, and a short section on quivers, is a good read but gets technical in places so helps if you are familiar with archery terminology. It would have been nice to have colour photos but it makes up for this with the sheer number of black and white ones.

A must read for every bowyer
If your into traditional bow building, then The Traditonal Bowyer's Bible Volume 1 - 4 is an absolute must read. A lot of profound and helpful information that covers many topics of traditional bow building. Master bow builder like Tim Baker, Jim Hamm, Jay Masser or Paul Comstock share their wisdom with the interested reader.
A GREAT BOOK !!!!