Great video showing a real craftsman at his work. Never shot a Two Tracks bow but I've heard great things. Their wool products look very warm and I'm sure are worth every penny.
You sir can make a really beautiful long bow . I’m not sure all the viewers on RU-vid understand the amount of skill that goes into making a functional work of art . Nice work
Nice craftsmanship, solid design. I like your approach to glue up, very controlled and economical and, no doubt, a lot less clean up afterwards. As long as fitment is spot on, no need for excess adhesive and it is clear that you embrace precision. Again, nice work and good hunting.
Incredible! I believe Chuck is one of the best bowyers out there. And you won't find a more friendly, patient gentleman. Truly a first class individual. Looking forward to saying hi to you Chuck at Kalamazoo! Steve
Lovely! The forward handle triangular design is 4000 years old at least and already shown on Egyptian pyramid walls. Looks like a perfect hand shake grip and even in the slowmo it seems dead in the hand! Great bow design!
Mate, that is a beautifull bow....I make bows in Australia as a hobbie, and experiment wirh different timbers. We have some beautifull native timbers, but it is a bit ofa guess as to how they hold up to the stresses of a bow. But I have designed my constructions, to hopefully minimise limb failures. Great to see your video.
I still fade out the deer scenes, only my opinion about your craftmanship is: OK, you are using modern hightech tools, but the result is a very beautiful and traditional looking bow. You`re really a master Bowbuilder in this age... and by the way, you have a perfect Viking beard also !!! ;) Thank you and Odins shelter over you! SKOL, Frank
WoooWeeeee, Man I gotta get me one of these! I'm just afraid if I did I would never pick up my Bear Grizzly or Kodiak again. You sir are a gift to the true archers world. The skill and attention to detail is impeccable. To top off a GREAT bow I love that you use a Flemish Twist for your string. May your arrows always fly true and hit there mark! Thanks for sharing.
beautiful craftsmanship. I just made a video making a bow with a tablesaw, I don't hold a candle to your craftsmanship. I love how you put the leather on for the grip, I'm struggling with the suede I put on mine, going to try it your way. you have a new subscriber. awesome video brother
I do not know whether there will be any interest or not, but a very large English yew tree has blown over in my customers garden in the UK. I have been given the job of cutting it and disposing of it. So i am going to take a bit of care and slice it up accordingly and try to get some really good staves out of it. The trunks are 18 inches in diameter. There are two trunks as the tree split into two growths as it was growing. They will need drying of course but it is an opportunity to obtain some good wood for future bows. It is going to be a few weeks yet but they will be under the title of "LONGBOW STAVES,ENGLISH YEW". I hope there are people interested and can be a bit patient with me.
If you take a look at my other videos you’ll see me shooting a bunch of deer with that exact bow. It’s 54” and 54lbs and shoots excellent. It’s a Two Tracks Ogemaw if you want to check it out on his website.
Mark Excell, like I’ve said before, title is so that people can find and enjoy the video. If it was titled, “Hybrid Flat Bow”, it would have 5 views because nobody would find it. That’s why the description explains it.
Trouble is that if anyone was researching how to build a longbow and didn't read the description they may have assumed the video was accurate to the title.
Mark Excell, I understand but if someone wants to build something like this, they are serious about woodcraft and will absolutely understand what they are seeing here. This is not a how-to on building a bow. It is an artful way of showing the craftsmanship that goes into building this type of bow. No discussion of materials, techniques or processes are depicted in this video. It is not useful for that. I shot and edited it to show the craftsmanship behind Two Tracks longbows and used the title to get the video seen by the masses.
David Harrison, you are correct sir. The title is so more people can see the video and find it. In the description it explains that it’s a hybrid flat bow.
Full Quiver Media my apologies , I must have missed that , old age is catching up with me ! ..... still a lovely bow . nice to watch people who truly care about what they are making .
Você é o gênio do arco,como devo fazer para adquirir um arco desde que você fez aí no vídeo moro no Brasil? Um grande abraço,que perfeição seu trabalho 🤝
I'm looking to buy a long bow to keep hopefully forever, is it true that you can buy a bow with a higher draw weight than you can currently manage and just half draw it to build up? Would half drawing it affect accuracy?
I've shot a few animals half drawing the bow. But, it's not ideal. You want to come to full draw and rest your draw hand against your face/head/chin (somewhere solid) to help steady your shot.
There is nothing more beautiful than watching a true craftsman at work. Where can I buy a Chuck Deshler longbow? I'm big into archery using mostly compound bows, but I've been wanting to get my hands on a longbow and do some traditional archery. Every longbow I see is factory made, or made in china, I would love to get my hands on a handmade longbow.
can you make a Mongolian style horse bow?? I've been looking for years but I can't find any that quite suit me I like the style you make your bows very fine work
gvanwormer1 That's even better! I just have a preference, that whenever you kill another animal it should be for purpose. I'm glad to hear you used it well!
Manufactured bows are mass produced using duplicator setups. These bows are custom built one at a time using some modern equipment. There are similarities between bows but there are also differences not normally found in manufactured bows. Instead of clamping a piece of wood in a jig and letting the machine work it, the bowyer uses his hands to manipulate what the machines do. Just another form of "hand making".
Joshua, I literally have 3 power tools in my shop. A drum sander for making custom laminations, Band saw, and Belt sander, and they all require me to manipulate the material to get the desired results. I started back in the very early 90's with making self bows with little more that a draw knife and a rasp. The laminated bow just requires a slight different process to craft parts from raw materials and then to speed up the ruff shaping process(I do need to be sort of efficient), the rest is much hand work with files, rasps and sand paper. Lots and lots of sand paper.
After the pressing/glue-up, you can shape the bow with hand rasps, files, and sandpaper (or random orbit sander). The form for the glue-up needs to be made with some fairly straight/true tools, but minimally a router w/ pattern bit, a jigsaw and drill...basic carpentry skills for the form. The internal lams and veneer materials for the bow are much easier to buy than make for most folks.
