Making a Maple Longbow: From Tree to Bow 

Downloadable build notes and diagrams dansantanabows.com/maple-longbow-build-notes/

Oh man oh man. The relationship between a man and his sword and between him and his bow! The bow becomes your arm. I feel it. When you make your own bow, and you flex it and draw it. You are able to feel every weak spot and strong spot, you able to feel how far it can be drawn back. It's like you can feel every fibre in that bow. You can feel the arrow float off that bow in slow motion. So amazing. This content captures that feeling and show cases it. Someone won't know the feeling until they become one with the bow by crafting it themselves. You've outdone yourself Sir. I feel it.

Can’t get enough of your content, Dan. Excellent craftsmanship and professional editing and camera work. Thank you for sharing your talent with us

The best soundtrack of all RU-vid videos....absolutely beautiful

Great bow and video! Glad to see you back!

Love your work - both the video and the bow! Immaculate as usual. And a huge vote of approval on Tung Oil for the finish!

Your cousin has great fingering techniques. Reminds me of a music teacher I had once at a conservatory years ago.

A masterpiece, in every way. Thank you for everything you do for this craft

Everything about this video is first class. Very well done.

After your videos, I get an urge to go make a bow... Thanks!

Great video. The finishes on your bows are amazing. I liked how this one looked like it was made of antler when you were done. Fantastic. I also like the vice you made to hold your bows. I tried to make one but I just couldn’t get it right. Keep making videos man, they are greatly appreciated.

These are always beautifully made videos, and they work. I have made them. His flat bow in maple is excellent.

A man and a craft to emulate. Nice production.

Great bow

17:12 I love that face when you have done something you are proud of. Love your work and keep doing what you do 🙂

Love your content. Always gets me excited to work on my own projects. Keep it up!

absolutely love your works and videos!! your work is professional and your content shows how much you are enjoying the process. which makes us enjoy it too. Please keep up uploading new ones, can't wait to see more!

Absolutely beautifully done Dan! Always a pleasure to see your videos and your craftsmanship on display. Bravo! And your cousin is an extremely gifted guitarist as well...

This man truely deserves more subs

Comparing several staves side by side and explaining why you chose this one over the other ones would have helped immensely. I'm beginning to believe that it didn't which one because they are all going to become bows anyway. Excellent work.

Stunning content. Love it ! Keep doing more please=))

Very good, love your workshop.

dude this music is amazing, bow too.

Much respect, dig what you’re doing and your promo is something else man. Inspiration from creation.✊🏼

Thanks for all the great videos with so much information, also very relaxing. I'm Kiowa/Choctaw and your help is greatly appreciated in my making of my ancestor's traditional bows. Thanks so much.

Awesome video! So much valuable information in this, really has me excited to try making my own bow as I've just taken up archery a few months ago and I'm absolutely hooked 😄

Love your content man, I love your cousins music too I’m a musician too, your passion for making bows is evident and it relaxes me watching I’m sure one day I will try it too. What’s great also is the scenery in which you build what a place to make bows id love to learn more about the place and if you make a living from your amazing bows. Thanks Don

Nice

Another great video. Love your cousin’s music!

Great work

I'm inspired. I use maple for so many things, and I use all species in what I create, whether it's in furniture or just simply making rods to use for friction fire starting. Dan thank you.

Great video! The bow looks great as well. I have three nice maple logs ready to be split into staves and seasoned. One of the bows might wind up looking like yours with any luck.

What a magnificent bow! Looks and shoots extraordinary! Kudos, Dan

Thqank you so much for the Video and the downloadable notes and diagrams. I really love them. Im doing such notes and diagrams for my bushcraft projects too. Unfortunately I am very bad at drawing.

Great video! Cómo siempre Daniel! Te doy las Gracias por poder colaborar!

Good job and imazing work 👏👏👏👏 congratulatiosn from Brasil ! I Love traditional archery 👏👏👏👏🏹🏹🏹👍🙏

THANKS VERY INFORMATIVE 👍👍👍

After I finish building our house, I am going to make a bow. It will give me a reason for buying carving hand tools. I will probably get more enjoyment in building it as opposed to using it. Cheers from Canada, and thank-you for the great content.

You do good work dude. I like your relationship to wood and I’ve slowly begun my first attempt, I’m cool if it fails “it’s expected to, so i just grabbed a knotted piece of dry yellow birch. It’s been interesting

Great work! You should consider running on site workshops.

Can you post a video of how you sharpen and hone your drawknives? Your videos are superb! Very classy! Thanks!

Watching for the 3rd time today✨

super😍

After 3 real goes, finally got one to shoot an arrow. Broke 3 more roughing them out too fast. Made with a hatchet, rasp and knife as a scraper, tiller is probably bad, but it shoots, and at 38.8#@24", its pretty quick with a paracord string and heavy arrow. I was actually surprised how hard it hit. I'm a little scared to tiller a rounded belly, only just made a flat one.

Great video! A little off topic but curious to know more about your target - can you tell us how it was made? Seems simple and sturdy!

In the shot of all the staves side by side was there some birch (or similarly barked tree) way on the right?

I have access to a lot of multistemmed very straight yews of varying thickness. Should I look out for a stem I can quarter? Or can I use halves or even the whole stem?

How good is maple compared to hickory and oak to make bows ?) If maple is any it would be a lot cheaper then oak.

I love it, great bow and video! I have some maple too, how did you preserve the bark on the back like that?

Great video. Do you have any experience making a bow with dogwood?

Doing this right now with a real * THICC* red oak board. Where I can get a nice thick shape out of it for a nice heavy bow

Very nice video.and music. And drawings are very helpfull. Is the bow more narrow in the handle section than further out? And what is your purpose for that. Greetings from Denmark.

Do you ever use a curved stave? I have a 8 foot yew branch that is curved like a already strung bow. I think I can split it in two staves, a reflex and a deflex. The branch is shaped just like this bracket ). Have you ever done this before? Or is it a waste of time ?

I'm a little confused with longbows. Should I go for a full compass tiller where the entire bow is one continuous bend? Or should I go for a more elliptical shape with stiffer handles/inner limbs & more flexible outers? I thought longbows could only call for elliptical since the limbs aren't as wide, there for calling for more thickness taper and less inner limb bending. Can't get much info on longbows, and it seems people like to refer to "full compass" as circular which is also quite confusing

When you use the weight at 11:00, how many times are you supposed to draw it in that check? Why do you draw it that many times? Just curious!

Hello! Tell me please what type of wood or what tree did you cut? Thank you

What’s going on at the 6:30 mark? What are the dark spots you’re chiseling away?

Maple? did not know it could be used. This is in Arizona?

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I just made my first long bow ever its made out of maple all i have to do is sand it stain it and seal it now

can i use red oak for this bow

How long woule my bowstring be?

20:14 man, you need hardly level up how you stay, body shooting position is week, you need straight back, head up, shoulders down... Very good video and channel!

You heat treat the back?

Well I used drywall fibre glass tape and guess what guy’s it is rubbish going with thick cloth this time

Very pleasant beautiful video, but as far as a how to goes, what and why did u do everything you did, why u used the tools u used, why the dark stain on the back etc. This is more of a skilled bowyer get off video than a how to

RuneScape irl

Great bow, and I know you provide the blue prints, but I wish your videos were less ASMR and more instructional.

Yeah wow that was just a fantastic viewing experience

I see you doing the work on the that piece of wood but you do not explain anything or say anything it's just silence you're not showing how you look at the grain of the wood to see how it works for tethering or what you're doing to cut it or lay it out you're not doing any of it you're just making the bow. This you need to explain yourself in detail

Great videos and beautiful results. I have a problem. Military imjury with resulting plate in neck and no left collar bone. Can no longer pull anything over 20 lbs. Also cant turn head over 15 deg so cant shoot with left arm out straight to left reducing power further. Can only shoot old Indian kids Boy Scout fibreglass 15 lb bow from 1958. Tried to make board bow but as i got it down to 18 to 20 lbs it looked nice. Tillering great. But broke at handle on 5th shot. Fiberglass tape back. I wonder if you ever go too far in reducing weight, like a table that rocks which you trim leg by leg until you get a serving tray, and wind up with a bow way lighter than you planned? Like the 35 lb becomes 20? If so please give me an email before using it for firewood. Just had to leave my woods and fields in MO to retirement HOA small home. At 78 not much time left to get it right working in back yard. So i could do final sanding and stain etc if you have an "ooops!" laying around in firewood pile. Thanks. Karl signalcorpschief@gmail