LeopoldUlysees ......awwww Leo, you so easily impressed. Wait til you see him make a grass net a capture one of his farts and paint it green! Then you’ll be really impressed.☝️
come a long way since! still a great video - helping me get hyped for a trad bow building course this coming week with the Roots School in Vermont, USA
If Will Lord came out of the Yew Hedgerow, introduced himself in full and said he'd make me a bow - I'd be ecstatic! He looks like a medieval warrior in the wrong outfit, but the name fits perfectly!
Nice work Will. I have made serviceable bows from wood still in the round simply by taking a bit of the belly out on each limb. I've used yew, hazel and sycamore, and they all shot well enough green. It's surprising how,simple,you can make them. I would choose double twisted rawhide,for a string if I had it. Strings are always a problem.
I am going to be out of action for a while but, theres always a silver lining. I have so much of your fine content to catch up with, how I am looking forward to the coming months. Yet another fascinating and inspirational video, thank you for sharing Will ✊️♠️✨
All that work and it snapped 2 seconds into the hunt lol. fact of the matter is though you would have had that arrow in your target and could have eaten with that one shot, great stuff
Hi, may I use part of videos in order to include them in an amateur documentary, non profitable, which relates to the neolithic life in the mediterranean. Obviously you will be credited
Love your videos Will, I've learned a lot. Was wondering though, what makes this bow Neolithic exactly, and different form a regular longbow? regards, Stephen
wood is occasionally preserved in anaerobic or frozen archaeological deposits and many bows have been found from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120629142412.htm
My guess is, that during prehistoric times if there were cave men/women around at that time, and they wandered upon a large flint rock they wouldn’t have thought “Oh my I should make a long flexible stick that I could bend by attaching a string that I got to find material to make a string to make the long stick bow so I can attach a shorter stick with pointy end with glued on eagle feathers to make short pointy stick fly straight so I could shoot the pointy short stick into a lethargic small animal....OR........I could just take this hard heavy rock and batter the shit out of that skunk over there so me and my goofy cave woman can eat and then make wonderful cave love before sun up.” Nothin like eatin some skunk and then poundin some skunk before nightfall.
Indeed, i have made green stick bows great for small game, and like i mentioned in my video, they may break as they dry out and such but then again they may not according on the wood you have chosen.I have made a nice ash bow tho used a knife and hatchet, tho sanded it after and have used it for years now. Great video and thanks for sharing.
Thanks Will, I've also been making lots of bows lately and have sort of lost my drive, but this video has given me new inspiration and perspective. By the way I love your tools, I just might make myself some like that. Thanks again, -Debra
Impressive, Will. Nicely done. I particularly enjoyed your sense of good humor. And with that, may I once again raise a toast to Mirthful Irreverence Everywhere. [ Cultivate A Sense Of Wholesome Emotional Hygiene ]
You knowledge is impeccable,I've made a Osage orange bow out of green wood and it worked very well ,as it aged it became stronger in draw weight and I used chert flakes to thin it to lighten the draw ,as a 120# Osage bow is a beast to draw compared to yew and hickory bows
...amazing video! thanks for sharing... the axe in the beginning looks really good...and it´s really helping to see what may work better by trying! awesome... did you do the axe yourself aswell? i really think you´re a master...the way you work those stonetools is just brilliant... i just did put up a video of making a bowdrillfire-kit with only stonetools and it was really hard work!! ;-)
In addition to the head placement, it looked a bit like the axe haft was too big around, especially for your top hand. Have you found that grip style to be more efficient?
+Gunters Forge knots are never good in a bow and neolithic man probably figured this out via trial and error. i think he used whatever he could find for a more authentic feel
@Holy_Shit_; According to your mindset, you are stupid if you don`t know the name of that/a tree? You probably know all the names of both trees and plants worldwide.. "There are no stupid questions, Only stupid answers". Heard that one before, Stupid genius?
Robert Langley... If I`m not up to the task "to try to make a coherent statement" Why THF don`t you answer the Q, instead you write another Stupid comment? And all you manage to come up with is namecalling..? Btw, WTF has weed to do with to do with ur idiotic answer?
Well, didnt see the amazing skill in this. Have you seen picture og the holmegaard bow? Found in Sweden, and dated throu c-14 to 8000 years old. And that bow is fare more sofistcated then the bow in this video. Because they didnt chop the bow to shape, they skraped it. Learn the technologi if your going to play stoneage man. (Look at the channel primitiv technologi, and you will learn it. There are still people living in the stoneage, so its not lost technologi)
At 6:00 those long and curvy wood shaves are made by sharp metal... But I understand thats an educational video and got what I exacly expected from it. 5 out of 5
Ra Leo actually you can get shavings like that using flint/ obsidian. I have done some primitive wood carving and with a sharp flake you can produce very fine feathers.
Ra Leo try it if you have the time and resources! It's very satisfying to create something from natural materials using natural materials. Anyway have a nice day/night
I love how these predictably long haired and bearded "original" people re/create stone age stuff by starting to drive a jeep to get the materials !priceless !
Fake. Show you cutting a tree in beginning, cut scene, then your work on a perfectly sawed twig. You use an flint adze for a minute, CUT SCENE, n you have perfect shavings on the ground. Lol cool ya made a bow but Bullshit on your methods playing it off like ya did it ol school
Neolitico???? Una autentiuca chapuza, totalmente descompensado y que rompe la cuerda, ademas de usar madera con savia moviendose, que en cuando seque, se rajara y partirá. Menuda mierda. dislike
