I didn't manage to finish this bow, but I decided to share this video with you anyway, to show you that not each of my projects ends up with a functional bow. Failures like this are inherent part of the bowyer's craft - it's about learning the lesson and improving with each bow built or broken. Thanks for watching!
I could watch you make bows all day! 😏😅 You are beyond skilled 🙌🏽🙌🏽 I bought your book and it’s been so helpful throughout my bow making journey 🫶🏽 Thank you 🖤
My condolences to the bow, great video and thank you for sharing even the fails. It doesn't deter me from wanting to make bows, and it makes the successful bows that much more inspiring.
Thanks for showing a now that didn’t work it makes me feel better knowing even pros don’t succeed I was loosing motivation since I don’t have many working bows
I would keep the broken pieces cause they are so precious and so much loving work went in. They are still pristine sculptures and work of art, a long lost cultural ancestral heritage. If we could only learn these types of valueable indigenous skills at school our world and heart to heart relationships and communion overall would improve. 🌳🌱💗
Great video as always, sad it didn’t work out but we’re always learning. I was wondering, what’s the material you use for the string rests (around 5:20)? It looks like some kind of stone?
Can I ask a question. Im not trying to be confrontational just want to know what the reason to make this bow out of 1 piece of wood and not make it out of 2 pieces of wood and a centre piece made out of either the same would or a different material. From my perspective I would have thought that it would disperse the weight more equally making it stronger and possible not to break. Edit: I just watched your other video from 8 months ago of you making a cyclops bow so I was wondering why did this one break? Is it made from a different wood or was the wood not aged enough? Just want to know the reason.
I think that the walls of the eye were just made too thin, resulting in too much stres i that area and snapping. (Similar to a hinge in a tiller that doesn't bend🤔 and than snaps )
The previous ones were better balanced - there was more wood around the hole so it could deal with the stress better. On this one I removed too much material from the hole area so it lead to the failure.
Zaczynam swoją przygodę z łuczarstwem między innymi dzięki tobie. Mam za sobą dwa dobre łuki płaskie które dają dużo frajdy ze strzelania. Zacząłem pracę nad pierwszym łukiem rfleksyjnym i tu moje pytanie. Ile czasu trzymać łuk w formie kształtującej refleks. Z góry dziękuję za odpowiedź.
Super! Po wygięciu wystarczy zostawić łuk w formie do całkowitego ostygnięcia materiału (dla pewności można zostawić na kilka godzin). Pozdrawiam i powodzenia!
