Seven Bow Making Tools. How to Make your First Bow. Part One.

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Seven Bow Making Tools. How to Make your First Bow. Teach Yourself Bow Making. Part One.
At the request of viewers, a guide for beginner’s who want to make wooden bows. In this series of videos I explain and show how I began bow making - right from choosing my first tools through to finishing a bow. Join me as I work through all the stages of bow making in the hope of helping you to teach yourself the art and craft of the bowyer. And at the end of the series I will bring all these tools, techniques and tips together and bring you with me as I make a bow of a style and type that I have never made before in the hope of showing you what it’s like to build a bow from scratch including all the ups and downs faced by by beginners and experienced alike.
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SEVEN BOW MAKING TOOLS
FIVE AIDS TO BOW MAKING
FINDING BOW WOOD
MARKING & SHAPING THE BOW
THE MYSTERY OF TILLERING
WHEN IT ALL GOES WRONG
FINISHING YOUR FIRST BOW
MAKING A BOW STRING AND ARROW
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I'm Mick Grewcock, retired from business and now self-learning the arts of longbow- and film-making. Join me in my light-hearted quest for knowledge as I learn to combine the ancient woodworking craft of bow-making with digital videography and film making - I'd be delighted to have you for company on this bizarre journey combining digital and primitive technology.
I have a deep passion for the medieval English longbow, the great warbow - the powerful version of the English longbow that earned its fearsome reputation during the Middle Ages, notably the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the ferocious battle fields of France and England during the One Hundred Years War (and in the hands of Robin Hood too!). It is an iconic weapon - and to this day, exudes heritage and awesome power.
Lots of bow making on my channel - do browse, view, like comment and subscribe. I have videos on making yew, hazel, elm and blackthorn longbows as well as many others related to primitive and instinctive archery, target archery arrow and bow making. In my videos you will see and hear what it is like to self learn bow making. I am self-taught as a bowyer - learning the hard way to work wood to make a bow - and still discovering every day. Sometimes I fail, sometimes I succeed; but I'm always learning. I also explore the UK's rural landscape, sometimes in search of bow making woods, discovering survival skills, sometimes in search of the glories of this landscape.
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@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Following my request for video suggestions here is a short series based on a number of respondent's suggestions. Let me know if it works for you - or not!

@timdefelice2570 Год назад

You have to understand how much you inspire me to fail at bow making. The way you teach by result has made me feel it is ok to break the bow once in awhile. So long as I use the failure to learn the reasons and pick out a new stave and begin again. I now have made several successful bows out of different species and I must tell you that you have been key in my learning. I thank you so much for making all of your videos.

@MickGrewcock Год назад

Thank you for your very kind comment. But it was you that did it. If I did something it was only the tiniest spark. Well done! Carry on.

@BowgFrowg 2 года назад

Taking notes. I feel stronger already 💪

@johnny30806 5 лет назад

When I saw the notification I had a big Ole smile on my face all day at work. Couldn't watch it at work. Had to wait until I got off the clock. Great video Mick.

@foxmulder7616 2 года назад

Just got me a antique draw knife can't wait to try making a 🏹!!! 😁

@MickGrewcock 2 года назад

Good luck!

@gretafrank1990 5 лет назад

Good stuff! Looking forward to a new series of videos. I learned a lot from your videos when I made my first bow one year ago and I will definitely be revisiting your channel a lot in the future as I move on to bow number two!

@signaturerush 2 года назад

I plan to make a bow out of some crepe myrtle in my front yard.It’s quite thick so I reckon I’ll have a lot to work with.

@joedrury5543 4 года назад

fantastic video!

@besthubiever 4 года назад

Hello Mick, I followed your suggestion and binge watched your archery playlist. 103 videos in two days was a very serious binge, but I could not stop myself because all of your videos are awesome! I used to make very simple bows as a kid and made another one on my 30th birthday two years ago, using only my pocket knife and some sand paper. 8 hours later I had lots of blisters on my hands, but a happy smile on my face as I pulled my first hazel longbow. Your videos have inspired me to harvest another hazel and let it season till spring, to make a more serious, planned attempt. Your videos are heplful, well shot and edited, well structured and entertaining. I did not only learn about bows I feel, but about life, how to deal with failures and how not to take yourself too serious. Your charming personality really drew me in, and your skills as a filmmaker are truly remarkable. Wow, this is the longest comment I have ever written, but it was a long binge and it was really important to me to tell you how much I appreciate what you do. I subscribed and I am looking forward to your next videos.

@MickGrewcock 4 года назад

Wow, that’s an Olympian effort! You must be sick of me 🤣 But what great feedback, thank you. Good luck with you next hazel - but you need not wait too long - hazel will speed dry in just a few weeks, especially if winter cut. I’m currently not making bows or videos about bow making - watching 103 videos is Olympian but making them seemed Herculean!! I needed a break and also life got in the way rather badly as it does sometimes. Not sure if I’ll resume or not - I may have moved on. We’ll see. Anyway thanks for your viewing dedication. Awesome. Happy Xmas 🙏🙏

@dunelmtinker4758 5 лет назад

Very excited to watch the rest of this series. Just started experimenting with shaping a bow using an old conifer branch. Going for a flat belly/round back. Fully expect the wood to fail when tillering but having never made a bow I’m enjoying the process. Thanks for the inspiration Mick!

@dunelmtinker4758 5 лет назад

As expected, the first attempt snapped on tiller. I had great fun though and even knocked a shave horse together using your other video as a guide. Just started shaping a green ash stave today, came across an “iceberg” of a knot about a foot from the end. Wasn’t much to see on the outside but got worse the more material I removed from the sides. Another break heading my way I think. Really enjoying learning as I go!

@tibordupkala693 5 лет назад

Bravo Mick, I'm looking forward to all the videos

@isokane9726 5 лет назад

Great video!!!!

@moonchild2686 5 лет назад

Its just great to see your vids, even the beginner ones. Looking forward. Keep going Mick! :-)

@rilledulu 5 лет назад

This vid just makes me happy.... :) As usual.. :D Keep em commi´n.. :D

@kingheath97 5 лет назад

I love that you've made this series. I'm currently trying to reduce the diameter of a bow staff to get it to a more appropriate size and getting the knots off.

@sbvera13 5 лет назад

At first I thought this would be a retread, but it turned out really great. I like how you compare different tools and the cheap/good versions and what you get for one or the other. Of course I can't resist adding my own commentary: Rasp- Exactly as you said! Saw- I don't like the folders, too flimsy for my tastes, but they do get the job done. I prefer a bow saw or frame saw myself. Scrapers- I make my own. Rusty old vintage saw blades that aren't worth restoring have made the absolute best scrapers for me. They are right in the middle ground between hard enough to cut the wood and soft enough to sharpen. Modern pre-made ones are often very hard steel and an absolute pain to resharpen. Draw Knife- Be careful not to split the wood on accident! They are good at that... cough. cough. Spoke Shave- Good ones are well worth the money, because they hold adjustment. Actually, I *vastly* prefer the vintage style you show. Because the shavings dump out the back, instead of up over the blade, they almost never get stuck, which is great because you don't have to stop and clean it out. Also, adjustment is not an issue. To use the old style, set the blade so that one side is set very fine (takes a very thin shaving), and the other side is more coarse (takes a thick shaving). Then, instead of fiddling with adjuster screws, all you do is move the tool left or right a bit. Brilliant! I love old tools, they have a genius of simplicity to them. Axe/Machete: Paul Sellers has a video on how to customize and sharpen a hand axe for carving; it would be great for bowmaking as well. A tool that I like even better though is a Kukri. It's a hybrid between an axe and a machete so you can hew with it, carve with it, even use the inner curved section as a draw knife, and it's balanced better then an axe so easier to control. Good ones are not cheap however, and bad ones are useless. I love mine, but if on a budget, a hand-axe is the way to go.

@playinginthelight7450 4 года назад

Thanks for the encouragement in tool 7. I'm on my 5th or 6th bow, from 10" diameter oak logs quartered into staves. I usually do pyramid flatbow designs, currently I am on my first English style longbow. I've learned a lot from your channel-thank you!

@MickGrewcock 4 года назад

Playing in the Light Thank you and good luck with your ELB!

@fancymcclean6210 5 лет назад

Good morning from sunny New Zealand. Can't fault your list Mick. In addition, I would suggest a farrier's rasp. Some way to secure the wood is very helpful- such as a shave horse or stave press. Looking forward to the series. Flaxen Saxon

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Thank you - good suggestions! And in part two I include the shave horse - video made and uploaded and will be posted Wednesday. Have a great day - nearly bed time here!

@keithbaker3405 5 лет назад

Hmmmm cabinet scrappers....when I was a kid taking my O levels, one of my subjects was carpentry. My teacher was a ex piano cabinet builder and that man had some fantastic skill, so much did he impart on me that I had my very own carpentry shed at 15 years old. As an O level project I designed and made a full sized coffee table, all jointed with haunched mortise and tenon, lap dovetail and butt joints....I still remember to this day learning how to sharpen a cabinet scraper and using it to get that table top to a billiard table flatness. All the professional bowyer's that I have watched have very poor tool skills, they use cutting tools such as spoke shaves and planes against the grain of the wood and wonder why they have "fiber tear out" on woods such as yew. They also hack away with a cabinet scraper in either grain direction while holding it in one hand (they should be held in two hands with the thumbs applying pressure to the centre to flex the blade slightly and worked with the grain), my old teacher would have been threatening them with a slap across the arse with his ply "Persuader"...and yes Mick that would include you!! lol. PS..the back of an old power hacksaw blade makes a great cabinet scraper. Nice video Mick..enjoyed as always.

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Telling off noted Keith! I shall behave better in future - I have no wish to feel ‘The Persuader’!

@keithbaker3405 5 лет назад

@@MickGrewcock ... lol Mick, from memory it was about 7" wide by a yard long and at least 3/8" thick with a comfortable handle cut into one end...the business end was all delaminated. When we were acting up he would smack a bench with it and shout "STOP you bunch of long haired sheep dogs".....it kind of made you focus!!!!! lol He is long time dead now but Mr Stapp was a great and well respected teacher, craftsman and deputy head...bless him!

@dace48 5 лет назад

All good suggestions, as much as I love my tools it's amazing what you can manage with if it is well made and in good condition. As mentioned, always get the best quality tools that you can - almost every culture in the world has a variation of "buy cheap, buy twice" so don't put yourselves through the expense of replacing cheap, broken or useless tools. Not even including the potential danger of badly made axes, blades etc.

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Good points, thank you.

@SwissSareth 5 лет назад

Great video, as always. But personally, I preferred the opening in your introduction video to this one. It quite suits the theme of the series.

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Thanks for the tip. Mick

@samcoote9653 5 лет назад

Hi Mick, stumbled across your videos what seems like long time ago now, and havent seen one again until tonight, don't know why I never subscribed in the first place, love your work, the videos are looking great

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Thank you Sam 🙏 Better late than never 👍 Thanks for watching. Mick

@samcoote9653 5 лет назад

@@MickGrewcock Thankyou for having me :) and for sharing your knowledge and wisdom, not to mention the excellent approach of working with green materials to save us from heart attacks in the event of breakages :)

@rayzugar4776 5 лет назад

Hello Mick, let's hope you can get some new bowiers interested in the art of bow making. Don't forget to tell them about the disappointments as well.

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Hi Ray and thank you. Just seeing how I get on making videos others have suggested!

@rayzugar4776 5 лет назад

@@MickGrewcock if you make a pyramid bow that many people have requested, would you back it or make one out of one piece of wood only?

@forrestdaniels6382 3 месяца назад

Any North American tribe would almost always have just two things to use in making their bows; a knife and a tomahawk. And that was all that was needed as many a young man was taught from his father/ grandfather.In today’s world, I think we make everything much more complicated than we have to.

@erikaushamburg8279 5 лет назад

This year hopefully I will make my own Selfbow! Got the draw knife and rasp but my knowledge maybe still not enough!

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Erik Hamburg Just have a go Erik! You will learn much. Good luck.

@helihandler 5 лет назад

Hi again Mick, following this vid. would it be helpful to us viewers to see, or you explain how to sharpen the tools that you use? I have to often sharpen my draw knife, especially after working around knots on a stave, and it always seems to turn out sharper or not... (so back to the sharpening stone again! ) as I'm really not sure how to do it properly. And as for sharpening a spoke shave...over to you Sir :-)

@sbvera13 5 лет назад

Until/Unless Mick gets around to it, I suggest checking out Paul Seller's YT channel. He has videos explaining how to sharpen all of these things, including saws. Just remember that a Draw Knife is basically a skinny axe, and a spoke shave is a funky plane, they sharpen the same way. Paul's a bit long winded, but by far the best expert on the subject.

@crazycressy7986 5 лет назад

Nice one Mick ,how often do you oil your bows ?

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

When they look dry - so the older ones seem to need it less than the newer ones. Not sure what others do though! Good question Pete.

@crazycressy7986 5 лет назад

Cheers bro ;)

@shawng5799 5 лет назад

You can make a draw knife from an old file😉

@Durag_jaca 5 лет назад

Can i do spokeshave work with knife? I havent got any and in my country i dont know name of it and cant find it

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Mati Kołodziejski Yes you could but a spokeshave is much better. What is your country Mati?

@Durag_jaca 5 лет назад

@@MickGrewcock poland

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

@@Durag_jaca This is what I use. Available on ebay in the UK for shipping to Poland. bit.ly/2RtN58d

@AngloSaxon1 5 лет назад

Hello Mick, what is your camera setup, I have a youtube channel and would like to produce videos as good as yours

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Hi there. I’m not sure the camera is really the key to producing good videos, many cameras these days can record video in great quality. I use Panasonic GH4 and GH5 cameras plus a variety of lenses and edit in Final Cut Pro on a 27” MAC. Concentrate on the story you want to tell and find a way of telling it in an engaging way. Even a phone will turn out great video if you keep it steady and use it to tell a great story. What kit do you currently use?

@AngloSaxon1 5 лет назад

@@MickGrewcock Thank you

@hankczinaski915 5 лет назад

Essential tools ( you can make a bow with just these two) -> hatchet, rasp Very useful tools -> scraper, spokeshave Nice to have tools -> saw, chainsaw file, draw knife To use a spokeshave or a draw knife you'll need some sort of a vice/workbench/shaving horse.

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Thanks Hank!

@rodparsons521 5 лет назад

One thing I never understood is why some people seem to like trampolining on a bow stave with a blunt or inappropriate tool. If I need the stave secured for accurate working with a sharp tool the last thing I want is to have it bouncing up and down under a dull tool. But we all have our quirks and preferences. One of mine is Python brand Safety handles on all my tanged Swiss rasps and files. Something Mick failed to mention is the value of learning how and having the means to keep a suitable edge on a hand tool that needs it to function properly. Admittedly some jobs require a degree of dullness, such as drawknifing off bark or sapwood from a fresh cut stave. It is also the case that different woods require differing degrees of coarseness in the stages of reduction or smoothing, this being relevant to rasps, files and sandpapers. Where a 12" half-round cabinet maker's rasp can pair up with a half-round engineer's bastard file for something like Ash, for something harder and more tight-grained I might use the bastard paired with a second-cut or even a smoother. Either way the manifest usefulness of a good half-round file or rasp as opposed to one that is flat on both sides will quickly become evident when you have some character to deal with. If I could only have 4 tools I would opt for a good Japanese folding saw, a good side-axe or hedger's cleaving knife, a rectangular or goosenecked cabinet scraper and a decent burnishing bone (plus the means to keep an edge the tools that need it). If I need wedges I can cut them as required. My favourite found tool is an alloy war-time utility table knife from the school canteen, "borrowed" in the summer of '58 specifically to peel bark from some fresh-cut coppice wood.

@MickGrewcock 5 лет назад

Good points there Rod, thank you

@dace48 5 лет назад

I would second the need for a good edge on your tools, I seem to meet a lot of people who are frightened of sharp tools or knives and do not understand that when cutting a sharp blade is much safer than a dull one. Learn to use your tools, learn to maintain them.

@rodparsons521 5 лет назад

@@MickGrewcock I like the fact that you are not afraid to go over the same ground again. I only hope that eventually you will get around to looking at set-up and use. I reckon that will wait until you need to do it. ;-)

@rodparsons521 5 лет назад

Postscript "on drawknives". I know how to use one, but I can't say that I have ever had much use for one.