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Hand-Crafted Primitive Bows and Wooden Arrows
Oldest Known Bow Recreated by Professional Bowyer
The Holmegaard bow is the oldest complete bow ever found; dating to roughly 7,000 BC (Mesolithic Period - Middle Stone Age). It was found alongside several other bows recovered from a bog in Denmark in 1963.
The Holmegaard bow is frequently mistaken for and/or used interchangeably with the Mollegabet artifact, but they're quite different. The Holmegaard is a fairly straightforward flatbow with a time-tested, pyramid-like limb profile. The Mollegabet, on the other hand, is kept wide for approximately 60% of its limbs before abruptly tapering to unusually narrow, rigid levers.
The design was trusted by the ancient hunter-gatherers; and remains in widespread use today. A well made Holmegaard is a solid hunting bow, with excellent durability and a quick, smooth cast. If you've never built one, I encourage you to give it a try. If you have, let me know your thoughts on Holmegaard bows in the comments below!
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Website: www.organicarchery.com
The Holmegaard bow is frequently mistaken for and/or used interchangeably with the Mollegabet artifact, but they're quite different. The Holmegaard is a fairly straightforward flatbow with a time-tested, pyramid-like limb profile. The Mollegabet, on the other hand, is kept wide for approximately 60% of its limbs before abruptly tapering to unusually narrow, rigid levers.
The design was trusted by the ancient hunter-gatherers; and remains in widespread use today. A well made Holmegaard is a solid hunting bow, with excellent durability and a quick, smooth cast. If you've never built one, I encourage you to give it a try. If you have, let me know your thoughts on Holmegaard bows in the comments below!
Instagram: @organic.archer
Website: www.organicarchery.com
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Making English Longbows from Common Woods
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The question has been asked a million times - "Will wood make an English Longbow?" I'll refer to them instead as D-bows, because the design was quite widespread throughout history and is relied on by several of the remaining hunter-gatherer tribes to this day. Several different trees are used for traditional English longbows most famously Yew but also Ash and Elm which were referred to as the "...
Neolithic Ash Longbow Made w/ Modern Tools
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In this video I use modern tools to make an "archer-tall" ash longbow inspired by some of the ancient artifacts from the Neolithic period. Some prehistoric bows were at least as tall as the archer and made with rounded bellies, much like the renowned English longbow and warbow. Regardless of what you call it, it's a widespread design used by both hunters and warriors throughout human history. T...
How To Find & Prepare Bow Wood
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One of the most challenging parts of a new bowyer's journey is actually finding bow wood; and once you've found some, the work has only just begun! As with all things in woodworking, wood carving, and other lumber trades ~ quality wood must first be sourced, processed, and most importantly dried before it's stable enough to transform into functional and long-lasting products. The same rules app...
Make a Primitive Bow by Feel - No Special Tools
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Bow making technology has changed since the ancient times, but the process remains much the same. With no shortage of primitive archery how-tos showcasing the benefits of specialized tools, it's always good to be reminded that bows can be made with nothing more than one or two readily-available implements. If you're not confident in your wood carving skills with a hatchet, practice on scrap woo...
Sharpen a Card Scraper the Easy Way
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This Bowyer's Bench video covers a simple and effective way to sharpen both rectangular and gooseneck card scrapers, also known as cabinet scrapers or hand scrapers. If you build high-end cabinets or furniture, you might want to make your scrapers razor sharp by stepping down to finer grit sandpaper. For building and tillering wooden bows, 220 grit is plenty sharp. This method works well regard...
Make a Bison Hide Back Quiver
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In this video I show how to make a simple and effective back quiver from split bison hide. This is the proprietary style I've been making for Organic Archery customers for the several years. I use 4-5 oz split bison hide and a cowhide liner for improved broadhead protection. These quivers can only be used with 2-blade broadheads and are not safe for use with 3-blade. If the straps are made long...
How to Freehand Sharpen a Draw Knife
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This Bowyer's Bench video covers a quick and easy freehand sharpening method that works for all shapes and sizes of draw knives. What would you like to see covered in future Bowyer's Bench videos? Let me know in the comments! Instagram: @organic.archer Website: www.organicarchery.com
Making an Eastern Woodlands Bow
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In this video I make a replica of the Eastern Woodlands bow from the Catawba Tribe found on page 78 of the "Encyclopedia of Native American Bows, Arrows & Quivers - Northeast, Southeast, and Midwest" by Steve Allely and Jim Hamm. The Pre-Columbian Catawba territory consisted mainly of present day North and South Carolina, and they were later considered by early colonists to be one of the most p...
Making Otzi the Iceman's Bow w/ Modern Tools
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In this video I build a nearly identical replica of the bow found alongside Otzi the Iceman. Modern steel hand tools were used, and the measurements differ from Otzi's bow by only fractions of an inch as the process unfolds. This happens naturally while working it down to the desired draw weight, which in this case was 65-70 pounds at 26 inches. It's important to remember that every piece of wo...
Nice work. Question, if I may, on quivers. What stops the arrows falling out when running or moving around?
what a wholesome artist
you can tell this guy's pleased with all the thumbs ups he keeps giving himself
This was great breakdown, and great inspiration to just try something.
I was born&bred in Nottinghamshire UK and have always found archery fascinating, years ago when they did renovation on Nottingham Castle gates they actually found an arrow embedded in the solid oak , ancestrally yew was used to produce a high quality warbow with the correct proportions of heartwood and sapwood, its amazing how they figured it out tbh but I suppose their entire lives from early childhood were dedicated to the craft.
I didn't know they had that kind of equipment in the stone age.....
I was astounded to learn that an English archer was ready when he could loose 10 arrows into the air before the first hit the ground.
Elm. Hack, hickory, ??
Beautiful bow, as always
Tak!
The design of a self bow hasn’t changed much in 9000 years…
Back to basics, beautiful work🥰 Thank You from Norway😌🙏
Excellent craftsmanship and shooting. Do you know the feet per second this bow shoots & pounds you're pulling?
our ancestors could definitely put food on the table with that. Outstanding work. Thanks for sharing.
How many days did it take you to make it. How long would it have taken prehistoric bowmaker to make it? a week?
Hello there from an archer from Ukraine. The bow is amazing! Is there any chance to have one of your bows some how?
Fascinating to watch. I always enjoy watching skilled craftsmen at work. It does make you wonder how they built such a bow with only stone tools though.
I noticed you didn't use any pig blood on the wood... how do you expect to defeat wizards without a sacrifice on said bow.... surely you sent it to the local witch for some sort of spell protection .... my god middle earth is doomed if this is what you are selling them.
I wonder if the first bow was created by a genius ?
How do you prevent the arrow smash to your hand?
Simply amazing! I have always wanted to practice archery.
New to your channel and I love it! Had no idea of all the work that went in to a bow. Thanks!
Very nice work.
Holmegaard is right in my backyard🙂 Went fishing there as a kid. Big pikes to catch.
Superb! I'm in class! Step by step tutorial! YES!
Cudos for the level of information! I learned from this
So cool!! This has just been suggested to me I swear to taunt me, I am currently writing my masters thesis on Ertebølle Culture ceramics and jokingly said to another student how done I am with the write up as Im itching to move on to a project to make an elm Mollegabet bow!
Perfect at all
hello sir i have a question and i hopping you could help! i have access to beech wood and i want to make an english style longbow e.g 77-78'' long, do you have any advice for me? thank you!
now imagine doing all this with sharpened rocks instead of modern tools
Any idea on the effective range of this bow?
Great bow, made by a wonderful Bowyer. It is also fantastic that you made it as much alike to the ancient bow as you could. Congrats!! Dr. George Whitehead (shooting a bow for 70 years)
What's most surprising is that they had all those tools 9,000 years ago.
The original wood has been side branches of Ulmus laevis.
Surprised you went from a draw knife to a rasp. Seems a spoke shave would have been a good intermediate choice.
Do you make arrows as well? Love to see how that is done. Very fun to watch a master at work. Great vid.
Stunning work 👍
That is beautiful!! So much character in the wood. Excellent work sir!
would like to see how they were made in 7000BC
i love it.
Hello Cory, I just found your great channel. I was a a life long archer & bowhunter from the late 1960's through to around 2010, when age slowed me down, lol. A lot of years have gone by, but would you by chance be related to Ron Hawk, of Hawk Archery in La Crescenta California ?
Wow. Wonder how they made it in stone age-days? Surely not with flintstones. This must have been a hell of a lot of work for these guys. Thanks for showing. Greetings from Germany, Chris
Nice video I'm 15, started making bows at 11 , I've finally learned the wood that works for me though I still have a lot to learn
I'm going to have a go at making this my first bow. Thanks for the upload.
Another beautiful creation.
It to brag 🤔 , but I am the world worst bowyer 😒! Over the years I’ve made 4 and had 4 dramatically failed 😳🫣😒!
great video. thank you. as someone new this really helped
Beautiful work of art and very impressive skill!
Why, when the original foto and diagram is "metric". Is this guy introducing inaccuracies. By measuring in inches?
Fantastic Craftmanship, Not Primitive at all to me, the care You took to form the Bow and fine tune it to pull properly looks to me like a skill and a science that takes some time to learn and some heavy thinking. BRAVO SIR😊