01-02-2009, 01:11 PM
My pleasure, Gin, and feel free to keep in touch with me. I am not the world's expert, but I will help as I can.
Compounds, what I call borg bows, easy to learn to use but yuck, I would avoid those unless you want to kill a deer. You will find when you go to an archery shop and ask about wooden bows, you will be treated like a Martian. Might as well go in kit to add to the effect
There are a number of great sites that cater to traditional and primative archers. Three Rivers Archery is a great company, fantastic service, and that is where I get much of my materials, such as arrow sharfting, fletching, tips, etc. They also carry some modern reproductions of Asiatic bows, which may be what Roman auxiliary archers used. I have one, and it is a fun, fast little bow. Three rivers also has a great selection of books for learning to make and how to shoot bows.
You cant go wrong by acquiring at least vol. I of the Traditional Bowyers Bible, and primitivearcher.com is a great resource full of friendly people who will go out of their way to help. Paleoplanet is another primitive bow place to hang out and get help, and they also have sections of the website on atlatls, fire making, etc. All things ancestral, so to speak.
Oh, the other key tool I love and use all the time is a farrier's rasp. That will make your life easier, and can be found on line or in a shop catering to horse folk.
Happy new year,
Dane
Compounds, what I call borg bows, easy to learn to use but yuck, I would avoid those unless you want to kill a deer. You will find when you go to an archery shop and ask about wooden bows, you will be treated like a Martian. Might as well go in kit to add to the effect
There are a number of great sites that cater to traditional and primative archers. Three Rivers Archery is a great company, fantastic service, and that is where I get much of my materials, such as arrow sharfting, fletching, tips, etc. They also carry some modern reproductions of Asiatic bows, which may be what Roman auxiliary archers used. I have one, and it is a fun, fast little bow. Three rivers also has a great selection of books for learning to make and how to shoot bows.
You cant go wrong by acquiring at least vol. I of the Traditional Bowyers Bible, and primitivearcher.com is a great resource full of friendly people who will go out of their way to help. Paleoplanet is another primitive bow place to hang out and get help, and they also have sections of the website on atlatls, fire making, etc. All things ancestral, so to speak.
Oh, the other key tool I love and use all the time is a farrier's rasp. That will make your life easier, and can be found on line or in a shop catering to horse folk.
Happy new year,
Dane
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