This concise guide will show you how to make your own recurve bow. It covers all of the information you need to make jigs, forms, templates as well as information on epoxy and laminations. Everything you need to make your own recurve bow, build by you, designed by you, for you.

Let this concise guide show you how to make your own professional bowstrings. Using this guide you'll learn how to make both Flemish Twist and Endless Loop bowstrings. In addition this book contains plans and instructions to allow you to create your own bowstring jigs at home with common materials. If you've ever wanted to make your own bowstrings or want to develop a hobby which people would pay for, then this is it. Learn to make bowstrings today.

Let this concise guide show you how to make your own English Longbow. One of the easiest to make traditional selfbows. This book will show you how to select the wood, make the jigs, tiller the bow. Everything you need to know to make your very own longbow.

Do you know the difference between a Bowyer and a Fletcher?It has been said that any old stick can become a bow, but an arrow is a work of art. The person who makes bows is called a bowyer and the person who makes arrows is a fletcher. The word is derived from the French word flèche, meaning "arrow". Fetching is an art form which encompasses a variety of knowledge and skills and is arguably much more difficult than being a bowyer.Do you know about t...

Did you know the American Flatbow is considered the most robust design for an bow?The flatbow is a superior bow design because the stress is more evenly spread out across the limbs than for a rounded bow. When a limb is round like the English longbow some material sticks out farther from the neutral axis and therefore under greater stress. Conversely on a flatbow the most strained material is a uniform distance from the neutral axis. This acts to spread the load ov...

This is the complete series of Traditional and Modern Archery Manufacture including all five books:How To Make ArrowsHow To Make an English LongbowHow To Make an American FlatbowHow To Make a BowstringHow To Make a Recurve BowThese guides include instructions, plans, as well as plans for Jigs, Formers and everything you need to make you're own archery equipment.