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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

The first in a series of action-packed novellas set in Ancient Rome introducing Pavo, a novice gladiator, and featuring Simon Scarrow's ongoing soldier character Optio Macro.It is AD 41. The savage Gaul Britomaris has defeated the best of the Roman gladiators in the arena. Now a young volunteer, Marcus Valerius Pavo, the son of a murdered general, has been given a month to prepare to face Britomaris in a fight which only one man can survive. He is to be trained by veteran soldier M...

THE Germans interpret their new national colours-black, red, and white-by the saying, "Durch Nacht und Blut zur licht." ("Through night and blood to light"), and no work yet written conveys to the thinker a clearer conception of all that the red streak in their flag stands for than this deep and philosophical analysis of "War" by Clausewitz. It reveals "War," stripped of all accessories, as the exercise of force for the attainment of a political object, unrestrained by any law save that of...

Knife SharpeningThis is a training booklet that applies to all walks of life, including the sharpness of the knife one chooses to use in survival. The time taken to master knife sharpening is highly variable. Once you know what to do the fast learner takes about 4 accumulated hours to put a shaving edge on his or her knife the first time, after which it takes moments to re-establish your edge.Written by Mors Kochanski

The Two Kilogram Survival Kit Field ManualThis booklet is a training manual that is also useful to include in a survival kit as a reference. To learn to construct the survival kit component super shelter, the ski shoes, bucksaw and packframe require two days of training, three for slow learners.Written by Mors Kochanski

“The Witchery of Archery” is a classic guide to using a bow and arrow for pleasure and sport. Within it, the author presents his own personal archery adventures and experiences, hoping that the reader will gleam the information and theoretical details required to be proficient with a bow. A fantastic guide full of timeless information for archers both new and old. Contents include: “Outline Sketch Of The Practice Of Archery In Hunting”, “Some Notes On Woodpecker”, “Shooting”, “Bow-Shooting...

"A surprise best-seller which, apparently, has the power to turn even the most feeble of us into axe-wielding lumberjacks." — IndependentThe latest Scandinavian publishing phenomenon is not a Stieg Larsson-like thriller; it's a book about chopping, stacking, and burning wood that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Norway and Sweden and has been a fixture on the bestseller lists there for more than a year. Norwegian Wood provides useful advice on ...