Beginner Carving Tips for Bow Making

Nine carving tips for new bowyers. What tools you'll need if you're starting out, and a few tips to get the most out of them.

How to Put a Hook on a Card Scraper, by bowyer Forest Shattuck    • December 7, 2020  

How to Sharpen a Card Scraper, by Weylin Olive of Swiftwood Bows.    • How to Sharpen a Card Scraper  


Here’s a going list of bowyer channels. If there are any I missed let me know.

Del Cat    / @delcat8168  

Swiftwood Bows    / swiftwoodbows  

HuntPrimitive    / @huntprimitive9918  

Backyard Bowyer    / backyardbowyer  

Clay Hayes    / ibprimitive  

Dave Mead    / meadlongbows  

tekpatl    • Indigenous Bowyer | making a recurve bow  

Kramer Ammons    / kramerammons  

Mick Grewcock    / mickgrewcock  

Old Hill Archery (Druid)    / @oldhillarchery1074  

Richard Head Longbows    / richardheadlongbows  

Dreamcraft Bows    / @dreamcraftbows  

Agincourt Warbow    / agincourtwarbow  

Sam Harper    / philochristos  

Shawn Woods    • Primitive Archery Copper Age Yew Longbow P...  

Elliot Armory    / @eliotarmory7085  

JR’s Place    / @johnjriggsarchery2457  

Rowan Bows    / melvin332  

Bowtell Bows    / @bowtellbows  

Matthew Courtney-Jones    / @matthewcourtney-jones6041  

Boarrior Bows    / boarriorbows  

Wooden Ren    / mylove348  

Legionnaire Archery    / legionnairearchery  

Provision Longbow    / @provisionlongbows8881  

Big Jims Bow Company    / bigjimsbowcompany  

Donald Porta    / donaldporta  

Walter Gigandet    / @waltergigandet6715  

VFC Archery    / @vfcarchery7967  

Ravenbeak Natureworks    / ravenbeaknatureworks  

Pine Hollow Longbows    / @pinehollowlongbows3047  

Aaron Webster    / @laughingsturgeon  

Maciek Zajac
   • Moon ash selfbow project, part I  


Last one, here's mine
   / dansantanabows  

Go make a bow!





Thank you once again to TeknoAxe for the free music used in the last several videos. Here's the channel page.
   / teknoaxe  

Banjos and Lazy Sunsets, Saying Farewell to the Year, and Why is Kolaveree, all by Teknoaxe, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) and are modified from their original versions in volume and duration. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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