Thread: Best wood for making bows

Long bow or short bow, laminated bows are very powerful short bows as used by the Mongol hordes and many American first nations.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Long bow or short bow, laminated bows are very powerful short bows as used by the Mongol hordes and many American first nations.

Making a laminate bow with plaster board tape is on my long list of things to do. Buggered if I know how to use a bow, but making one will fill in the evenings for a few weeks.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Long bow or short bow, laminated bows are very powerful short bows as used by the Mongol hordes and many American first nations.

But it does require good upper body strength to pull those hard laminated bows as we knew from history as the "The last traditional bow marker" in China said in a TV show, and his family has been making bows for hundreds years.

Also this taught me so much about trad Archery

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1E1vKkSSoNs