bow making
Crafting curved weapons
Bow making is the craft of constructing bows for archery, from selecting and shaping wood to tillering—the careful removal of material until the limbs bend evenly.
Traditional bow making uses a single piece of wood (a selfbow), while modern methods may laminate different materials.
The term also applies to making bows for stringed instruments like violins, a distinct craft requiring different skills and materials.
- yewToxic conifer, flexible timber
- longbowTall wooden archery weapon
- staveBarrel's wooden rib
- wood grainTimber's natural pattern
- limbsBody's major appendages
recurve · string · nock · lamination · fiberglass · draw · draw weight · flex · tension · carving · woodworking · fletcher · arrows · quiver · sinew · horn · backing · belly
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