Traditional Bowyer's Bible

[mooseman76]

I've been having alot of interest in building a glass longbow lately.  Are any of these volumes helpful for a bowyer "wannabe"?  I'm not really interested in self bows yet, just glass backed bows.  Any other books, videos, etc... that are helpful would be appreciated.  I'm making a Christmas list now  

Mike

[Apex Predator]

Traditional Bowyers Bible series only deals with wood bows, unless volume 4 covers them.  That's the only one I don't have.

[Pat B]

All 4 TBB relate to wood bow archery.  Pat

[Kanga]

Binghams have a couple of video's they are not bad and will probably be a good starting point for you.

[George Tsoukalas]

No glass in the TBB's. Wingnut did do a chapter on lam bows w/o glass. jawge

[mooseman76]

Thanks guys.  Anything other than the Binghams videos that I should look into?  Thanks again...Mike

[Pat B]

"Traditional Bowyers of America", by Dan Bertalan is chocked full of information from many of the best US bowyers of the time it was written. I'm sure a lot has changed since since 1989 but there is plenty of good info about design and construction methods in it.     Pat

[The Gopher]

Traditional Bowyer: More Unnessesary Fun by Jack Harrison has over 700 pages of glass bow know how. it's a little pricey but for how much book you get, it's worth it.

[shamus]

I've yet to see a book for glass bowyers that covers the craft. I've seen plenty of books that showcase various glass bowyers (it's like reading a book of advertisements). Seems like they don't like to share their secrets.    :rolleyes:  

More Unnecessary Fun by Jack Harrison  seems to be the exception, but I've never read it. At $75, I assume Jack hand-scribed every book on vellum.    :p