Self bow

[Tcrowe]

Can someone point me in the right direction for books or instructional video on how to build a long bow.

[shamus]

Books for getting started:

 
 

• The Traditional Bowyer's Bible Vol.1
• The Bent Stick by Paul Comstock

Those two will give you a good building block basic knowledge.

Books to get after you have read those:
 
 

• The Traditional Bowyer's Bible Volumes 2-4
• Hunting the Osage Bow by Dean Torges

[Ranger B]

Take a look at my videos on Youtube. I have a series building a kids longbow and then some more building an osage and part 4 in the osage series is about the tools of the trade.  Go to this link and then just watch all the videos "Making a selfbow"  You'll have to pull the window down so you can see all of the videos posted because there are over 20 of them in total.

  Link to selfbow videos

[Mike Most]

if your interested in fiberglass longbows, try  www.binghamprojects.com

they have all the plans and materials one could possibly want.

[Dublin Joe]

Two sites which have helped a lot of aspiring bowyers are:

 http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/archer.html

 http://poorfolkbows.com/

Warning: building bows is addictive for many who try it even once.  You've been warned.

Joel

[Tcrowe]

Thank's to all, looks like I have plenty of resources to figure this out.