An Archer was born
Once upon a time, a fellow Trad Gang member from Norway reached out to me while anxiously awaiting the birth of his granddaughter 9 years ago….He said he would love to see her born with a bow in her hand, and asked if this is something I could do? I told Trond I would be delighted to build something special for his new grandaughter.
So I rolled up my sleaves and built a little self bow from maple. I had so much fun with the project, I had to build arrows and a quiver to go with it. It’s 24” in length nock to knock.
The day a proud Grandpa Trond was looking forward too finally arrived, and he presented baby Thea Louise her first bow on the day she was born…
Well little Thea Louise didn’t take long to start growing up……Here she is at 1 years old getting a feel for her first longbow…
Here Is Grandpa Trond showing her the stump shooting trail ….
Another year passed……… and little Thea at age 2 she needed something a bit more practical than her first longbow to consider using for her training to come…. In 2015 I had just come up with a miniature Recurve design that I thought might fit the bill nicely. I designed this little bow to replicate the old 60’s design recurve, and these run 37” nock to knock in length.
Here is Thea at age 2 checking out her first recurve bow…
And here she is trying to figure out how this thing works…
To be continued shortly….