who mentored the great bowyers?

[Matt Green]

I had heard that Jim Brackenbury mentored Wes Wallace and Norm of Blacktail bows. (Wallace named one of his bows the mentor after Brackenbury I've heard).

Am wondering what other mentoring do you know of?
list the mentor and who they trained.
thanks
matt G
   

[K2]

I believe Paul Schafer mentored Dave Windauer.  Ken

[Bjorn]

Mike Fedora mentored Dan Toelke if I am not mistaken.

[dhaverstick]

Jerry Pierce was a huge influence on a lot of the well-known bowyers of today; Dean Torges and Jim Reynolds come to mind.

[legends1]

Legendary bowyer Tim Miegs was mine.-Mike

[Matt Green]

keep em coming.  very intested in this topic.
thx
matt g

[two4hooking]

Howard Hill - John Schulz - David Miller

[Ulysseys]

What was the start of Black Widow?

[beendare]

Good topic....

Brings to mind the story the great coach of duke BB Mike Krzyzewski said when asked about his mentoring under the hot tempered Bobby Knight," I learned everything i needed to know about basketball and coaching under Bobby"

[Kris]

 

What was the start of Black Widow?

"The Wilson Brothers" but I'm sure there are a lot guys on here that can add a lot more then that re: subj.

Here is what The Widow site has:  https://blackwidowbows.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=16
 

Kris

[Walt Francis]

Bob Savage taught Paul Schafer.  

Bob Savage was self taught with a lot of long distance correspondence with Fred Bear.

[Gator1]

Walt

I'll bet bob savage is a  great guy. I enjoyed the TBM article on
Him...

[Matt Green]

very intriguing.  this is our roots.  who else.  some of you other bowyers chime in.
Again - be clear on Who mentored who.
thanks
matt G

[ron w]

Originally posted by Gator1:
Walt

I'll bet bob savage is a  great guy. I enjoyed the TBM article on
Him...

That was a good article.......

[Sixby]

God has been and still is my mentor and teacher. It just can't get any better than that.
Bro. Kirk and I share a lot of info but we were both building bows before we met.

God bless, Steve

[Matt Green]

I'd like to bump this one again.  Gotta be some more who could chime in.
thanks
mg

[cmh]

Originally posted by Sixby:
God has been and still is my mentor and teacher. It just can't get any better than that.
Bro. Kirk and I share a lot of info but we were both building bows before we met.

God bless, Steve

Perhaps the finest mentor of all.... God bless  

[Frisky]

Actually, Bob Savage was mentored by Jack Whitney who Bob said was years ahead of Bear and the others. He did correspond with Fred and Jack Howard and Harry Drake and others.

Joe

[kerry hardy]

George Birnie, the Scottish bowyer who worked here for Eddings, Tex-Tox, Adirondack, and Ben Pearson, was an apprentice to Richard Galloway in Scotland-- who was himself the last royal bowyer to the king of England. So if you have a Birnie bow, there's about eight centuries of handed-down bowmaking knowledge represented there.

Kerry

[damascusdave]

Dave Windauer includes quite a bit of information about Paul Schafer on his Silvertip website...when I spoke with Dave on the phone a while back he realized that he had been building Silvertip bows for longer than Paul did...I am pretty sure that Jack Kempf has shared his experience and ideas with more than one bowyer here is Alberta...I know Bert Frelink of Quartermoon Bows mentions Jack's assistance on his website

DDave