Is this the BEST Survival Bow? - Penobscot Primitive Bow
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2023
- One of the things I love about primitive bows and bow building is the seemingly countless variations of this simple and effective primitive weapon. Primitive cultures from all around the world came up with bow and arrow designs to suit the materials and demands of their regions. In areas of the world where "good" bow wood is difficult to find, the Penobscot Bow design allows us to build high performance primitive bows capable of taking big game like deer or elk. The Penobscot design is essentially a variation of the cable backed bow used by several primitive peoples in the far north where high quality selfbow wood is hard to find. In addition, many species of wood can be force dried and fire hardened to yield even better performing archery equipment in a very short time which is exactly what you need for the ideal survival bow. This is also a great advanced survival or bushcraft project! If you're into gaming you may have seen a similar bow in Far Cry Primal, the double bow.
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I was just about to ask about it
Thanks. I was just about to ask you where you bought it :)
Are you from Maine??
Heard the mosquitoes. They are the true enemy! Great video.
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No clickbait, no annoying intro, straight to the point, sponsors discreetly in the corner... What a Man.
Glad you like it
@@stonksrgud7645 I will excuse your error on account of not speaking fluent English however the op clearly asks you your opinion in the video title and goes on to say that this bow is only beneficial when all you can use is inferior wood Did you even watch the video?
@@fatrambo73 The question is presented in a way that's blatantly cickbaity. "Is this the BEST phone?" is going to get a lot more people to click than "comparing the Nokia G400 to the iPhone 11". Yes, Clay admits outright that it's not a great design, but that's not blatantly obvious from the title and thumbnail alone. Clickbait.
@@somewhereelse1235 Considering the video actually delivers content directly related to the title and thumbnail I'd say it's just good advertising and not clickbait.
@@stonksrgud7645 You either did not watch the video, or have no Idea what click bait is.
Its now 4am for me and im watching a man make the coolest bow and arrow ive ever seen this is amazing
Go to sleep! haha
True Bosmer
5;21am for me
0530 for me lol 😅
3:50am for me
I like how you can hear the birds, leaves and the stream in the background. Their is no music over it. It’s nice
Very asmr or whatever
I'm Indonesian but I like your way of adventuring/camping. I pray you and your family are always healthy
I just had a very large brain-slam. I read that you were Indonesian. I thought to myself “Ooh, Indonesia is likely a predominantly Buddhist country due to its location and was going to ask if you were Buddhist (out of curiosity and interest of others’ views, there are not many others in Kentucky) but upon Googling the religious makeup of Indonesia, I’ve learned that it’s predominantly Muslim by a large majority! I was not expecting that, to be honest. Surely there’s some rich history concerning that
You’re a good person. That’s a kind comment. Thank you for existing
I’ve never seen a bow like this and now that you’ve built it, it seems so obvious. That’s awesome
Thanks Dane
That's how the Penobscot tribe from Maine has been making bows for generations using all different types of wood. Most of us have a secret recipe for wood species.
@@m9m471 I was wondering from where it originated thanks
Also Micmac and Abenaki.
@GC yeh, the whole region really, Pennacook, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, Haudenosaunee, Wabanaki, and Cherokee, as well as others right up into Canada.
Been an archer for a long time and I've known about the Penobscot but I've never actually watched anyone make one. This was cool and informational, great stuff man.
I've made quite a few throughout the years, always loved the design, even though adjustability comes at the cost of performance at the end of the day
Makes it look easy with that monster of a knife. I have some serious knife envy ...
@MysteryMan159 lol imma collector I have a few larger. And a favorite bowie about rhe same size. I'd never use them to chop wood though s'what my kukri is for. ^^
@@MysteryMan159 You can quick knapp a curved scraper out of stone for this as well just for fun
same! Im 45 been using my re-curve since I was 10 years old! never heard of this bow!
First-time I'm seeing one of your vids, and I must say, I'm impressed, as a kid, I taught myself how to make and use my own bows and arrows, and with every step through this video, I'm wondering how you're going to deal with the issues I always struggled with like the wood snapping, or not having the right angle of curves, etc. and then you start using different tricks or methods of dealing with it.
Definitely going to be watching more.
Thanks 🙏
It blows my mind how much work and dedication goes into making any bow, and yet, it's such a simple design
This is guy is flat out next level. I’ve been bushcrafting for 30 years and no one does it better than this guy. He was a blast to watch on Alone and practically gave a “how to” demonstration on how to navigate the harsh wilderness. His content on you tube is terrific….he’s a class act.
Thanks much
Aa lo
which season of alone?
@@Ronin.97 Pretty sure Clay won season 8. It’s worth watching (Hulu or Netflix) if you’re into this sort of stuff. There was a guy on Season 6 named Jordan who was also really good along with Roland on season 7 but Clay is really the guy who took the survival game up a peg. I’ve watched all the guys over the years….Mears, Canterbury, Grylls, Les Stroud etc …. But Clay is legitimately enough of an engineer, outdoorsman, Hunter, tracker, bushcrafter etc that he may be the best I’ve ever seen. He wouldn’t look entirely out of place in Frontier Kentucky in 1805.
He really is one of the best
I'm used to seeing full bench and draw knives etc in these bow making videos. Loved the way you used machete both to chop and cleave like hatchet as well as shave and notch like knife. That blade in stump technique is awesome. Great video!
Many thanks
A novel approach to increase draw weight with weaker materials.
Not only do long pieces not have to be used, but it is more practical because the bow is smaller thanks to this. I would bet it will get handy in dense forests. Really nice.
Going to make this a project for me and my son to do over the weekend sometime. Thanks for taking the time and showing us the process of making one! Keep up the awesome work you do.
u are good father, brother
These are actually my personal favorite bow designs. People only really think of these bows as being used with subpar materials, but they can and should be made out of quality materials and craftsmanship as well. Think about it. If this design is so efficient that you can use it with bad materials to make a good bow, what happens when you use that same efficient design with good materials? In my experience. You simply get an extremely well performing bow, possibly better than what you'd get from a two limbed equivalent. Plus the advantage of adjustable draw weight, having two working bows for redundancy and so many other advantages. And it just looks mesmerizing to boot. Awesome bow man!
Hello Sir. What you have written makes good sense to me.
It's also easier to draw and lasts longer and can be left strung for longer periods of Time without loosing power // Imagine back in the day, how efficient this design would've been for war // If you sinew back both pieces, then you could also make a powerfull Short penobscot without the need to add Horn like Asiatic bows normally do for poundage
@@aburoach9268 Exactly. I'm getting into building my own bows, eventually wanna start selling. I'm hoping to settle on a Penobscot design much like that! There's gonna be quite a bit of trial an error though.
@@goofistmcnutty3280 eeeeehhmmm, one step at a time :) I started building bows (step 1) years ago, and in my experience it can take a lot of time to come up with a bow that shoots well and holds a long while. Maybe I am less talented so I had to compensate that with time.
The second thing is to judge which bow design is efficient and durable and why and how you can reproduce good results with a given material. That of course can differ so you need experience what yo can get out of which kind of material.
The third thing would be building bows for trade, where you can put everything you know into offering a good and reliable product, that matches the needs of a customer.
I personally think that there are reasons not to build a penobscot bow, if you dont need to. Because it is simply less convenient and maybe less benefitial with high quality bow woods. Its simply a matter too complex to say that the design just adds performance without any drawbacks (thats rarely the case for any bow design):
For example, I always stumble across the angles with which the small bow is connected to the larger one via the cables. The angle at the tips of the smaller bow are way over 90° in this example, so I would guess that some amount of the gained drawweight is not effecting the acceleration of the arrow because its simply stacking. You draw back and partly draw the smaller bow in length, which takes a lot of force without any advantage. But partly you gain drawweight that is effective, so you can use bowwoods that aren't able to withstand higher forces.
Is that true? I have seen no one testing/measuring that yet. It is just an example for the complexity of that matter.
So before thinking of trading penobscot bows made of yew, osage etc why not start from the beginning. There is a lot of fun and pain and work and experince ahead. :) Enjoy it!
Freakn awesome man I wish I had time to have fun like that.
That was a damn fine bow making! I would never have thought to build one that way, with a reverse short bow to increase the strength of the main bow. That would allow anyone to make a primitive bow out of any wood you find in your area. Thank you for showing us this process! I will remember it forever and be able to show/teach others and make one myself.
Thanks Frank
note the 2 bows are not bound together, they're loosely tied so the self align, and the rear bow is almost half extended when the second starts to bend, or you might as well just get a heavier draw bow :-\
Lovely video. I shoot the stickbow and I appreciate how much skill has gone into making this bow. I didn't know a second smaller bow reversed-curved attached to the first bow could increase its draw weight until I saw this. Thank you!
I love these type of bows since I've discovered them. Definitely want one, but I don't see them commercially available. Also this is becoming my new favorite channel.
I feel like this is far better then most of the "survival" bows I have seen. amazing job.
One of my favorite bows growing up making! It has allot of power for how it’s made. I would get tree wood from my mulberry tree in my back yard cause I could use any wood around my area. This brings allot good memories!
Prob THE greatest and enjoyable back wood bow survivor build ive come across.. sweet design too.
Thanks
Wow, I grew up making my own traditional english D longbows with my dad and brothers and have never seen this style of bow. The final product makes me think that it looks like a compound/traditional hybrid of sorts. Very cool!
That's really cool. English &Welsh longbows are things of beauty
idk about compound, this is easily achievable with the old technology. (all he really needed was some twigs, knife, fire, sinew.) it's definitely clever engineering though
It is a double tension system. The hun and mongols etc use wood and horn together to facilitate the same thing
@@aquarius5264 He said compound and I think you interpreted Cam. It is indeed compound because there are two independent forces acting on one string.
@@WontBSilenced that's not what a compound bow is
I built one of these when I was 12 out of alder wood after I saw it in the Bowyer's Bible. I was able to get 45lb and I think I used a chunk of yellow birch for the 2nd smaller bow. It held up for quite awhile and performed admirably given the materials.
sure you did
@@dack6968 have you tried making a bow before at all? It’s not as hard as it seems, though it’s certainly not a walk in the park.
@@dack6968 I built bows and other weapons at that age.. Why don't you believe it? My dad and I did a bow building contest one week, (probably 14 or so) and I came up with a "novel" (have never seen it before) bow. We were using pine, so I built a leaf spring type of design with increasing thickness in each leaf. It had about a 40lb draw weight and shot arrows very hard. It ended up breaking weeks later after my dad tried pulling it way too far back. It's not that unbelievable that a young guy would have the inspiration to try something not seen before.
@@dack6968 Just because you were probably useless and unimaginative as a kid doesn't mean everyone else was...
@@Scrapps97 sure bud.
I genuinely gasped the first time you drew the bow(s). This is such an ingenious and incredible design, and it just looks amazing
You can feel the power of the shot based on how much the bow itself bent from him pulling it back. Nice job dude
Awesome!
One of the things you demonstrated was the utility of a large working blade over relying on a multitool in a survival situation. This is something of which I'm a big proponent.
I like having both.
I like having both.
He's using a Parang. My experience is admittedly limited, because i only really got into spending a lot of time inthe outdoors after moving west. But I grew up where that's the standard and even then i did occasionally go camping and these are all anyone brought . Inever thought much of them until I had to use all the other garbage that people from other places call field/bushcraft knives. I very quickly grew to regret not appreciating just how good of a tool it was, back when i had easy acess to the real deal. I fking hate machetes. Bowies are ok but limited. Kbars and other military style knives are great if you anticipate ever needing to fight.... but pretty compromised for everything else even though still somewhat functional in a pinch... but compared to literally anything designed where fighting people isn't a serious concern they're just not great. I do not mean to shit on any of the above tools... I know they're all great tools overall. but a good parang is better by far too anything else in ways that's hard to understand till you've used one. As an analogy, Horses are unimaginably good ways to travel too by most standards. They are far better that running or, donkeys or oxes, , or anything else you may use. Saying horses are bad is just foolish.... unlesd you've got a car. SIMILARLY Machetes, Hand axes, tomahawk, all the common stuff... they are great tools and you'd be foolish to discount them for bushcraft.... right up until you've had a good parang.
It more or less IS a multitool. Best design I've ever seen. No idea if condor got it right, but the blade on the ones I've seen back home, are always sharpened by hand and always and at different angles at various points. There's a bit on the belly that is sharpened like an axe for chopping a Broad angle convex edge about 2/3 to 3/4 from the end depending on if it's the parang style and length I'm more familiar with, or the Golok style he's got. Either way, same idea. Then, the handle you've got a really really fine angle and edge, often flat, for whittling and feathering and other fine tasks. Top end is either thick and Squarish for better hacking through underbrush and vines without catching the end and getting damaged, as in Goloks, or curved strongly and sharpened very finely angle and fine angled flat or even concave/ hollow ground, with a strong belly for skinning and filleting tasks, like hunting knives ( held by the blade not at the handle for this) or even pointed, beveled, and Stabby like a leaf blade, for the ones made with consideration of the possibility of combat, or rarely spade-ish and squat, for digging and rooting.. but I've only seen the last once. And i may have misinterpreted that. The point though, being there's a ton of little details that can and do vary for different tasks, just like an SAK... but they're always a multitool and always unmistakably a parang. those things are deliberately built to do everything you can imagine. Side note, Imo, I don't trust Condor or the other large scale manufacturers with these.. I'm sure they're great manufacturers, and their versions better than anything else available where i am, also, DEFINITELY better steel,.. but sharpening things the way I expect isn't likely with machining in factories. I want one badly from back where they originate. Even with worse steel, Hundreds of years of practical experience in the thickest jungles with the thickest growth rainforests, smack Dab on the middle of the equator.... simply can't be beat. Sorry to nerd out here but I've never seen one on a TH-cam video and I'm really happy to find that someone else loves these things too. And if you watch how he uses different parts of the blade for each task, you'll see why I feel like he gets it with these things. It's fun as hell to me to watch him use it, in ways that others may miss. Damn good knife he's got there. I am obviously biased, but I can't think of a better outdoor tool. If you were nuts enough to only ever carry one thing... this ought to be it
@@iantracy378 Bro made me read a book 💀
Just Joking very informative and interesting comment!
Thank you! The whole time I was wondering what type of knife that was
Some amazing techniques displayed. Absolutely love that trick of lodging your blade in the log and using it to shave the wood, surprised I haven't seen it before.
Your videos are currently helping me get through a wave of panic attacks the past couple days which I deeply appreciate. It's gotten to the point where I'm getting my thyroid tested tomorrow. I do thank you though because absolutely nothing has been helping other than breathing exercises.
Hang in there. If I may, I’d recommend checking out a book called “How to think like a Roman Emperor.” Great read with lots of excellent techniques for dealing with life’s struggles.
@@clayhayeshunteri haven't read that book, but i don't know if i'd wasn't too think like a roman emperor. roman emperors were fucking nuts
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. My father taught me survival at an early age. I scoffed and thought nothing of it... until a few years ago.
Tell me more you filthy sod 😂
You the man Clay! The best there is!!
Glad ya liked it!
Clay can be molded into many shapes including chamber pots.
@@masterlee9822nooo i don't wanna be made into a chamber pot
Hey man, just wanted to say that I love your work! I've been trying to build a survival bow for a long time and very few have worked, but with your guidance I have built a few that work! So again, thanks.
Happy to help Daniel
Awesome bow and just goes to show what one can do with what is on hand. That sir, is a survival bow that could be counted on. Well done!
that is awesome, never really thought of combining two bow woods to make a semi recurve bow like that. really neat stuff.
A recurve bends the ends of a bow so that more stress moves from the wood to the string to the arrow with less effort through leverage. Not to be pedantic, it's just when the ends are "re-curved", against the initial curve of the bow. It's like the little swoop on the end of a prybar.
Looks tight! I appreciate the clear process without too much explanation. Just the right amount of detail, in fact. Great tutorial.
Saw that style bow in an old 1930 silent film, "The Silent Enemy." Filmed around Temagami, Ontario and near the Qc/On border. Thanks for going into detail on its construction and what the extra piece on the back of the bow is for.
That is an amazing bow. I had no idea what a Penobscot bow even was until I watched this and he made it look so easy to craft this. Awesome bow, now I want to make one lol.
I liked how this man is straight to the point. You deserve a subscriber
Great primitive bow. I build Penobscots AND Mi Kmaw warbows usually from Hop Hornbeam or White ash. I love the bows and I call them Wabenaki bows. Mine are kind of finished and refined from pretty good staves . I can change tiller with the small strings and have increased draw weight by up to 15 lbs Your bow built from a simple raw stave and a machete is impressive. Thanks for posting
I made a small pistol cross bow with fiberglass rod bow. Never having seen or heard of this design i put a second bow on it in this manner and it increased the pull so greatly that it requires a lever to cock it now. So this design def works as stated.
Besides the increidble functionality and simplicity of the design, this is such a badass looking bow. I cant believe I'd never heard of this bow until very recently
No Fake contruction, like most channels like this one, no girl pretending to do the work while she has an entire team doing the work for her. This is REAL AF. I learned alot from this video, thanks.
bro edited his comment and still couldn't just say 'good vid', had to have a ton of bs in there
@@souljaboy.6668Wow, another offended weakling. Not only that, but I used different wording to express it. Not my fault if you are not smart enough to understand that.
I’ve seen these in illustrations before, never really understood what the advantages of the design were or how one would be tillered out to make a decently functional bow. But your explanation of wood availability and adjustment by string tension makes sense. Thanks for this interesting and informative look at these bows.
Glad to hear
I can really imagine that some clever hunter came up with this thousand years ago and was first laughed at and then everyone in the tribe copied it. Or some hunter finding such a bow hidden in a cave with cave paintings around it giving clues how to make it. Looks epic.
I was wondering when I would finally see a bow like this, idk why it's been in my mind for so long or where I've seen it before
Great Video!
Glad you enjoyed it
hey big fan hope you make more videos lava bladez !
Full of admiration for how you used your machete. Especially the "wood planing/scraping" part. Just awesome!
Thank you for sharing this! I haven’t seen much in my search for pre-European Penobscot culture and this is a real gem. I would love to learn more if you have any suggestions.
Great video Clay. I was alittle late to the party on this but good as always. The bow design and ease to build was cool but your ability to be efficient with it as soon as it is finished amazes me.
Many thanks
The hyperrealism in these videos is so fascinating.
its because of the procedural animation, and its all made in unreal engine
That's very interesting, it's like the primitive version of a compound bow, but instead of pullies you just use another bow.
I was too 🎉high for this comment lmao I'm stuck between trying to make a bow out of dental floss
Huns/mongols also used horns/bone for their compound bows in similar manner
AYO Dawg, we heard you like bows, so we put a bow on your bow...
Pretty awesome I’d love to see a full build video or multi part series on you attempting to make a nice one of these in your shop with all your tools and nicer woods and strings and maybe auction off or use it to take a deer next season or something
This is really cool. I remember Joerg Sprave was experimenting with having two modern bows, but I using it to add strength is new to me.
New bowmakers should pay very close attention to exactly how you use your tools, and adapt to limited tools. The little subtleties are really worth learning. Stuff like rough tillering over your knee, and holding the blade against the wood while you tap the wood to start a notch or a cut.
I really like this bow design! It could be really cool to see something like this as an ornate fantasy bow!
This video didn't need to be this long, I came already when you were taking the bark off the first stick. Most satisfying thing I've watched in months.
Would've been cool to see a game hunted with it/
Outstanding!! Glad you introduced this! Great way to make a bow!!
Thank you very much!
One of the more knowledgeable and skilled bushcrafters I've seen. Good video, man!
I appreciate that!
Wow, what a cool take on a basic bow!! Now I want to see how well this would work with vine maple. That stuff grows like a weed over here in Oregon. I've made simple single stick bows with that after I have dried the sticks for a few months to a year. It works surprisingly well with very little prep other than making notches for the string and smoothing the handle. It is strong and springy enough that even a stick with knots and bends makes an effective bow. I made one with a basic Leatherman knock off using baling twine for a string. The saw from the multi-tool worked really well for cutting notches for the string BTW.
I do like the use of the vertical blade as a stationary scraper, I might have to borrow this idea.
Also from the PNW, I had the exact same thought about trying this with vine maple!
@@user-kz2dk4ly7z it really does work quite well for bows, except that it does not grow very straight. Once properly dried, it has the perfect amount of spring to it and is pretty light weight.
I am truly impressed with my condor mini duku parang. I have had it now for 2yrs and have found it multi functional it as you do clay. It is a great alternative as a forest axe as it chop like a medium to modernly heavy hatch. Great Penobscot Native American design. Super video production Clay. It would be nice to credit the Native Americans for the design.
Keep on bushcrafting and paleo ways of using what nature provides. All the Very Best!
Jim Rodgers
Great video! I have wanted to make a Penibscot for some time. It was a pleasure to watch you make one. I believe it to be the world's first compound bow. Thank you
Incredible! I've lived all my life in the Penobscot area of New England and never heard of a Penobscot bow. All my bow building has been with board wood, due to the poor selection of wood in my area. Gotta try this, but I know it won't go as smoothly as yours did. Tnx's for the education you keep putting out and the next book you haven't written yet.
My first bow 64 years ago was bought for me by my dad on Indian island from the Penobscot' Indians in the middle of the Penobscot River. Small wooden bow made by the native locals. Had so much fun with that bow.
Glad to see some locals on here I am from Greenbush and I am also glad to see the Penobscot tribe being recognized
Same here. North of bangor. I was like "Penobscot bow? sweet!"
never hear about any of this. if there's anything the people living in that part of the continent now hate more than the indigenous people its there culture and history. surprised its not all completely wiped out by now like the people : P
1) Where possible go out cut a selected 2-2.5" Ash or Ironwood sapling...
2) Carefully split in half...
3) Ruffshape inside halves...
4) Clamp into desir'd shape..
5) Store 1month- dry place...
6) Shape into finished form on inside of stick; never the sapwood (or round side)
CAREFUL = easy does it...!
Choose finish best for U...!
I never thought I would ever see someone whittle with such a large blade! Awesome bow and video!
you have a compas, a ruler in your eyes and a bubble level in you hand ! big respect
I love how this method basically combines a lightweight longbow with a small curved botw to basically add up their draw weights, that's really good thinking
@@tombspider1990 fair, but i only have 3 hands
@@tombspider1990 was a silly joke xd
Two thoughts, 1.) I actually use that exact same Fire Tempering Technique for Bamboo Flute Making and was wondering if it would be useful in Making Bows... Thanks for satisfying my curiosity :). 2.) The bow itself is a pretty snappy shooter for what it is, and it really does send an arrow down range with authority.
And on that day, Kage Stelhman unknowingly took the first step on a dark path, ending in much chaos and destruction as the pan-flute of death claimed countless souls.
I like the bow. I used to make bows for fun when i was a kid. This takes me back. Can we talk about that chopper? What an edge!
So much I learned on technique in this video. So much I haven’t seen in others. Stuff I see and you didn’t even talk about. Awesome.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Always impressed with your builds, takes me weeks to get to close to a finished tiller, wish i could build a bow in 24 hrs.
I'm a archery enthusiast. I must say great job and very well done. I like it alot and would say it's a keeper. Damn good man.
Yo the pure bow ASMR @24:34 is some of the most satisfying sounds I've ever heard
Bros quite literally doing the upgraded version of things i did as a child,but i did them with a scissor. Very impressive and cool stuff!
I forget what game it was many years ago but it was called a double bow in there. I thought it was cool and when I looked it up I found some history on the Penobscot bow which was made, as you've said, because of the qualities of the wood in their area not being good for traditional designs. Nice to see you making one and showing how one can be made pretty easily with little in the way of resources. I may have to try one myself some time.
Far Cry Primal?
@@LiteraryCurtastrophe Thats not the one I'm thinking of, but it is cool and realistic, and probably much more known than the one I was. It was probably 15-20 years ago and more fantasy rpg styled. It could've been any of dozens i'd tried out around that time but didn't hold my interest. The game itself didn't really matter. XD
Very cool, I have made both 4 and 6 limb Mollegabet style Penobscot bows as you can see on my channel. I love these bows and their strength. Especially if you make them Mollegabet style. (Although I may be the only one who makes them like that.)
I made mine out of red oak 1"X3"x6' boards from Lowes and Home Depot. So the width of the limbs are 2.5" till you get to the levers making it some st indestructible. Red Oak tree is the only decent wood I can get where I live But they turned out great and are my favorite self made bows!
Thanks for this video & God bless ya!
These bows were known thousands of years ago, and they are awesome!
This is really solid work, thanks for sharing. I also recommend Ryan Gill with Primitive Archery. I'm a bladesmith but I've made a handful of bows, I love the way these bows look. I'm definitely going to try making a couple.
Cool, thanks
@clayhayeshunter1 2 b6 woopI😊😊
I played far cry primal and learned of this bow from the game. Pretty cool to see someone actually make one! Great job! Awesome knife!
Thank ya
I've seen plenty of this style of bow on TH-cam simply for the cool factor, but given my limited knowledge of bow making, I'd never considered how or why this design would make sense over using a simple bow design with good wood
Being able to use smaller pieces around you to make a higher poundage bow shows the genius of the smaller forelimbs when trying to survive with limited supplies. EXCELLENT video, my friend
Glad you enjoyed it
Thats Far Cry Primal bow!
i cant believe they added it to real life!
Tools and craft..great stuff😊 Reminds me of Finnish heritage. Now I have a better idea of 'drawing out' a curve; and pre and post hardening considerations. Fantastic demo and necessary verbal instructions 💪🏻👏🏻
Go for it!
I made one with junk bike parts and springs because it just seemed to make the most sense efficiency wise. Glad to know the correct terminology.
That "chopping into the log to use as a scraper" trick was cool.
Been playing in the woods for years , but at 71 this video floors me . Shockingly aggressive with the parang but loved it 😊
The coolest part was, imo, the inner bark peel.
There is a tip for tightening the secondary bow strings: slide a piece of wood up in between the strands that is long enough to rest in the main bow. Twist that to tighten or loosen as necessary. That way thwre is no need to re-tie those knots :)
Like a frame saw. Might be harder on the string though.
I don't see what you mean.
@@anomalyp8584 There are two strings that attach the ends of the small bow to the larger bow. If you slide a stick between the strands of one of those strings, you can then spin the stick perpendicularly to tighten the string. And if the stick is the right length, it will stop the string from unwinding. If you're still confused, it's the same principle used in old frame saws. You can see it in the video "Making the Frame Saw | Paul Sellers" at 34 minutes and 54 seconds.
@whynotdean8966 yhe stick might fall out of place when pulling the bow though. Or at least its a possible failire. That twist idea is a good idea though instead of loosening the string, maybe it could be places on the end of the string somehow. Surely it could be done with modern tools but idk how in a lomitted woodsman way
@@whynotdean8966 ah!! That made it click! Thanks!
I like this guy... using sharp things and fire in nature to make stuff! especially a cool bow I never heard of! and im old school use a re-curve only
Beautiful. The whole process and the result .. i am in awe :,)
Awsome work dude !
I have built such bows as well and I personally think, that they are just a lot of fun to make :D
Your bow looks very beautiful :)
They’re fun for sure
Love this video. And I like the fact you did it with nothing but the machete. It shows how this can be accessible to anyone willing to try!
You have amazing videos Clay! Subscribed. I'm also teaching my son survival and hunting, as my father has taught me and my ancestors survived for thousands of years in south-eastern Europe. It's beautiful to see other perspectives from people from another continent. I will surely obtain your book and read through! Keep up the amazing work!
Thanks
@@clayhayeshunterHow many yards does it reach?
Thank you for posting this. Great work
I have been doing archery for nearly 30 years. And know people that make trad bows of all shapes and sizes but never seen one of these being used. Great job and very impressive work
This is really cool! It looks like the same basic concept of two bows against each other could be made with bamboo, too. (bamboo being more readily recognizable than bow wood, where I live.)
I'm surprised the bow works so well with that string. this is an interesting way to make a laminated bow without actual laminated materials. very awesome!
Thank you very much!
Great craftsmanship with just a knife, fire, string, good eye and feel. Thank you for the post.
Many thanks
These bows are so amazingly designed with what resources are provided. It shows just how resourceful and talented people were
Amazing build, love that machete and the way you scrape the faces flat. Thanks for posting another great video.
Just came across your channel. Really brings me back to making bows myself as a boy. I could've learned so much. We would've gotten along great!
Welcome aboard!
I have exam tomorrow and i didn't prepared anything and watching this man build a coolest wooden bow!!💥
Very cool. Before there were compound bows, there was the Penobscot bow.
for the best results - ensure small bow is centred and string tension is the same both sides. measure one string length / side with a stick or similar, then check to other side. a wonky bow by even the smallest amount drastically reduces its potential power
This bow looks AMAZING! Looks also durable!
Very nice video! :3
This is surprisingly useful to know I live in the city so going out to places like this is more of luxury.