Print this pageLong Bow Making
Dates: 2 courses in 2012:
17th - 20th March and 1st - 4th June
Location: Burntwood, Golbardon Rd., Pensilva, Cornwall PL145RN
Contact numbers: Tim : 01208 850670 or Terence on 01579 363523
Max number of people 6-8
Tutors: Terence Carr and Tim Hutton
The course cost £295 plus £30 for materials for 4 days includes tea, coffee, homemade cooked lunch.
Arrive at 9am for a 9.30am start and the course runs through to 5pm each day.
Coffee, tea, biscuits/cake are supplied along a cooked lunch.
Bring clothes for an English summer so include waterproofs just in case.
Where to stay: Camping or a local B and B
Tools to bring: All tools and wood will be provided. Bring drawknife, spokeshave, scraper, axe if you have them and want to use them.
Course schedule:
Day one:
Introductions and course outline.
Introduction to the longbow, naming of parts,
Shooting the bow, safety, technique.
Different designs of longbow, from archaeology, history –to the modern day.
Books and other sources
Type of wood, selecting wood. Choice of cleft local ash stave or lemonwood blank. Option to back the bow with vellum or hickory lath.
Choose design and start marking up
Axe work and roughing out
Drawknife work
Day two
Making a bowstring from linen
Shaping the bow
Floor tillering and tillering. Draw weights.
Cutting the nocks.
Stringing the bow.
Day three
Arrows , length, woods, fletching. Making an arrow with goose quills
Using scrapers and files. Continue Tillering
Day four
Finishing the bow,
Oiling
Shooting the finished bow
To Book a place phone or email Terence at hernebows@ymail.com