Some of my selfbows

[Unknown]

Great looking bows.

 

[Mtn_Nomad]

Haven't dove into the self bow world yet but Ive followed you and your work for several years on Instagram. Keep up the good work!

 

[Dougfir]

Your bows are beautiful! I made a bunch when I was younger and killed my first deer with this ash bow. I made some for my kids when they were young too, but haven't hunted with one (or any other bow) for a long time. Here in northern NY, there's very little incentive to bowhunt and it's tough enough with a rifle... They are darn fun to walk around the woods with though, whether you're looking for deer, or just shooting stumps.

 

[Cedarsavage]

Another hickory board. Can’t remember why I did the z splice, probably needed to get a grain structure I liked.

 

[Cedarsavage]

Probably smoothest drawing self bow I’ve made. Think it was 2.5” wide

 

[TheWarriorYeti]

Really attractive bows!! I've made several, mostly Catawba and Cherokee style (very simple bend-through handle rectangular design) in black locust and plains style gull wing bows in Osage, none so nicely finished as these. I shoot flared nocks with the common Indigenous assisted pinch grip. I fell love with a replica Comanche gull wing bow and short plains arrows, very accurate and easy to shoot with a short draw to the chin. You don't have to look where you're nocking the arrow, just keep your eyes on the target, grab the arrow from the bow hand, nock and push the bow to the target and release in a fluid motion. Surprisingly accurate, I can see why so many cultures fell in love with this design.

 

[LandSeig]

Fine work!
Here is one I made from hickory off of my property. The leather and sinew on the handle and quiver were from a deer I shot. The string is yucca. My goal is to make the bow, string, quiver, arrows, and stone points from native materials and take an animal with it.
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[Speaks]

Ive made a bunch but the last one was at least 10 years ago. Funny that I dont have a clue where most of my bows have ended up over the course of various moves but I know exactly where my piles of staves are. I dont think I have any osage, it was always hard for me to source. I likely have a pile of hickory from when I lived in IA, along with some maple and hophornbeam from my cabin in WI.

I have really wanted to do one with black locust but never come across one in a place I could cut.

 

[streamguy]

Beautiful bows. The only wood bows I've made i cheated on - bamboo backed hickory.