How to Make Your First Long Bow from a Sapling. Light Weight Longbow for Beginners

How to Make Your First Long Bow from a Green Sapling. Light Weight Self Longbow for Beginners. Here's a simple project for any of you that are aspiring bowyers - a very lightweight self bow in the style of an English Longbow designed to help beginners achieve their first success. I show you how to make longbow from scratch - turning a freshly felled sapling into a shallow-limbed 'longbow' to give experience understanding wood, bowyer's tools and aids as well as an insight into that perpetual bow making challenge - tillering a bow. The bow is deliberately made very light to help you achieve your fist success. Failure in the early attempts at bow making can be very discouraging and using green wood is a quick and easy way to gain some experience. Using green wood also reduces fear of failure. Making your first bow from a long seasoned and possibly expensive wood can be nerve racking experience which often results in apprehension - the fear of making a mistake. But green wood seems to alleviate this worry - after all it's easy to find green wood so you can proceed with more confidence knowing that getting another piece of wood will be quite easy. Good luck with your first bow and longbow archery!