Add speed, power, and durability to ANY wooden bow in under 2-hours!
Learn this simple and inexpensive [yet very powerful] method for backing your wooden bow to add speed, performance, and durability!
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$8.99
Regular price
Why back a wooden bow?
Many primitive and ancient cultures backed their wooden bows to add durability and performance. Different materials were used including sinew, snakeskin, and rawhide. In this course, Bowyer Dave Mead, will teach you how to back your own wooden bow using common, inexpensive, and natural materials. He'll also show you how to make your own natural HIDE GLUE using Gelatine Packets. Did you know that Gelatin is actually boiling animal hides in powdered form? Hide glue is what many primitive cultures would have used to back their own bows.
What are other students saying?
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It can't get any eaasier
Frank Hart
Simple, straight to the point and efficient. Excellent class.
Simple, straight to the point and efficient. Excellent class.
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Jean-Alain Virginie
Loving it. I'm in Australia and will have to find similar materials here. Thank you.
Loving it. I'm in Australia and will have to find similar materials here. Thank you.
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Great
Jerry Landis
Good content, easy going style.
Good content, easy going style.
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Appropriate
Thomas Colstad
well explained
well explained
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Course curriculum
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1
Welcome to Class!
- Welcome & a few important notes.
- Materials
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Backing Your Bow
- STEP 1: Preparing Your Bow
- STEP 2: Preparing Materials & Backing Your Bow
- STEP 3: Finishing & Detailing
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3
Final Thoughts
- Testing, Next Steps, & Final Thoughts
Materials Needed to Finish Course Project:
Backing Materials:
- Knox gelatin 4 packets = 1 small box at grocery store/Walmart $1.50
- Heavy Duty Canvas Drop Cloth 6x9 for $9.99 at Walmart (any size will do but get heavy duty) all can be found on Amazon as well
- Water
Tools:
- scissors
- file
- mug/jar
- pot or warmer/double boiler
Meet Your Instructor
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Bowyer
Dave Mead
Dave Mead is the founder of Mead Longbows, a renowned bowyer, author and illustrator. Dave has been teaching how to build beautiful high-performance bows for many years. His work has been featured in countless on and off-line publications including Primitive Archer Magazine and American Survival Guide Magazine.