Making a black locust self bow with the use of hand tools. I hollowed knot right above the handle and managed to turn this character stave into centershot style bow. Quite an exciting and teaching experience! The bow ended up drawing 30lb at 28″. I named it “Cyclop”.

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40 Comments

  1. Man now I gotta try that design out that looks like trip with that big knot gana bee keeping my eye out for some wood that'll be good for it! Great work man always love your builds

  2. Nice Bow! What is the whole diameter? I have a piece of juniper with a whole in the center of the stave. Thanks for sharing!

  3. Wow man amazing! Just when I thought I've seen it all, you build this monster!!!!!! LOL! You cease to amaze me with your designs …. but could you shoot rubber vaned arrows with it? Great job & God bless ya!

  4. You can't have it more center shot than that 😊. It looked a bit tricky to tiller as well. Do you feel it is more precise being center shot?

  5. Привет друг. Я вижу ты используешь акацию для изготовления лука. Я её сразу узнал так как сам тоже использую. Крутой лук кстати 🙂

  6. Very nice; I saw one of these for the first time just a few days ago in a movie. I thought it was just something they did for the show, but I guess they are a real thing. Nice looking bow- great job, as usual.

  7. Glad you put a 'reminder' on for this vid!! I'm inspired again by the kick- butt bows you're making.. so damn sweeet!!

  8. After watching this video I have realise where I was making mistake trying to bent black locust stave! Thx man!

  9. Although it's not as accurate or precise as the other bows, it does prove the significance of your skill since the hollow part was a weak spot that you somehow managed to work with. It's brilliant and cool looking

  10. I was just thinking about making a bow like this cause I thought it was an original design. Now I dont even wanna make a bow

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