How To Make A Longbow With An Axe detailed DIY woodworking, bow making video by Chop With Chris shows approaches and techniques to making a bow with a backing using an axe. Related videos: ...

Learn how to make a bow and arrow by hand in this step-by-step tutorial. Clay Hayes shows you how to make a bow you can take bowhunting.

They make longbows and arrows for customers all around the world, and run courses in longbow craft. “We make only longbows,” says Stratton.

My bow has a “draw weight” of 100lb, which means it requires the equivalent of 100lb in weight to draw the string to its most effective distance. I barely had the strength.

Compound bows can be really sophisticated in design using pulleys and some exotic materials, but you can make your own with a few nuts and bolts, PVC pipe, string and a tyre inner tube.