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http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php Trust me...this site contains answers to what you ask. Bow Section and great Build-a-long section. D

How about one of these...? http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=51560&cat=1,46096 or this? http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=51541&cat=1,46096,46100&ap=1 D

just to add to your thread...here is a great tutorial for an English Long Bow, including a detailed section on horn nocks.... I stumbled onto this last night - can't believe the wealth of info. General bow stuff: http://leatherwall.bowsite.com/TF/lw/THREADSX2.CFM bow tutorial...

http://nativeskills.madduckoutdoors.com/indian_weapons.htm Found this, and thought it was very interesting. On the page, top left corner, click "up" to get more stuff. Cheers, D

...not to laugh at your misfortune, but I've turned left into right and right into left on many of my projects - just a quick slip of the pattern and I'm so focused on cutting the parts out that I don't realize I've mixed it up until the damage is done.....ah well, now you can become...

just keep at it - try another one!! ...remember too that some files are case hardened and will not make proper knives. Someone with more metalurgical knowledge will fill us in..... j

Well - it seems as though I have you folks beat...and be thankful that my photo is of my hand today, not how it looked on March 13, 1989. It was a mess. Got it caught up in a multiple bladed table saw, I was cutting lathe for surveyors. I'm pleasantly happy that I actually have a right hand -...

http://www.wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/traps/paiute/paiute01.html shows a couple of trigger close-ups....should sort you out. D

Why not try to make yourself a cattail leaf decoy? Or a childs doll of cattail? http://www.nativetech.org/cattail/catduck.htm http://www.nativetech.org/decoy/DecoyInstr.htm ....how about making a roycroft frame? http://www.primitiveways.com/pack_frame.html D PS...of coures, photos are...

You have the unique experience of experiencing spring weather in Alberta. Although it's a shoulder season, it really can be -30C or +10C....with no snowfall, or 2 feet of snow....it can be blustery or calm....it might melt all day long and freeze solid at night. Oldsoldier is correct...

I haven't read the tutorial you mention, but when I polish blades, I be sure to use different stroke directions with different grades....if you find you still have scratches when moving to a finer grit - go back up one coarser grit and do it again....work that elbow grease! laugh. D

Toddy - the last nettle cord I made, I followed advice given by you in an earlier thread. You suggested "refining" the raw fibres...or something like that.. :) I took my fibers I had collected and rapidly rubbed them between my palms, broke off all the chaff and was left with amazingly clean...

excellent link....I'll have to give that a try. D

Thanks Troy - I understand that method. I want to attempt a bow with all natural fibers, but also don't want to break my bow... Toddy - the "other end wrapped around itself" is my method of tying a "constrictor knot" or timber hitch....although I think it has other names too. cheers all, D

any suggestions for making the loops Toddy? I would use a constrictor knot on one end, but a loop on the other. D