Bow Building

This starter kit includes everything you need to start making your own bow. Includes:

• A Fast Flight® Tillering Rope - The bottom is pre-tied in a bowyers knot for your convenience. This all Fast Flight® construction produces the longest lasting tillerin...read more

Master Bowyer and owner of Rattlestick Bows, Gary S. Davis, shares his 27 years of bow building passion in this all encompassing 2½ hour DVD!

Gary is one of the most experienced and prolific bowyers working today. In this comprehensive DVD he shares his vast...read more

The StavePress is the perfect bowyers tool! It holds wood firmly and gently, preserving the integrity of the wood grain as you work your stave. The StavePress was designed to firmly hold irregularly shaped wood such as rough staves, or hand-carved furniture pieces without harmin...read more

Osage lumber for building laminated wood bows. This lumber does not follow growth rings and a backing strip of some sort is required. Approx. 5/8" x 1½" x 72". Extra shipping required. Please note that our supply is limited and availability may change.read more

All 1-1/2" laminations are 36" long with a .001 per inch taper. Sold by the pair.

• Taper of .001 per inch
• Sold by the pair
• Approximately 36" x 1-1/2"

See Printable Bow Lamination Chart PDF<...read more

Fiberglass is the most popular and dependable backing material you can use when building a laminated bow. Gordon's fiberglass is the brand of choice for bowyers all over the World, from professionals to novice alike. What makes this fiberglass great for bow building is that it is...read more

Less expensive than real snakeskin, yet just as attractive, these Artificial Snakeskin Backings are an affordable and effective way to back your bow. Available in Rattlesnake and Copperhead, these cloth backings apply easily, and with just a coat of finish will have all of the...read more

Similar to the old "Coopers" bench, or the German schnitzelbank workbench. This bench is heavy duty, and with a little leg pressure, securely holds your bow in place while you work. (Bow and tools not included). Seat height is 24". Assembly required.

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Easy to mix, easy to use. For all laminated bows. Works for bamboo backed bows too. This is the epoxy that nearly every bowyer in the United States uses. For use on fiberglass laminated bows and any other wood-to-wood or wood-to-bamboo applications. Sold as a 2 pint set (one p...read more

These are quality Hickory backing strips for bowmaking. Whether you're backing a solid bow or gluing up several laminations, the Hickory backing is a durable backing. Grain configurations vary and the strips are approximately 1/8" x 1.5" x 68"-72". Extra ship...read more

Use these sleeves to either convert one of your bows to a take-down, or make one from scratch. Solid, rugged and simple. Brass sleeve slides into steel handle. Classic "D" shape for comfort. The small sleeve measures, 5-1/4" x 1-1/2" x 1-1/4". The larg...read more

Bamboo is arguably the best primitive bow backing material available anywhere and our bamboo backing strips are planed flat on the belly so you won't have to do the work. With the belly side of the bamboo planed flat all that's left to do is to rough it up prior to gluing up t...read more