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preparing a primitive self bow for shooting... - aleshanee - 09-08-2022
a good video from kevin hicks.... the warwick castle archer.. .. on how to prepare a
traditonal self bow for shooting.... (or a bow made out of a single stave of wood)....
.... everything he does here is great advice... . i do most of it the same way he does
with my bows that are self bows.. . there are a few things i do differently.... for one
.. i don;t stand a bow on the floor on either limb to store it.. ... i have seen severe
curvature and weakning of a lower limb on other archers bows who have done that..
.
i have a bow rack similar to a gun rack that my bows lay horizontal on.. (with arrow
quivers suspended from the hangers).... .. and i also keep a strip of seal skin wrapped
around the riser on the arrow contact point to prevent the kind of burn in.... (or wear
in)... he describes, that carved a groove in his bow... and i also use regular tru-oil made
for gun stocks to oil mine... i also oil my wood traditional hunting arrows with true oil too
.... and then both are waxed with gun stock wax made by the same company....
...... ..... (birchwood casey).....