Primitive Bow Building for Beginners - selecting a selfbow stave

Selecting a good stave for your wood bow is the first step in building your own primitive self bow. Here Clay Hayes draws on decades of bow building experience to discuss the characteristics of bow staves of several species including osage orange, pacific yew, and oceanspray. Some of the topics include reading the bark and spiral to evaluate propeller twist, knots and other imperfections, length, crown (tree diameter), etc. This video is part of my online primitive bow building class which can be found at www.patreon.com/clayhayes . This online class will take you step by step through the bow making process. It covers everything from preparing the bows back to recurves, flatbows, and longbows and even how to make a two piece take down bow. Throughout this course Clay builds bows of several species including osage orange, hickory, pacific yew, eastern redcedar, etc. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel. We're uploading a new video each week that features one of the following topics: bowhunting, bow building, survival skills, bushcraft, self reliance, primitive technology, primitive bows, hunting, camping, fishing, and a lot more! Big thanks to our partners who help support these videos! https://www.3riversarchery.com/ https://seekoutside.com https://orioncoolers.com You can also connect with me on my other media outlets! Website: https://www.twistedstave.com/ Facebook:   / clayhayeshunter   Instagram:   / clayhayeshunter   Patreon:   / clayhayes