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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DiGi on January 02, 2011, 09:25:23 pm

Title: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: DiGi on January 02, 2011, 09:25:23 pm

What are the top 10 tools that a bowyer needs to have to start out besides wood? Also, where could one obtain these tools?

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: beetlebailey1977 on January 02, 2011, 09:31:28 pm

A good axe or hatchet, a rasp, a scraper, and a rat tail file.

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: Lombard on January 02, 2011, 10:49:31 pm

DiGi, welcome to PA. Happenstance would have that there was a recent discussion of that very topic. You may find some of the posts of interest.

Here is the link http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,23044.0.html

Flea markets, yard sales, and estate auctions can be excellent sources for all kinds of tools.

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: sailordad on January 02, 2011, 11:18:44 pm

patience
antique draw knife,the newer ones dont work as well
rasp or sureform ( i like a sure form my self )
scraper(s)
tillering gizmo
sandpaper
chainsaw file (for making knocks)
tillering stick/tree(i use a stick and it work just fine for me )
scale
patience

top 10 as i see it  ;D

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: DiGi on January 02, 2011, 11:23:48 pm

Thanks guys, big help!

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: RidgeRunner on January 03, 2011, 10:17:33 am

I think I would put a Good, Well Mounted 4" shop vice right under patience on my list.

David

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: crooketarrow on January 03, 2011, 10:34:44 am

   SAILORDAD and  RIDGERUNNERs got it right.

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: George Tsoukalas on January 03, 2011, 10:40:26 am

There are buildalongs on my site. Jawge
http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: Buckeye Guy on January 03, 2011, 01:33:45 pm

Want to
If you collect enough want to it will happen other wise it will all fade into nothing !!

Bows can and often are made with very few tools .

just a hatchet or pocketknife
sometimes only a piece of stone or glass
But you have to want to

After you collect enough want to!
The bigger question is what tools will it take to stop you from being a boyer

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: Frode on January 03, 2011, 02:49:26 pm

Well said, Buckeye!
Frode

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: Grunt on January 03, 2011, 04:22:36 pm

Get a good bow building book or take a workshop with an experianced bowyer.

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: JackCrafty on January 03, 2011, 04:45:15 pm

After catching up on youtube videos, I must say that some of the bushcraft guys are really doing a great job making survival and beginner bows.  I'm convinced that you could get by with just a good quality machete and bending the bow over your knee (to check tiller).  I'm going to start using one myself.

Otherwise, you can get by with a hatchet, a knife, a wood file, and lots of time.  :)

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: Gordon on January 04, 2011, 01:24:39 am

hatchet, rasp, knife and a sharpening stone

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: 1776J on January 04, 2011, 02:20:58 am

One of the best tools I've run across are the people on this forum,....
the advice from helpful, down to earth and knowledgeable people,...!
 ;)

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: anton on January 07, 2011, 03:39:32 pm

I just got a scraper shave from lee valley tools and it is sweet, can't wait to tiller a bow this weekend with it.. I have had the dean torges bowyers edge and this is different (scraping angle) but much better functioning and beutifully made. check it out
http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/page.aspx?cat=1,310&p=54883

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: aznboi3644 on January 07, 2011, 04:51:25 pm

Only tools I have and use

8" chefs knife I found in my parents basement.
14" gerber machete from dicks.
sureform rasp
4 way rasp
some scissors as scrapers
and some small files for nocks.

You dont even need a tool for nocks really...I've fallen in love with skinny tips and tie on nocks...tips are too narrow to file grooves

Title: Re: Must Have Tools of the Beginning Bowyer
Post by: Bernhard Langbogen on January 07, 2011, 05:54:24 pm

I use for bowmaking my bandsaw, rasp, drawknife, spokeshave, scraper and handplane.

Bernhard