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You Really Got Me

Long Way Back playing 'You Really Got Me' by The Kinks at The Blacksmith's Arms, Caterham on Friday 18th December 2015

Tillering a 100lb Laminate English 'Warbow' Part Two

Tillering a 100lb Laminate English 'Warbow' Part Two. One of the biggest challenges for me during the making of longbows is tillering - the even distribution of tension and compression throughout the limbs. It always seems to me more of an art than a skill. Every single bow is a new journey - and not always with a happy ending. So when I was asked to make a video about how to tiller a laminate longbow I put it off for a long, long time. But one of the commonest questions I'm asked is How do I find wood to make a longbow/warbow? - and I have to admit the easiest way to obtain wood and gain experience in tillering is not finding some yew, elm or ash but by using a pre-shaped laminated stave. In this video I show my method of tillering such a stave.

Stave supplier:

USA Merch
UK Merch

Check out these videos for bowyers and warbow archers:

Swiftwood Bows Beautiful bows, perfect technique, excellent bow making guides



Richard Head Longbows. Expert tillering.



Heritage Longbows. A longbow on the tiller twice the weight of mine.



Clay Hayes. Tillering an American longbow



Del Cat. Insights in to every aspect of bow making



Joe Gibbs. Superb warbow technique.



Nick Keogh's Instagram. An inspirational journey into longbow and Warbow archery.



John Turton. Warbow technique



Ian Sturgess. Boston Bows. Heavy self bow.



I'm Mick Grewcock, retired from business and now self-learning the arts of longbow- and film-making. Join me in my light-hearted quest for knowledge as I learn to combine the ancient woodworking craft of bow-making with digital videography and film making - I'd be delighted to have you for company on this bizarre journey combining digital and primitive technology.

I have a deep passion for the medieval English longbow, the great warbow - the powerful version of the English longbow that earned its fearsome reputation during the Middle Ages, notably the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the ferocious battle fields of France and England during the One Hundred Years War (and in the hands of Robin Hood too!). It is an iconic weapon - and to this day, exudes heritage and awesome power.

Lots of bow making on my channel - do browse, view, like comment and subscribe. I have videos on making yew, hazel, elm and blackthorn longbows as well as many others related to primitive and instinctive archery, target archery arrow and bow making. In my videos you will see and hear what it is like to self learn bow making. I am self-taught as a bowyer - learning the hard way to work wood to make a bow - and still discovering every day. Sometimes I fail, sometimes I succeed; but I'm always learning. I also explore the UK's rural landscape, sometimes in search of bow making woods, discovering survival skills, sometimes in search of the glories of this landscape.

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Useful book for aspiring bowyers

Some basic bow-building tools:

Wolverine pocket folding saw
Bear Grylls Machette
Inexpensive hand axe
Bahco wood rasp
Block plane
Spoke shave
Draw Knife
Cabinet scrapers
Dial calliper
200lb hanging scale
Boiled linsed oil
Tung oil

Majority of my filming is done with Panasonic GH4 & GH5 4K cameras. I edit using iMovie and Final Cut Pro and use a MacBook Pro and iMac 27.

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