Northern Olive (Chionansis ramifolia)
Cutting wood with stone hatchet from an earlier video
Splitting log with a stone chisel
Notice that the wood twists
Splitting off wood from one side of one end
Turn bow around and remove wood from the opposite side at the other end
Now the wood is straight
Tapering the width of the bow to the tips
Tappering the depth of the bow to the tips
Narrowing the handle width slightly. The depth of the handle is left alone it is to keep it stiff.
String notches.
Finished stave
Unknown tree with fibrous bark
Stripping bark
This type of tree is resilient and grows back quickly
Separating inner bark fiber
Separating inner bark strips
A strip of fiber is twisted clockwise. Then it is wound anti clockwise around the other strip and so on.
By doing this the fibers will stay together due to being unable to unravel
More lengths of fiber can be added to lengthen the cord by twisting them onto the ends of the other fibers
Finished string
A loop is put onto one end of the bow and the other end is tied on while the bow is bent with the knee using 2 half hitches
Bow is slightly asymetrical
Wood is scraped off to make it bend evenly
Finished bow
Cutting a sapling
Scrapping off bark
Carving a string nock at the narrow end of the stick
A bush turkey
Some feathers dropped by a bush turkey
Splitting feathers
Cutting one feather into three parts
Stripping ends of feathers
Tree resin
Sticking feather on with resin (feathers make arrows fly straight)
Lashing feather with bark fiber strand
Fire sharpening the thick end of arrow
Trimming feather with a hot coal
6 arrows
Using bark to make a quiver
Shooting a log target at 10 meters
Arrow sticks in well
Bow and Arrows