How To Bend Wood Into Recurve Bow?

Bending a black locust stave for a deflex-recurve bow project.
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[DreamcraftBows]

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[Mamabrew]

It’s amazing how effortlessly it bends🙌🏼 so cool!!

[shady]

How long do you boil it? What type of wood was that?

[Kyt_]

In my experience, if you don't glue a lam on to it, it "unfurls" after a year or 2. Have you noticed the same?

[kevenbouchard]

Any reliable sources to learn more about this crafting art?

[mr.diontoahmed]

I don't understand one thing:

If you steam it and bend, it's absorbing moisture, which is a horrible thing for a bow.

Don't you have to cure it once more after recurving it?

[leonardourruticoechea]

Cuanto tiempo lo dejas en el vapor para q sea asi de maleable?

[mobchan]

Thanks ...! now i can craft my own Balista! 😊

[orotewilderness]

I thought I was watching plagued moth for a sec haha, nice build!

[j.robertvillarreal]

that was beautiful. does boiling the wood work also?

[briankepner]

Wow you're incredible actually I'd love to see you if you had a full bow steam box if you can form a bow in one shot? Maybe I'm asking a lot. Thank you for sharing your skills and product. I personally enjoyed the fact that you're doing it low tech maybe we have a chance to survive as a humanity if people keep important basic skills.

I'd love to see a video where you're making the string. Out of materials that we can source when civilization falls

[ZecaPinto]

You will need to make separated pieces. Őr else the bow will break on the bends of the handle

[bklynshelify]

Can you do it in different colored woods thank you

[tehfuqizginon]

Dang looks like alot of work! Ever made a bow out of walnut?

[АнатолийШвачкин-ьл]

Глупость, зачем сгибать!!!Уменьшать амплитуду т.е.мощь!!

[scottlaugher-flintknapping]

My dad made bows and won international championships with them. I've seen him produce a bow from the start....I think he'd laugh if he saw this. There's a very great deal of work and serious craftsmanship involved to make the real thing.