I love your stuff man. I’ve been watching your content for years. Some of my favorite bows to make and shoot are red oak and hickory short board bows. One of my hunting bows is a 47” n2n 55lb @ 20” hickory board self bow and another is a rawhide backed 47” n2n red oak bow drawing 41-42lb @ 23” made from a 0.5” thick red oak 1x2x48

Hello John - another gem, arrows take just as long as bows sometimes ! Merry Christmas to you an yours have a great holiday

I have some scraps of Osage I plan on making a few shafts with. I'm sure I'm not the first. Any thoughts on Osage shafts?

Merry Christmas brother 🤙🏻

It's Christmas day and I like to wish you and your family a very merry Christmas on this fine day . From NZ we wish you all a merry Christmas 🎄

Happy holidays to y'all and thank you for plugging the arrows. Cool

Merry Christmas, Mr. Box of Chocolates

Great stuff. It is great to hear your expertise on these ancient bows.

John that was fascinating I could hypothesise like that for hours

I can't say, but with only speculation to not seeing the original arrow, but could it have been switched to a bow drill. Sinew wraps keep string from traveling and the foreshafts would make for minimal travel of materials to switch between a point or a dry fire starter. This has been an idea I have played around with in my head. I'm not a big fan of foreshafts... yet. I'm still working on perfecting it in my system.

I left out my idea of what the bows were like. I betcha they used high elevation yew.

One of Geronimos bows is in the Bass Pro museum at Springfield Mo. it’s an Osage reflex deflex at about 48”

All my scam emails go to spam Wow this unreal. I remember you stated something about a couple years ago to separate ourselves from social media

I just don’t think I’ll ever have time to practice enough to be really accurate with my plains bows. For me it’s like pistol shooting vs rifle. I shoot rifles pretty well cold, but pistols? That takes substantial practice!!! Native Americans shot this way practically from birth!

Haha, the worldly pipe is truly a double edged sword. There's great content like your channel and then there's insane scammers with no ethics and too much time on their hands. Thanks for the recipe.

Major brain trauma for Willy Wonk😅 Great to hear and see you this morning. Money maker from way back. $ for what you love to do. Thanks

When I send you a email is that me contacting you or immediately making a purchase?

Works of art. Love the bows. Friend of the woods. Thank you for the time 😊

Lotta work. Nice Thank you

I just finished sinewing a 40” gull wing chokecherry bow from a super clear sapling I found a couple years ago. Very little wood needed to be removed and I think a Native American in my area (Northeast Wyoming) just wouldn’t have been able to pass up this stave! I can’t wait to start tillering!!! 😅 PS I happen to have a nice bull snake (road kill) skin! 🤔hmmmm?

Awesome looking bow John.

Hello John - how do you get up at 3am and actually function as a human?

Very interesting. Thanks friend of wood lovers everywhere

Need to be excited about the wood. Great stuff. Informative 😊

That hickory is good looking wood and should make some nice bows.

Thank you

Have you ever made a three piece hickory bow. I have two hickory limbs I'm working with. made bad bandsaw cut and gotta try to get a riser hooked up

That sinew backed bow looks perdy special. If it happens to be the one coming my way I'm all for you taking all the time you need to make it a masterpiece. I'm still holding off on stringing up that Gullwing. Can't wait to fling some arrows down range with it. Hope you have a good one John 🤙🏻

I made a few menards hickory bow. Good stuff. They have birch at my Menards I havent tried it yet but it looks good.

Good batch. Thank you brother of Hickory Bowyers

Fourteen more bows for the world sounds like a good haul to me.

I think mine are still in a snowbank somewhere in Michigan. They'll probably find the mail truck come spring. Haha

😂 love me some ol Teddy, rock & Roll baby

Hey John, awesome video. To further your point that I have not only heard that pounding sinew is a good thing before applying, I have heard it is almost essential. Also unrelated to your video topic, I'm ~1/3 of the way thru your book. I'd be further into it if I didn't reread your section of woods multiple times. You have one of the coolest writing voices I've come across. And how you blend professional "know-how" with the authenticity of handwriting is insane in the best way possible. Simply put, I love your book.

Sufferin' Succotash! Sounds like a good call to stay close to home today.

A friend gave me a Grayling Michigan.. Little Bear 20lb @ 24". Glass Powered. Wondered if you do any trading? Thanks for the information this morning. You have a great day. Duck sounds divine

Good energy

Your designs are killer!

I hope that this takes off for you John! Safe journey into the snow belt.

I honestly think the one bow production is a great business strategy. Have all the steps pre laid out, you can account for materials, cost of tool consumables etc. It also makes the marketing far easier as you only have to advertise for that model you are selling. That's not to say people won't order one off commissions from you but the bow production line will be far less stressful for you to operate. I think it is a great idea John. Lots of subtle nuances and variations you can make to your horse bow such as backing, string notches, decorative paint etc. Fantastic news also to hear the snowball has begun to gather momentum, great potential for this time next year!!

Nice John, Did I tell ya I hollow tillered my last Osage Plainsy? Merry Christmas 🤶🤶🎅🎅

Hello John, I think for novices and people who haven’t got time to harvest and cure etc, the bow blanks are a great idea - bowyery is massively time consuming, the idea of having an already roughed out balanced bow blank to work on becomes more and more attractive the older you get! Personally in 20 years of non-professional (distinctly non-professional 😂) bow making, I’ve only bought 3 unprepared staves, about ten years ago, 2 ash and 1 yew, and I’m still working on them ! Got to be cured by now 😅😅

Do you have any time for your wife?

John! Hornbows!? Now this is my neck of the woods. Great recommendation with Andi's Workshop. Some other's right of the top of my head are all on KZbin: 1. "How to build an Ottoman Bow - #1" by M.Bitious Projects (turn on closed captions for English instructions) 2. "Mongol Horn Bow - Caagan Chad/Tsagaan Khad Bow" by Nanashi Bow (turn on closed captions for English instructions) 3. "Bulgarian horn bow. Part 1" by Stiliyan Stefanov 4. "How to Construct the Asiatic Bow - Part 1/8 - DIY BOW MAKING" by Y.D. Also, the "must read" book that really does resemble your own is Adam Karpowicz' "Ottoman Turkish bows, manufacture and design". Additionally, Peter Dekkar has done a ton of work for larger eared bows, like Manchu designs. The general rule of thumb seems to be a bow should be split into 1/5 lengths. 2x ears, 2x bending limbs, 1x handle. And then additionally for weight it should be split into 6ths. 2/6th wood, 2/6th horn, 1/6th sinew, 1/6th hide glue. They are very cool bows.

Hey John, keep up the great work! Just wanted to drop a comment to appease the Algorithm gods but also let you know I just picked up a paperback and kindle copy of your book. I'm really looking forward to reading it. I'm not sure if you are familiar with Adam Karpowicz and his work on Ottoman/Turkish bows, but I get the impression you are one of the "Turtle Island" equivalent. Really like your work, particularly surrounding gull wing and/or high plains sinew backed bows.

This guy talks reality

Throw your mukluks on and get to hiking! I was going to have a pair built from my occasional trips into the great town of Virginia, MN. But they wouldn't have been of much use now in Oklahoma.

Awesome work brotha I've tried a few times to to email ya and for some reason I can't get it to work I am a tech tard 😅 is there any other method to get ahold of you? Would love to share some cool bows I've made ..... and would really love to to have one of your bows

Appreciate your time and videos. Keep sharing with us. Have a fun day. Joy in all you do. Good to see and hear you this morning.

You're a pipe! Can't believe you ride a unicycle, I was always afraid of damaging my bow if I darkened it too much, but I luv how dark you got yours, is some of that color from soot?