have you tried making a double bow using opposite sides of the bamboo to compensate for the lack of compression?

bro that was that English Flat Longbow from Bamboo ! i loved that D shape from the Longbow for so long

Duuude.. ! You guys are the real deal! :)

Looks great, Matt! Nice work, Carmen!

Super cool yet hilarious at the same time with the written dialogue! I bet some tourists would pay a premium for a stone age haircut. My 2yr old daughter watched some with me and when I asked 'do you want to cut your hair with stones like that' she said 'No, I want to go trick or treating' LOL

Looks good!

Thanks for making this video Matt! If the show was an actual survival situation rather than a game, I bet you'd still be thriving out there.

Awesome demo thanks Matt! So many key details, the method of making the kit, drying it out by the beach, etc. What kind of stone are those 2 tools?

Why bamboo so weak when drawing for me?

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Fascinating! Thank you. What a wonderful material you’re working with.

For folks that are willing to use more modern materials in combo, you can increase the strength, durability, and poundage of the bow by adhering a layer of fiberglass cloth to the front and back, either with Titebond III wood glue or G flex epoxy. Also, in Asia, they first soak the bamboo in borax solution to deal with insects and mold. And if you do equal parts borax and boric acid, you turn it into flame resistant material as well. But it would need to be soaked for awhile in that. To dry it out, on sunny days, put something very dark or preferably black on the ground and put the bamboo on top of it, but lifted up on either end by other materials so that there is some air space between the black material and most of the bamboo. The solar heat collected will help to dry it out faster.

Nice processing bamboo to be awsome bow for hunting...🏹🎯🏇

The bamboo you're using are good for making crossbow too.

The only thing this dude killed when on Alone is his two front teeth.

Would you have to cure the bamboo as long as red oak or any other hard wood?

I'm currently looking into good bamboo to make a self bow from. You discussed length and thickness with some detail, but what diameter ranges would be ideal for doing this? I'm not sure what the size of the center hole was in the video, so even with knowing the thickness I'm not quite sure how large around the bamboo should be.

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Why are you calling it wood when it’s bamboo

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What a great strong and lovely man. Thank you very much for sharing !

Great video ! Preparing a trip to Belize right now so coconut tree will be one challenge. Greetings from Belgium (Europe) ..and all good medicine ;)

How the bag close , zipper ?

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Thank you so much! I have been inspired by the book "braiding sweat grass" to try and become more in touch with the resources around me. Like you said knowledge is being lost. I am happy to report that you have successfully passed on this technique and I have now woven the first of many baskets. All my raw materials came from the windfall of recent Hurricane Fiona. It feels great to be able to be productive even when there is no electrical power. And it feels fantastic to connect to the plants around me. BTW. Your most incredible tip was about always pulling on the thicker side to keep the split in the middle. That cracked the code for me. Thank you!

Hey Matt, you were one of my instructors at the tracker school, and Flint knapping. I will always look at you and your skill level as epic! I appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us. There will always be haters, but you know the people who know you will always look highly at you, and value all the great knowledge which you share with the world. You're awesome brother!

Saludos desde la República Dominicana excelente vídeo

Could you go into detail on how to build that bow string for starter? What kind of wood is good to use and which kinds should be avoided. I’m interested in learning this skill

This is the best explanation and very clear to understand. Congratulation...

What a mature introspection. I could tell by the way you were hyper focused on what people would think towards the end that it was an inner struggle about yourself. I came to find out what you had to say about it because I am that way too and I feel that with the state of the planet we will increasingly need to have inner resilience through all the changes it will go through in the next decade. Being as supportive of ourselves as we are of others is the way to be of most service to the world. I agree, it's not only based on how we have been made to feel about ourselves but also can be an ego thing where we feel that self-abasement is how to humble ourselves. I don't want to do that anymore either. I was honored to be able to watch your experience. May we move forward with self-love and care. <3

yeah, no. you talked how your skills wouldve been enough to see your through to the end but that is not true in the slightest. your downfall was gonna always be not bringing a fire starter. you were gonna spend too much time and energy into trying to start a fire the old fashion way that you wouldnt be able to do anything else. the amount of food you would need to keep that going wouldve been what did you in had you not tapped out early.

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Thank you for teaching this. I will try to use an electric grinder instead of the machete to shape the bamboo.

Good 👍 salam kenal dari Indonesia 🙏🇮🇩👉🔔

Nicely done and a quick bow.hey Matt did you spend some time at roots school in Vermont ? Also looks like your a long time student of Tom brown tracker school..

Those wasps made you look like a fool. 🤡

I like your new bow too!

Very cool but bamboo is grass not wood

Is that a San Mei III Cold Steel SRK? Mine's kraton handle started to defogeicate, so I replaced it with a couple of slabs of dyamondwood. It looks better, and more important it handles better. hosting.photobucket.com/albums/n259/vigunfighter/P1060037.jpg

While not 'natural', a typical spoon can be flattened and filed into shape to make a very usable broadhead. [URL=photobucket.com/u/vigunfighter/p/bcfceae3-5104-4485-8322-4c7aa1bae7e3][IMG]hosting.photobucket.com/albums/n259/vigunfighter/P1010756.jpg?width=960&height=720&fit=bounds[/IMG][/URL]

While I haven't had any luck finding churt/flint/obsidian or other knap-able stone, I did find some 'Heinekinite' which makes reasonable points... hosting.photobucket.com/albums/n259/vigunfighter/P1050383.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

Nice. Shoots pretty fast. I'm on St Thomas. After taking a bow making class at Dirt Time 2010, I came home and looked for suitable wood. I didn't really care for bamboo. But I did find that Maho is excellent for the Whole Thing! It makes a great self bow. The bark makes good cordage for bow strings, and if you look for a good size branch that is growing horizontally, it will have sucker-like branches growing straight up, vertically that make good arrow shafts. The one thing I'm not finding is rocks suitable for knapping. I've seen people fire treat certain corals which will give you the concordial fracturing needed for knapping, but I haven't tried it. It would be great to find some obsidian At some point my wife and I will have to head on over to spend some time with you guys.

Teach the child what to look for and share the skills with the younger generation, they are our future.

It was actually good to see you tap out because your mind was taking a walk off the map. Your attitude towards people that you know nothing about was toxic and you had this big stupid woe is me attitude about being judged then when they showed up to get you, you got standoffish about being judged. You definitely have issues and it was more than time for you get off the camera

Great work there! But I don’t know in terms of draw weight. The arrow’s speed kinda look like the bow ain’t powerful enough (more like 25-30 pound). Or it could be because you are using relatively lighter arrows? Just my thoughts.

I feel you'll make a better shorter bow if you compounded the bow by using two pieces of bamboo without any joints and glue or attach them on a piece of hardwood. You can use fire to make the bamboo curve outward.

P.A. is tour machete a two sides blade our just one,mine one and its tricky not to waste the material...?

I going to start doing a bambo bow(Japanese style) after 10 years of studying and wathing vids,I have a peace of land with bambo growing on it...the fire cure its a must right? Gonna fallow tour channel for tips TY

Informational and cute. Thanks for posting. I had a hex-weave basket made at a Akha Hill Tribe in central SE Asia. It was strips of bamboo, 1" wide and 2 mm thick, very precise, tight weave - the size of a cooking pot. No see-thru spaces, and smooth to the touch. It was stolen, but I still remember it fondly. Have set up a sturdy jig outside, where strips for baskets can be fabricated. It's new, so haven't used it yet. Probably use lengths of strawberry guava, which grows aggressively here in Puna, Hawaii. Will also make bundled drum sticks, which I used to make, in Thailand, from 7 lengths of bamboo (each a bit smaller diameter than a chopstick).