I turned a whiskey barrel into horse bow!

[@Jacob-pl6gs]

I've been watching this channel while battling head and neck cancer . I have a love for archery since I was a kid . Great to have a young man bring bow making on a easy journey. I've tried and broke several bows. I'm inpatient and that is my fault . Keep up the great work our friend.

[@DanSantanaBows]

If ya ain’t breakin ya ain’t makin! If you’re on reddit post on r/bowyer if you ever need a tiller check, we’ll make sure you get there next time!

[@vapertainment5313]

Still hands down my favorite KZbin channel. The passion, the whit, the desire to teach and share and the customer service from his company. In a very political world its good to see some genuinely wholesome content and beautiful workmanship.

[@hiihay]

I went to the com section to write something like this and baam you already did haha

[@younknifecolector589]

Know dout his chanel is the best and his company is great he seems really young to own a company wich i think is asome to tern ur passion into a business

[@masterk5372]

Right

[@TheRedhawke]

Beautiful profile on this bow especially when drawn. Your channel remains one of my favorites. Thanks for all you do for those of us who love to shoot bows and attempt to build them.

[@brentonmackechnie702]

Yes! I've been hoping you'd do a barrel stave bow. I'd thought about sending you staves from the distillery where I'm the Head Distiller on several occasions.

[@sigmanarchery54]

Very cool my friend it turned out great. Let me know when you’re ready to start selling your bow’s. I’m really glad to see that the Lord is continually blessings you and your family, I will continue to pray for you and your business God Bless Kramer.

[@shawnn.ammons3442]

He will be selling bows sooner than later. Excited!

[@sigmanarchery54]

@@shawnn.ammons3442 I just pray there not to expensive. 👍🏼👍🏼

[@MTknives]

Very cool, I love the fact you are fearless in trying new things. You don't hide the mistakes and show how you overcome them. Keep up the excellent work.

[@lonniehobson7724]

😢😅😊

[@periclesmaillis406]

Hey Kramer! I have learned so much from you and have made many bows because of your videos. Thank you so much, and I love your videos they are so creative

[@1steelwheel1999]

I always enjoy watching your builds. I can't shoot these bows but love watching your craftmanship.

[@jesusllanas9318]

I saw oak barrel staves and was gonna buy a few to try to make a bow glad I waited for this video

[@tristinaugs]

I've been watching your channel for a few years and just started making my first bow today, super exited.

[@DerSascha]

What a beauty of a bow. Really great work, my dear Kramer!

[@mRibbons]

Dude! You freakin rock! I hope someday you give thumb release a try. It's a fun and dynamic way to shoot. I'm an Asiatic archery myself, but I'm having a blast honing my 3 finger draw technique. I imagine the same joy would be felt by Mediterranean shooters learning thumb release.

[@hillbilly4christ638]

So cool. I have two old whiskey barrels. So many possibilities.

[@herbertgearing1702]

I'm pretty psyched about this video. I have both bamboo and some oak charred whiskey barrel slats that have been laying in my house for a few years now. I built a horse bow from bamboo and hardwood a few years back and I have been thinking about another project using the whiskey barrel and bamboo together perhaps an old school crossbow or something for one of my sons.

[@brentbarrus9754]

Great project idea! Your time lapses are always so fun and well edited.

[@RezzoCreeSavage69]

i love your video. they've given me a lot of knowledge it helps a lot. i just wish i had i gotten to learn this off our elder or it being passed down to us. i like getting back in touch with my traditional side - Indigenous part of me.

[@Omar-vv5tr]

This maybe the most beautiful horsbow I ever seen in my life

[@Demphure]

I can tell you haven’t seen many then. It looks like a longbow with siyahs attached, and that handle will definitely impede khatra and holding arrows, both techniques found in asiatic archery

[@anotherdayinparadise8992]

My 6 year old boy said thats the coolest boy you have ever made lol

[@NateWebb0483]

I love the bow. Always been a fan of horse bows. But man... That splice would drive me crazy every time I saw it...

[@reapergrim76]

Heck yeah! Awesome stuff! 👌

[@tiresomekarma4054]

Can you try your hand at making an authentic Scythian bow? I have a lot of pictures of archeological findings of Scythian bows and related drawings of the layout of the bow I could share with you. If you'd like for me to share the pictures and info with you just respond with a way to contact you.

[@skylerslack12]

I would like to see that. It takes a lifetime of practice to make a legit composite bowikw that. Out of wood, sinew, horn, bone, etc.

[@BlackJacx1]

I was surprised that you didn't share the draw weight or chrono. It turned out great looking though. Excellent freshman effort at a horse-bow!

[@strawman3059]

It looked around 28# on the tiller

[@cecilsowers8242]

Very nice, I need a horse bow in my life!

[@jeremysyliboy5857]

I watched all ur videos n made my first bow watching ur will it vow series

[@UtiliTerran]

Kramer, you are a wizard.

[@emmanuelnavarro7268]

Making bows now, I’m finally getting decent with my bow, and in about a year I want to get a 64” 70lbs longbow left handed. Please make bows for the shop, I recently got a bow quiver and it’s amazing.

[@ASeekerOfLostSkills]

Wish I could like it twice missed you bro

[@85jacob85]

Oh dang! You did make a barrel into a bow already 😆

[@mickusable]

Amazing what you can do with old bits of wood Kramer 🤘🏹

[@thepict1010]

It's called a stave, a barrel stave. Watching with big interest !!

[@crubbster]

Would love to see more asiatic bow stuff like thumb release and thumb rings builds.. or maybe even a true horn sinue bow build.. as Always great content!!

[@WilliamPiere]

Yes! New content!!

[@GordaoSemFuturo]

I really like your channel and i've been a subscriber for a long time now and after watching you at the beginning i drifted away to other content, more specifically related to horse bows. Mongolian, Chinese etc. I'm really stoked to see a video where you craft a horse bow. (= Salute from Brazil! I really hope i'll be able to snag a bow for myself.

[@spiritsofthedistilledkind3633]

I’m a whiskey fan and found this build awesome. Would have been cool to have re-char the back side of the stave when finished tillering to add back that whiskey barrel look.

[@J.A.Smith2397]

Been a couple yrs since I seen ya n your videos have come along a good ways bub

[@erickhian]

Really nice video!!!!

[@randomcdude4430]

With the length it sort of brings to mind a Manchu bow. Put some string bridges at the bottom of the siyahs and you might be on to it. Cool thing to try thumb draw with, but get/make a thumb ring first. It is pretty different, but pretty fun. Check out Armin Hirmer's channel for good thumb draw archery. There are many traditional archers from all over Asia (Turkey to China) who's names escape me right now on KZbin that are also good resources for the various thumb release styles.

[@Jordan_Makes]

So cool! Thanks for being a great creator!

[@wasnt.here.3853]

Yes! Been hoping to see a horsebow on here for a long time! But then proceeds to shoot it Mediterranean :(

[@ryanevans3201]

Yesss finallly a video 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mollaram]

mice one man!. thanks for making this video!

[@younknifecolector589]

Kramer ammons ur vids on bow making anf bow string making are helpful i made my own Flemish twist bow string with rolls of b55 bow string from ur website thanks it was royale blue and black thanks

[@caseysmith544]

My Brother will be getting 3 of the Dracon B--55 bow Flemish twist strings from your site for Christmas for his 3 main bows. This is due to him not wanting to have to twist the strings anymore or as much as you have to do with endless loop strings.

[@ralfgrosser4443]

This sounds bizarr, and May make a whiskey drinker weep. It’s always fun to see what is possible. Reminds me, I once met an archer, who built his own three piece static. Recurve from a pair of cross country ski’s.

[@itllbealright]

Just emailed… cant wait

[@jackjohn4816]

I'd like to see u make board bow with floor tile as a backing and on the belly

[@c3diy]

you should check out spectraply materials for colorful alternated plywood handles, would be another fun bow build if you can partially use some of it

[@karenmurray3098]

that's sort of a hybrid native amercian / asian horse bow ?? really cool stuff mate, i love that hande on that bow

[@henrywilsonwinter]

Could I use wood glue to laminate two fence pickets together to make a bow?

[@samoxafonic]

Great build Kramer, love your videos. What glue did you use to attach the sias , and what did you wrap it with?

[@hawkinatorgamer9725]

Always great content, Ammons Archers almost 200K strong💪💪💪

[@lastresmariaschocolateriac176]

Hello, greetings from Ecuador.... Excellent job you do.... your channel motivates me to make a bow and love that sport.... I dream of making a bow like yours..... congratulations for your channel and greetings .....👍👍👍👍👍🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@nathanielthomas7830]

It's just a recurve with Siyahs. Horse bows had that huge deflex when unstrung. Almost looked like a crab when unstrung. Nice bow either way

[@lajoyalobos2009]

I was hoping to see a horsebow build like this. I'll probably have to back it with drywall tape though lol

[@backyard.craftsman]

Beautiful bow 🏹 when you use wood from whisky barrel, does your bow have whisky 🥃 aroma?

[@Questioniblafy]

Check out Stiliyan Stefanov for some videos on composite bow building processes. The different approach to tillering might be of particular interest. I believe in Arab Archery there is a third type of bow in between a self bow, and a composite "horse" bow. Its basically a self bow that is made like a self bow but then reinforced with horn and sinew. This is quite different than the more common process that composite "horse" bows are made. It would perhaps be an easier entry point into traditional composite bows that will leverage some of the skills you've already acquired. It would allow you to gain some experience with the materials of traditional composite bow construction but not require the totally different approach and expertise needed to successfully build one. It would also be just as traditional and historically accurate as other culture's composite bows.

[@ArcheryAlchemist]

i have challenge for you use only a swiss army knife to make a bow you can use the bigger stuff to test but you can only use the knife when cutting or shaping

[@megahamartolos6638]

Very good work that I enjoyed watching. I have a question. Have you considered adding a string bench to the siyah. Turkish, Mongol, Manchu and Korean bows have them.

[@tmokayamajapan4361]

Great video! Quick question - What did you use to wrap the ends of the bow?

[@cavelvlan25]

I have an idea on the makeshift bow theme!! Using a professional grade concurve skate deck as a short recurve. Obviously have to shape and play with the idea but I am thinking you could get alot of power out of a what 30 inch board?

[@robertfaucher3750]

Very interested in making my own Mongolian bow someday, thanks

[@jgiz6419]

Great looking bow, and great video. Wondering what your draw weight ended up at, maybe I missed it? I did a white oak longbow recently from air dried white oak that I had left over from a boat building project and I just did a 45 degree scarf joint to join the two staves at the handle. I did a thin lamination over the joint and no backing on the bow and it seems to be holding up fine. Seems to be a bit easier to execute than the finger joint a long as it holds up.

[@FPSWildlifeAngler]

will it bow episode idea: would ski's work as a bow ?

[@tihomirtsenchovski6860]

Good job

[@Jonsoh811]

Apparently, since I have no tree knowledge, I have lots of black locust wood. A few dried, semi split logs, but also a fresh fairly straight black locust tree that has to come down. Any advice on how to best dry the fresh tree, for how long and any other advice would be welcome. I want to use this wood to make my first own bow(s) and 2 quarterstaves, so any advice is welcome. Since this is free wood, it will be my first project. I know it’s not the easiest wood to begin with.

[@MrPeka13]

Wud be nice if showed this bows poundage and speed. Still, amazing video as always!! Keep up Your greate work :)

[@colb715]

Another great video I’m interested in making a good horse bow around 50lb

[@timothyvolkers5343]

Could you have added a piece of hardwood dowel to the bow limbs and the seeia during the glue up for added strength in the mating the two pieces.

[@TheCanadianFrenchie]

I had a wild thought… What about steaming the handle area and compressing it close to a handle shape? That would reduce the wood loss and increase the strength of the bow, wouldn’t it?

[@gerardbarraball1]

Hi,very nice bow.thanks for sharing your talent.may i ask what glue you use to glue the sias onto the bow.thanks

[@dgundeadforge17]

Could you try will it bow with oak flooring or maple?

[@RedmanOutdoors366]

Looks like a Killer Very Nice 🙂👍

[@Eric-ut5ld]

Could you have made the bow significantly shorter by making the limbs wider? I know the goal was to make a long one in this video. Also, I would love to know the FPS stats on this bow.

[@AndrijaLaslavic]

You could have left the jagged edge so that it works something like a silencer.

[@zechariahp8206]

Could you try making a bow out of Lignum Vitae? It's the densest wood in the world and I haven't seen anyone try to make a bow out of it.

[@lamontrobain8302]

Hi I'm from South Africa and your videos have inspired me to start my own bow build but I'm having a hard time finding the right species of wood to use do you have any ideas

[@nielsfieldherping7340]

Try indigenous kusvaalbos (Brachylaena discolor). It is the best wood I have found for selfbows in the Western Cape.

[@JLowe-uu8lr]

Wow cool bow !=8)

[@mrredeef]

It would look better with a slight curve to the siyas (not too late to add that either) and some day you gotta make a bow with recurve in the bending limbs or the handle. You might be surprised how much arrow speed/penetration you get from recurving the bow closer to the handle without even adding draw weight.

[@Kurtdog63]

What pound did it pull? How long etc.? Man, a lot of work to put that together.

[@kristapsl9]

Wow! Nice bow you made!! What is draw weight of that bow?

[@17yearoldwarbowarcher]

Good video but if you make another horse bow try the shorter limbs

[@Retouchm]

Nice bow! It really looks like a Finno-Ugric bow. They are usally made of pine and birch. Not the most common bow wood nowdays for shure, but i would love to see you build one of those. Because Pine and Birch is very common and cheap here in scandinavia. I'm very courious what draw weight they might produce.

[@vijaykorvekar1009]

Make more such videos

[@THEDRAGONBOOSTER8]

Very nice..

[@chucklucas8747]

Nice shop what is the draw weight on this bow

[@FlatlandMando]

Where do you get your bamboo slats for laminating?

[@rockinHurley777]

Why have the last few videos have comments turned off? Might want to fix that

[@bigDbigDbigD]

What type of glue did you use to attach the sheaas?

[@etiennenunemaker9841]

how important is it to stay within growth rings?

[@thepict1010]

Good bow my friend, really good bow !! Would it be worthwhile making it out of 1 stave ?? Native American style ??

[@kramerammonsarchery]

Yes, absolutely

[@caseysmith544]

If you do make a true bow hunt, Deer/Elk Antler for the tips, there is a type of Asian animal out there from northern China to Mongolia to southern part of Siberia that is almost like Caribou that horns could be made from with the Mongolian styles or the Chinese styles of these bows.

[@boghoss5798]

Dude not to sound like a total hater, but this is not a horsebow. Not even a little. Its modern European longbow with a bamboo back and Siayahs, which are WAY to big and have WAY too much mass. The profile is wrong, the handle is wrong, its just not a horsebow.

[@Demphure]

Couldn’t agree more. I appreciate archers trying to broaden their horizons, but I’m sick of techniques for both shooting and making longbows be applied to asiatic as if it’s the same thing. He built a longbow with some siyahs slapped on the ends. Khatra would be next to impossible with that handle, and I imagine it would get in the way of other asiatic techniques. A little bit of study goes a long way before making an entire bow

[@Texas_taildraggin]

Gonna need to see you shooting from horseback though. Lol

[@BlazingShackles]

Bro the truth is you dont need steam at all, just water.

[@RezzoCreeSavage69]

where can i buy of your bows and arrows.

[@conner1274]

What kind of glue is used to attach the sias

[@DironMc]

Sorry for this, but um... I kinda want to see u try the ThumDraw/Thumb release technique....u know...since...horse bow.😅😅😅😅

[@colb715]

What’s the wrapping material?

[@glennrich2566]

Whiskey barrels are made from white oak because it doesn't weep.

[@caseysmith544]

I have recently wondered in the if it could bow style, if one could make a bow from strictly bamboo like a Japanese or Southern Chinese type of Asiatic long recurve bow