Bow
Accessories
by
Volkmar Hubschmann
Hardcover
225 x 285mm
216pp
Published by Schiffer Publishing, West Chester, Pennsylvania USA
R.R.P.$49.90
ISBN 978-0-7643-3035-3
Extract from back cover of book:
Every dedicated traditional archer longs for equipment that completely matches with his own concepts and needs. In this book he will find everything that he needs to create it.
- The entire personal equipment range, from finger guard to belt pouch
- Accessories, from tension spring to string holder
- Ten different types of quivers, the right model for every purpose
- The making of bowstrings-
- Targets, from simple to imaginative
- The most varied fittings and equipment
- And naturally everything about arrows, from basic technical knowledge through shafts and feathering, all the tools for arrow making, and unique arrows. For only the individually suited arrow brings the archer's optimal ability to the target.
Fourteen experienced archers have developed all of this from their own practice, tested it and present it for your use for the first time with detailed step-by-step directions.
Some 560 illustrations make every step clear.
This book is also a source full of inspiration, and provides the basis of working natural materials such as leather, wood, antler and bone.
With them, everyone, on his own, can create archery equipment (with the exception of the bow) and the corresponding accessories, from A as in arm guard to Z as in zoom (as the arrow flies to the target).
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Imperial and Metric
Contents
Foreword
Why make equipment yourself'?
Equipment
Tooled leather armguard
Stone-Age bone armguard
Shooting gloves and
tabs
Belt pouch
Arrow-seeking hook
Archers' knives
Tassels
Bow-stringing cord
Quivers
Thoughts about quivers
Tooled back quiver
Back quiver with built-in
knife sheath
St. Charles quiver
Oetzi quiver made of felt
Hip quiver
in Plains Indian style
Tooled hip quiver
Holster quiver
Other quiver
types
Arrow
Shafts
Preliminary information
The self-notch
Spine-testers
Arrow-repair splices
Tapering of shafts
Tapering in practice
Making arrow shafts
Arrow straightener
Shaft working
Painting arrows
with Lego
Wrapping arrows
Leather broadhead
Feathering
Accessories
Basics of feathering arrows
Materials and tools for feathering
Building your own feathering device
Cutting feathers
Feather burners
De luxe feathering
Flu-Flu arrows
Tracers
Bowstrings
Gallows for Flemish plaited strings
A Flemish plaited string
Endless
string
Central wrapping and nocking point
String silencer
String
holder
String wax
Targets
A simple target standard
Animal targets made of foam
Special targets
and moving targets
Other
Horn, antler and bone
Building your own workbench
A shooting chair
Authors and Artisans
Appendix
Literature to take you farther
English units of measurement