How to make a REAL homemade bow

Step 4 The String Thing

In order to make a strong, reliable string for the bow we are drawing in two skills that are key to survival;Knot tying and the reverse wrap. The reverse wrap has two styles, easy and hard. We are going with the easy one. Simply measure out a few strands of your cordage and tie it to something on one end, then twist the other one in one direction untill if you give the rope a little slack it bunches up. Then walk up to the tied end and attach your other end to the same object and pull the thing tight. once it's tight you can just twist it the other way for a few seconds and untie the other end from the object. Finally tie a knot in the end of the cord that was not in your hands a second ago. Once you have this down make your string. It loses a little more than half it's length in the process so make sure you measure out around 2 and a half times the lenght of your unstrung bow. Lastly, cut notches in the sides of your bow about 1.5 inches from the end of the limbs. Now just tie one end on securely and tie either a bowline or slipknot in the other end and attach it to the bow. Congrats! You just built a regular long bow. Now you can build arrows for it or make it better to last longer.

Comments

[geeklord]

I used hemp for a string. I didn't do the reverse twist as u did but just four strings in a single twist. I looked up bow strings on wickepedia and it said u can use hemp.