Making a traditional Chinese Recurve Bow based on an ancient craft book "Kaogongji" | HORN BOW
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Making a traditional Chinese Recurve Bow based on an ancient craft book "Kaogongji" | HORN BOW
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This is a traditional Chinese compound bow, a kind of recurve bow.
Make this bow with buffalo horns, tendon, bamboo, wood and sheepskin.
40 pounds
Chapters
0:00 Processing Buffalo's Horns
2:33 Processing Buffalo's Tendon
8:09 Processing Bamboo Body
10:48 Making Bow's Handle
13:13 Making Limb Tip
16:35 Making Fish Maw Glue
19:04 Polishing Bow's Bodies
20:25 Gluing Bow's Bodies
22:02 Gluing Horns
27:32 Laying Tendon on Bow's Limb
29:45 Wraping Bow with Sheepskin
32:18 Weaving the Bowstring
32:59 Shaping & String the Bow
33:30 JUST DO IT
In an ancient Chinese book "Kaogongji"(Records on the examination of craftsmanship) published 2000 years ago, it records that making a good bow requires six materials, which takes over one year.
The six materials are: wood, horns, glue, tendons, string, and paint.
The processing of the six materials should be carried out according to the corresponding time.
The wood is processed in Winter
The horns are processed in the Spring
The tendons are processed in the Summer
The three are glued together in the Autumn.
The shape is fixed in the Winter, and the work of modifying the appearance should be carried out in the coldest time.
In HFC Bow&Arrow Series, I'd like to show you the complete process of making bows and arrows.
Enjoy it.
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