Making a Survival Bow STEP BY STEP with a Knife (3 of 4)

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I just been carving the handle you can see get some nice flex out of it so I'm getting very close put knocks into it I should be ready to shoot there's no movement down here now or what now there's two ways right Finn it will make them on narrow I'm gonna go for more narrow now started getting quite thin

definitely getting some motion in and out

ok so this reduced a little more I also took a little bit off the sides in a touch an hour should get some flux out of it you'll see yep I can feel it now absolutely there it is you can feel like those springiness it's a lot of a lot of built-up power right here because it has a slight reflex check the small one this one definitely has more flex in the smaller one so i'll have to take some from right here but I'm not going to do that now so now I want to get a string on it so I'm gonna start working on the knocks good enough

I like to use bank line I just do for pie now I'm just cutting the strands so they're by themselves just going the length of the bow it's working just getting myself a couple inches after so I'm going to us a little bit i'm gonna put a bowline in it this will be a four strand bowling okay I'll get the job done so I'm going to put that on my bottom limb I'm just twisting the string lightly until all the fibers working together now I'm going to step into my bow for the first time here's where it gets interesting I'm putting my string on for the first time around my knock just going to wrap it around and go underneath you know I'm just just wrapping it around basically so it's going to hold it center I have enough here to hold on to and a good firm grip now I'm gonna crank down on this try to get as tight as I can and bend my limbs at the same time so I'm drawn the bow the first time with a string on it and the let it relax okay I'll wrap around the knock a few times try to keep it in its place I'm going to just put a couple half hitches all right that's on that tight let's see what we got oh man would you look at that brace Heights already money check this bow all right here we go so this limb let's get brace height this Lynn Slim's done this limb is too stiff I need some more movement this thing's already shootable right now and the string is basically dead center on the bow that's a big deal that's a big deal it's going to be very accurate bow that's awesome so if I want to make this bow super nice I need to make some more action down here because right now it's not even it's on even this limb is really nice i'm going to leave it alone this limb is a little too strong so i'm going to work on this limit i nee bit we can start shooting this beau so let's like needs to bend more here stop take some troll off all right don't do you guys can see not till it

uh-huh sings powerful I can't even make a full draw string a social Center oh man I bet that's 70 pull Oh seems gonna shoe crazy good love to do that tomorrow