location: nr Telford, Shropshire
Learn how to make your own longbow using techniques that have changed little since the Middle Ages.
Make a traditional longbow like those favoured by English and Welsh bowmen, who used this simple, yet fearsome, weapon to such devastating effect.
This course covers the techniques required to shape an ash stave using hand tools, and then persuading the wood to bend to a near semi-circle. Also you will make a suitable bowstring and if all works well you will depart with your very own longbow.
The course tutor is David Cotterill a bowyer of 25 years experience.
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for 9.30am on Friday, and 9am on Saturday and Sunday |
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4.30pm each day |
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old, warm clothes, as much of the course will be spent outside under a covered awning.
Below is a suggested tools list. Please don't worry if you don't have all or any of the tools listed, as everything will be provided. However some people prefer to use their own tools.
- draw knife
- spoke shave (flat bed)
- side axe
- tape measure
- 12" rule
- pencil
- rat tail files
- cabinet scrapers
- hand saw
- sandpaper
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£225 (includes homemade vegetarian lunches and refreshments)
Refundable up to two weeks prior to course (minus £30
admin fee)
No refunds for cancellations within two weeks of course |
accommodation:
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accommodation is not included in the price of the course. on-site sleeping huts and eco-pods are available to rent from around £10.50 per night. more details of accommodation and how to book will be sent with course booking confirmation |
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the venue is an innovative centre for woodland management, coppicing, sustainable building, and other sustainable technologies
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