How to make bows and arrows? Something professional.

Bows and arrows are the best weapons that can be prepared temporarily, and they are also easy to prepare. It only takes a short time, and when you use them, you are the beneficiary.

Of course, it is best to use completely dry and elastic wood materials. If not, you should be able to bow well. If you plan to stay in your place for a few months, you should store some elastic wood for later use. Other elastic wood will have a shorter life, so you can make more bows and use another one when it loses its elasticity.

Taxus chinensis is an ideal material for making bows-all ancient English longbows are made of Chinese fir. There are five kinds of yew trees in the northern hemisphere, but not all of them are common. Others such as oak, willow, hickory, cedar, Cycas, elm, juniper, birch and hemlock are all ideal materials for making bows.

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Flexible materials with good elasticity and toughness should be selected to make the bow handle. Generally, it is about 120 cm long, but it can be selected according to individual circumstances.

◇ Choose the bow handle suitable for your own use ▼

Put your right hand on your waist, hold one end of the elastic wood, lift the left hole stick forward obliquely and straighten it, hold the elastic wood, make a mark, and use this elastic wood as the bow handle, which will be very suitable in length. This can be used as a standard for the size of the bow (it is necessary to use a long bow

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Processing of bow handle

The middle part of the bow handle is about 5 cm wide, and the two ends gradually narrow until 1.5 cm. Carve a groove (a) at a distance of about 1.25 cm from the rod end to fix the bowstring. Peel off the bark first, cut the bow handle into a certain shape and coat it with grease.

Installation of bowstring

It is ideal to use raw cowhide as bowstring. It can be cut into 3 mm wide ductile strips. Other kinds of ropes can also be used in an emergency. Old nettle skin is made of fine coarse fiber, which can be twisted into a strong bow rope. If the bow handle is very elastic, a relatively short bowstring may be needed. When the bowstring is fixed, the bow handle can only be slightly tightened-only when the bow is pulled open can the bow handle be further bent and tightened, providing considerable flexibility.

Tie the bowstring to the groove of the bow handle, and then make two and a half turns. If the material used in the bow handle is not completely dry, one side of the bowstring should be loosened when not in use, otherwise the bow handle will be easily deformed.

Preparation of arrows

Any straight wood can be used as the material of the arrow shaft, but birch is undoubtedly one of the best materials. The shaft is about 60 cm long and 6 cm wide. It should be absolutely straight (tying an elastic rope between two fixed points can be used as a ruler standard) and as smooth as possible. The end of the shaft should be engraved with grooves to support it on the bowstring. Check whether the groove at the end of each arrow shaft is wide enough to accommodate your bowstring.

Feather arrow

In order to improve accuracy, you can make an arrow. Feathers are selected materials, but you can also choose other materials-paper, light cloth, or even leaves cut into a certain shape.

A: From the top, tear the feather to the center of the feather tube.

B: There are 20 mm wide feather tubes at both ends of the feather, which are used to tie the feather to the shaft.

C: Divide the circumference of the shaft into three equal parts and tie three symmetrical feather tubes.

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The front end of the shaft can be sharpened and quenched directly. It will be better to fix the pole with extra sharp arrows. Tinplate is great: flint can also be sharpened to make real sharp arrows. The front end of the shaft is split from the central part, and the arrow is inserted and fastened. Tendon is a good binding material-use it when wet, and it will shrink when dry, so as to bind the arrow tightly.

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Draw a bow and arrow with the center of the bow parallel to the line of sight. Hold the bow in your left hand, the arrow in your right hand, pull the string back horizontally, and then release it-the arrow will fly out freely and shoot at the target. Practice more. Put a few more arrows in the bow sleeve and you can launch quickly.

◇ Prevent being injured by arrows.

Many shooters find that when the arrow flies off the bowstring, it often rubs the skin on the cheeks and hands. Cheeks can be wrapped in headscarves or other fabrics, and wrists should be wrapped in leather cases.

The traditional bow in China is a composite bow made of various materials. Its manufacturing process is complex, and the materials used are varied. The workmanship and materials should be suitable according to the season and climate.

(1) Bamboo: Bamboo used to make bows is mostly produced in Jiangxi Province, where bamboo is relatively strong, sturdy and durable. Usually, the quality of bamboo is evaluated by beating it to hear whether its sound is clear or not. It is best to use bamboo that has been cut and dried in the shade for one year. Bamboo with uneven thickness at the upper and lower ends or wormholes in the middle can't be used to make bows. Consider the loss when buying bamboo.

(2) Horn: A bow should use two horns, and buffalo horns with a length of more than 60 cm should be selected. At present, the purchase price in Beijing is about one in 30 yuan, and most of the horns come from Hubei. Because Yang Fuxi often entrusts people to buy horns, it is not easy to know when to cut them and whether they are all in pairs, so he can only choose pairs with roughly the same length.

(3) Beef tendon: Beef tendon is a very important elastic material for making bows, which is taken from the tendon ① on the back of cattle near the spine of cattle. Bought beef tendon, air-dried on the edge of the room, air-dried to 890%, wrapped in coarse wet cloth. The next job is to mash the beef tendon, which is convenient if you live in the countryside and can be ground on a roller. But there is no grinding in Beijing, so you can only hit it with a wooden hammer. Not too hard, but slowly. Crush it because it is too powerful. Crush it slowly to crush it. After smashing, you can see that the tendons have been split into strips. Then tear it bit by bit, to the required thickness, and finally become a trace. The process of tearing tendons is a slow job, which used to be done by women. People in the Archery often say, "A good man can't tear four tendons in one day." Tie the torn tendons and soak them in water in advance for later use. The longer the soaking time, the better. In the past, there were soaked tendons in front of the shops in the Archery. When it is used, it needs to be washed with clear water, and the effect is very good. The paved bow ② is also very smooth. If the tendon is not soaked for a long time, the master will say that the tendon is "dirty, hard and moist", and the arch surface made of it may have cracks, which they often call "water crack". (4) swim bladder: "swim bladder" is the name of animal glue used by the masters of Beijing Archery Academy to paste various materials, which is a very key material in the bow and arrow industry. A bow uses many swim bladders, and there is often a saying that "a bow has four swim bladders". Moreover, the quality of swim bladder is also one of the key factors that directly affect the quality of bow making. The swim bladder was first used in the bow and arrow industry. The swim bladder is a very good adhesive material, and its production method is mainly to boil it with fish bubbles of swim bladder (Chinese name: Pseudosciaena crocea). Wash the fish bubbles with clean water first, and then soak them in warm water to make them swell. After soaking for a while, simmer gently. Boil to a certain degree, mash, filter to remove residue and block. When in use, it can be diluted with boiling water. Although swim bladder is the preferred adhesive in bow and arrow manufacturing industry, it is also used in pigskin swim bladder now. According to Yang Fuxi, the swim bladder won't be used for almost a hundred years. Speaking of the pigskin swim bladder used now, it also has a history of invention. At a party in the Bow and Arrow Academy, a guy likes pork but doesn't like pigskin, so he vomited pigskin on the table. When people cleared the table the next day, they found that the pigskin was firmly stuck to the table. Thus, a man named Qi came up with the idea of cooking pig skin swim bladder with pig skin. After hard work, he succeeded. He distributed the pigskin swim bladder to various bow and arrow shops for free trial, and then paid them when they felt they had the goods. This method is also used by Master Yang. When making, first wash the pigskin with alkaline water, and then cook it with warm fire until it can be gently penetrated by chopsticks. Then mashed in an iron pot, boiled continuously, finally filtered to remove residue and hardness, dried in the shade and cut into strips, and the concentration can be adjusted according to needs when in use.

Here is the choice of raw materials. A suitable bamboo should have a diameter of at least 12cm and a length of about 8~ 10 m, and only short sections of 1.5 m can be used. A bamboo can be vertically split into at least 6 sections after being pinched off its head and tail. But what is "drying in the shade"? It is not allowed to completely lose water, so the elasticity will also be lost.

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