Making A Bow Out Of A PALLET & TIE "WILL IT BOW" (EP.1)

[Music] as a bow maker I like to try out new materials and new techniques and new tools anything new that helped me grow my craft of bow making and that's what we're doing today I've got a tie and an oak pallet we're gonna see if we can make a bow out of it we're starting a new series to see if we can make bows out of weird things like ties and oak pallets I think we should call it will it bow [Music] [Applause] [Music] right now I'm finding out that the biggest challenge with making a bow out of this reclaimed pallet wood is avoiding the defects in the wood there's the nail holes to go around and also a bunch of knots to go around and finding an area that's thick enough to make a bow is difficult but on this one piece of pallet what I think I figured it out this is just one piece of wood but I've cut it down into two strips about an inch and a half wide maybe a little shorter but if I put these together its long enough for a bow so what I need to do next is figure out a way to splice these together and I'll glue those together and then I'll probably glue a handle on it and then we'll be able to glue the tie on it and then we'll be able to see if this random pieces of wood can turn into a bow kai is only 16 jizz long so our option is to only make a 60-inch bow where we can make a bow that's a little longer with static limb tips let's go for it let's go for a boa static limb tips and that'll allow me to make a longer bow but all the working limb will have the tie on it has a bow vacuum yeah let's do this [Music] oh man I just frayed myself [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hey it's time to take this hunk of wood and thin it down and get our boat backing on hey guys I gotta interrupt real quick to talk to to you specifically Dale thank you so much this looks awesome he made this out of Osage orange for me and it holds both strings or my tillering string it fits perfectly it's awesome I really do appreciate it and thanks for all your encouragement Heartland outdoor living is his youtube channel if you want to check him out him and his wife do some awesome things traditional archery secondly Randy your bow strings on your way I think since it was kind of over the Christmas time it delayed a little bit but it should arrive in the next two days so be looking out for that and we'll go back to the bow build okay I should be able to do six inches on either side and that should allow the tie hopefully be able to fit over the rest of the links the bow yeah it looks like it will so this 6 outer inches on either side is gonna be static and then we have a 10 inch handle that's gonna be a static so that's 22 inches of this bow that's not gonna be bending but that still leaves us plenty of limbs that is gonna be bending that this tie is gonna act as a bow backing to keep the back from cracking hopefully we already have some cracks in the back of the bow just from the wood drying and being weathered outside that's why a bow backing I figured would be necessary to do a bow build like this but I don't know if it's gonna work so we are going to find out [Music] alright so the bows looking good I guess there's crack someone under the static lamp hopefully that's not a big problem there's also a nail hole through the side of this lamp I'm going to treat it like I would a knot and leave it and put the backing over it and squirt some glue in there and hopefully that's not a weak point it's mid limp so yeah well we'll just have to see I'm kind of skeptical but I'm gonna try as far as I can to make this bow work it's getting late tonight but I really need to get this bow backing on before the nights up so we're gonna jump into the tie and figure out how we can put that on the back of this bow in a normal case I might go ahead and take down more of the belly of the limb so that I would start to Bend slowly but right now I'm gonna just put this backing on then I'll be able to treat it like a self bow from then on [Music] so I started this and I realized that I don't have anything to wrap the tie with and I need something breathable because glue only dries if it can be exposed to air so what I came up with is the inside of the tie whatever cotton piece of thing that is and then I cut some strips off the side of the tie and I'll use that to wrap this tie down as the bow backing and hopefully that will be enough to get me by for this particular application I'm not going to try to make a particularly strong bow I'm just gonna I'm trying to make a bow trying to test the limits of materials because you can't learn unless you break one every now and again so why not break it on zero consequence material wow this pallet board is soaking up so much glue it's drier than something really dry I normally do too much glue so we'll leave it at that and start laying this out oh yeah that glues helping it stay in place that's awesome [Music] well this is good I'm gonna get it tonight we'll check back on this in about 3 2 1 oh yes I'm back with some massive excitement because this is dry it's looking really good and we're getting to the point like this it's time I can make an entire bow out of this I don't have to let goo dry anymore so we're gonna get right into this thin down the sides thin down the handle start tailoring this and we're gonna have a bow before you know it let's go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm at 35 pounds at 22 inches the goal of an Drive about 35 pounds at 30 inches so we're just got to remove wood and make this pillar perfect okay so we've got a little situation I don't think this is oak at all I think this is actually pine or some kind of blight wood if you watch my poplar beau video that's what is just as soft as that if not even softer so what I didn't account for that is hinging so I was just attacking this wood hard and of course right where the little nail hole is half cut through the both started to hinge so I've been having to take off a ton in a ton of wood to recorrect where that hinge started to happen so that the bow want a break right there so the bow is starting to bend evenly but we're gonna end with a really really weak bow probably so that's partially my fault and I should have realized how soft this wood is as I started to work on it there's no way this is this is oak it's some kind of white softwood and it really just looks like pine to me in saying all of that it's not ruined we can still make a bow that shoots we can make it look cool so not all is lost I think we can still get a shooting bud of this but I'm gonna slow down even more now so that I do not create hinges it's something you got to be careful with with white wood is that it'll hinge really easily and the belly of the wood will actually start to stack up on each other and you'll see these little wrinkles in the belly of the wood and when you see those wrinkles you know you're you're in trouble so I stopped there remove the ton of wood on both sides and now we can continue tillering now that I got the hinge out the worst thing you can do if you have a hinge is pull extra far past that hinge and keep drawing it too heavy poundage that'll just ruin the bow it'll most likely just break and if doesn't break you're never gonna get that hinge out but I think I've got it pretty even now just a little bit of go this almost looked like an L so I'm happy about that let's continue on this bow made me nervous but I think we can still get something out of this hopefully this palate will bow [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so here it is a mogul bit style longbow made out of a pallet that's right behind me goes to show you can make a bull out of nearly everything so far I would say that the workability on a scale of one to ten is probably like at a two or a three softwoods are not very workable for bows the first reason is removing a little bit of wood makes a huge difference and so that's really easy to create hinges secondly because it's soft wood it seems to be less consistent so it may have a good tiller but in a week the tiller might be completely off and that's what happened with a poplar bow after a week of shooting it the tiller started to change a little bit and I have to take some more wood off to make that tiller good again so as far as workability I give it a three as far as durability it's a soft wood I give it a two probably but as the bow backing goes I would use a tie on any bow and I think that durability on the tie is going to be very good for you the problem with this particular boat is the compression not the tension on the back of of the back the bows good it's the belly of the bow that this wood is really bad under that compression so the tie I would give a seven for durability for the pallet since it's a light wood pallet I would give it a three I imagine an oak wood pallet would be much higher than that and as far as speed goes let's test that right now looks like it's averaging around 114 feet per second for a 25 pound bow it's actually not too bad as far as suitability goes it is smooth and the mold of that style I like these bows and enjoyment of shooting this bow I have to give it a 7 that's really fun this will be a great bow for beginners anybody visiting my shop who's never shot a bow hand them this one and man they can just go to town and get their form down with a 25 pound bow before you move up there's a place for it this gives us a total chaos a score of 18 out of 40 hey guys we turned a pallet and an old tie into bow and that's pretty cool you don't need anything special to make bows and it's a great starting point to grab what you've got and try to make a bow this is the first installment of this series will it bow if you have any suggestions or ideas of what you would like me to make a bow out of tell me any type of material any type of backing any type of wood metal I don't know anything you can think of that'll make a bow household objects or just anything you're curious about let me know and we'll see if we can make it bow so far were one for one not the best bow but it's a good bow and if you need to both streams comm is where we're selling them you guys are awesome stay positive work on a bow have some fun smile you know do all those good things we'll see you later