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Dan Spier

  • Arrows
  • Bows
  • Cartoons
  • Christmas Cards
  • Crossbows
  • Dan's Stories
  • Flintknapping
  • Flintlocks
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  • Molly's Works
  • Molly's Stories
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Bows

I have been building bows since 1998. Like most archers, I started out using compound bows, but I found traditional archery much more of a challenge. Since I am left-handed, I had difficulty finding bows that suited me, so I began to build bows. I started with fiberglass kits, and I made two or three very nice bows, but I felt that almost anything that I sandwiched between two pieces of fiberglass would shoot well. I wanted to experience the thrill of using actual trees and bamboo and animal sinew and horn to make bows the old fashioned way. I do use modern glues, strings and machines to make these bows, and many of them are perhaps too fancy for mere survival. Nonetheless, they are effective weapons that shoot fast. They are also quiet and easy to shoot. I hope you enjoy looking at them, and if you would like to know more about them, send me an email.

BUY DAN'S BOWS

Dan's bows can now be purchased through the site Primitive Pathways.

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Osage Orange Copperhead Bow

June 8, 2020

This is an osage orange bow backed with copperhead skins.

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In Bows Tags Osage, Orange, Copperhead, Bows
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Copperhead - Class of 2015

May 4, 2015
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Osage Bow with Painted Copperhead Skin Design

June 30, 2013
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Bronnie's Copperhead Recurve

October 9, 2011

Bronnie Leslie asked me if I could paint a copperhead skin on his old white fiberglass bow. This is what I came up with.

In Bows Tags Bows, Bronnie, Copperhead, Recurve
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