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Tyler Hays made this Osage bow during one of our bow-making workshops and harvested a nice late season buck with it.

Would you prefer to make your own wood bow? If so, please consider our bow-making workshops. Click here for the bow-making class page.

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Echo Archery

Archery that calls from a distant past

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Notice: I am still holding off on taking custom bow orders. With Steve Savage leaving Surewood Shafts to work full-time with his son, Riley at Archery Past, Bob Marshall and I are quite busy working to handle the growth of Surewood Shafts.  In the meantime, I would encourage anyone interested in custom self bows to check out Swiftwood Bows or look into making your own with Clay Hayes or Weylin Olive, or myself (once I get back to hosting bow workshops). Or look up John Strunk, he is still making absolutely gorgeous selfbows (503-842-4944).  James Rempp (find him on facebook) is another productive bow maker with many stock selfbows to choose from.  


surewoodshafts.com

Thanks for understanding,

Carson

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Custom yew longbow, complete with Bear tooth nocks, and bear grease finish.

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Custom Osage flatbow. These bend through the handle pyramid limb bows store power with very little wood strain. Makes for a hard hitting bow that carries with ease through the woods.

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Yew wood longbow - horn tips, cane grip wrap. Custom made for Dave Lawson of Wilderness Custom Arrows. Check out Dave's beautiful traditional arrows here. 

48# @ 28", 66" long

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English longbow with horn nocks and Abalone strikeplate

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Custom Bamboo Backed Bow. Inlayed striekplate and cork arrow rest with horn handle build up.

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Primitive Osage longbow with pin nocks. Made in an Eastern woodland style bow.

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Custom Osage longbow. Abolone shell strikeplate and leather handlegrip with sheephorn tip overlays.

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Inlayed strikeplate of Mammoth Ivory

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Osage Orange

Osage orange with custom hand-rubbed finish of shellac, tung, and linseed oil, with beeswax layered between coats.

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This is a 65" (nock to nock) yew longbow. This bow has a draw weight of 53# at 28", and shoots beautifully. It is backed with salmon skin from the light underside of the fish.  

More photos of Lady are available for viewing here: Lady

Lady - SOLD

53# at 28" draw

66" overall length


Logbow full draw

A 65" Osage orange longbow drawing 57# at 28" of draw length.

Lady

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The tips are made of inlaid sheephorn. And were tapered to narrow deep cross-section to keep tip-weight down. The result is a fast, silent bow with absolutely no hand-shock.

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On this Osage orange bow, a rawhide lace (dyed black)  handle was used.  The osage wood was dyed with a custom stain to bring out the grain.

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This bow is compatible with fast flight string material, as are all echo archery bows.  

In the style of Gilman Keasey, this bow sports a very comfortable and surprisngly durable cork handle wrap. 

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A functional replica of a Yurok hunting bow.  It is a wide, thin piece of yew heartwood, with 4 layers of elk backstrap sinew. 

If you are interested in having historical replica bows created for display or use, I would enjoy discussing options and pricing with you.

-Carson

503-410-6571

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Kingfisher

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Kingfisher- Rawhide backed Osage static recurve with yew wood brush nocks and horn inlay.  60# at 28" the bow is 54" overall length.  Voted by Primitive Archer readers as the 2013 backed bow of the year! 


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I was fortunate enough to take this mule deer buck on opening day of archery season with one of my bows, Kingfisher.

The Weddle Bow


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Yew longbow with bison bone tip overlays.  This stave had an attractive dark streak on the edge of the  sapwood.

The front profile of this yew long bow (66" nock to nock), depicts wide fades, and a continual limb taper to the tips, reminiscent of the popular American longbow design of the 1930's.  Yew wood in this design makes for a very smooth and forgiving bow.

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This yew longbow was backed with salmon skin. The salmon skin provides an attractive and functional light backing.  

This bow is not available for sale. But it does offer examples of options available on custom ordered bows, including inlayed strike plates of abalone, laced leather grips, and salmon skin backing.

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On this yew longbow, I used abalone shell inlaid for the strike plate. An arrow rest was built up of cork and finished with a stitched buckskin handle wrap.  

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Above: Osage orange with sturgeon skin backing. Below: Pacific yew with salmon skin backing.

                        Stayton, Oregon                         503-410-6571            carsonbrown@echoarchery.com                  Echo Archery copyright 2012.