CLASSES

This is the perfect class for students who are interested in building a bow but short on time or on a budget. This class is a perfect weekend getaway for adults and children alike, who may not be ready to fully dive into traditional bow building.

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What's included:​

• Roughed out hickory or white oak bow

• All necessary tools and instruction to complete your bow

• healthy lunches and snacks provided

• Access to our 3d archery course once your bow is complete

• *Arrows available to purchase

• * Cabins available for $100/night

​Discover the satisfaction and adventure of building and shooting your very own wooden longbow! In this comprehensive beginner’s course, you’ll learn the ins and outs of bow building with traditional hand tools. Under the guidance of the Lead Bowyer, David Young, you will go through the entire process start to finish, then spend time shooting together (coaching available) on our mountain top 3D archery course.

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This workshop is designed for beginners and is friendly to those who have no experience working with hand tools. Building a bow is hard work! Chopping, hacking, rasping, scraping and sanding is physically demanding. And to complete this crash course come ready to spend a good 7-9 hours a day in the shop working on your bow. This is fun, rewarding work, so most people say time flies by, but everyone will sleep well at night!

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{Tag along guest (observer only) for $300/person}

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What’s included:

• Transit to and from Spokane International Airport (GEG)

• Bow stave and other materials

• Delicious Breakfast, lunch, & dinner provided (snacks and drinks too)

•  Arrive Thursday night – Depart Sunday night or Monday morning

•  3 night Lodging included- Stay in a cabin with heating and air-conditioning or a tepee with cots, your choice.

• Access to our 25 target, mile long life-size 3D archery course

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What you’ll learn and take away:

• Harvesting a stave from a living tree

• Lesson on curing wood

• Overview of suitable bow woods

• How to lay out a bow from stave

• Tools of the trade lesson

• Shop and woods safety course

• Proper hand tool use and demo

• How to rough out a stave to floor tillering

• Bow string making

• Final tillering, shooting in, and weatherproof finishing

• Take home 3 finished arrows

• Leaving with a finished, custom longbow capable of hunting small and large game

• *Option to purchase the tools you use so you can continue your journey as a new bowyer

This moderate course is for the folks who love building bows and are ready to take bow design and performance to the next level. Perfection takes time, so we’ll spend a full 5 days together.

 

Our archery paradise, the beautiful Big Rock Ranch, is again the host location for a higher performing longbow or recurve workshop. In this class we let you, the client, decide what wood, and what style of longbow or recurve you’d like to build. We will have time to not only ensure the performance of the bow you’re building but also have the time to add beautiful handle wraps, inlays, overlays, and decorative and protective backings such as snakeskins or rawhide to your bow.

 

You will surprise yourself with what your hands can make, and we intend to help you discover that for yourself. We will touch on topics discussed in the 3-day apprentice course for those who need a refresher. A beginner should consider taking the 3 day Apprentice class prior to this workshop.

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{Tag along guest (observer only) for $500/person}

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What’s included:

• Transit to and from Spokane International Airport (GEG)

• Bow stave and other materials

• Delicious Breakfast, lunch, & dinner provided (snacks and drinks too)

• 5-night Lodging included- Stay in a cabin with heating and air-conditioning or a tepee with cots, your choice.

• Access to our 25 target mile long life-size 3D archery course

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What you’ll learn and take away:

• Harvesting a stave from a living tree

• Lesson on curing wood

• Overview of suitable bow woods

• How to lay out a bow from stave

• Tools of the trade lesson

• Shop and woods safety course

• Proper hand tool use and demo

• How to rough out a stave to floor tillering

• Bow string making

• Final tillering, shooting in, and weatherproof finishing

• Take home 6 arrows

• Option to choose to build a 2-piece takedown

• Option to build a recurve

• Option to back you bow with decorative snakeskin or rawhide

• Archery lessons and tuning arrows to your bow

• Leaving with a finished, custom longbow capable of hunting small and large game

• *Option to purchase the tools you use so you can continue your journey as a new bowyer