Welcome to CroBows
Hello to everyone that happened to chance upon this new website and have a very warm welcome!
This site is primarily intended to be a blog focused on making bows and everything regarding bows. Something that sets CroBows apart is that there are no bowyer blogs or websites in Croatia (that I have found at least) AND I myself have yet to make a bow at all!
Now you might be thinking „Well I’ve never made a bow either, along with most other people on Earth!“, but the difference is that I’m fully intending to and you can follow along with all the mistakes and fails and (hopefully) successes along the way.
I have very recently moved to a house in the contryside which finally allows me to have the space and resources to experiment with traditional and other bowmaking. I’ve been collecting knowledge, experiences and ideas for a while now, so it’s time to put them into action and see what can be done with the tools and materials that are available to me.
But first things first – I don’t have any sort of workshop yet!
There is currently only the house and a small shed on my property, so I will be transforming the shed (that held an amount of old firewood and some abandoned tools/materials) into a small workshop.
In the meantime, there were several large ash trees near the house that were felled due to being too close for comfort in case of a storm or similar events. I’ve left a few of the straighter pieces of their trunks aside to try and split into bow staves, while the rest has been cut into firewood (still waiting on chopping at this point – there are too many other tasks and chores that have priority at the moment).
So along with the shed cleanup, an update on splitting staves will be in order soon enough!
As always in life, we humans perpetually seem to be short on something. If it isn’t will or knowledge, it’s time, and if it isn’t time, it’s money, so hopefully this blog will some day allow me to improve my bowmaking skills by furthering my knowlege, motivating me to keep at it and even earning a smattering of tools and materials here and there.
At any rate, I hope that you will find at least some of the info that I plan on posting on my journey usefull and interesting, so please join along with me!