A triumph for master bowyer Dean Torges. He has created the impossible. A book so full of useful information that it could be a college textbook, but written with so much insight and “soul” that you could almost read it to your children as a bedtime story.
Everything you need to know from cutting your own wood to the final finish, everything is there. “As good as it gets.” If you only buy one bow building book, this is the one to have. Aptly subtitled “A Chronicle of Craft.”
Written by Dean Torges. Filled with helpful illustrations by Jan Adkins. 157 pages. Paperback.
For cutting the wood to the final finish
Packed with info in an easy-to-read format
157 pages, soft cover with many illustrations
Dean Torges is a craftsman with both words and wood. This book is an instruction manual that will lead you step by step to building a sophisticated hunting weapon from selecting a tree for a stave, to putting it under a durable finish. It is full of helpful work methods. The storytelling and pen and ink drawings help make this an important contribution to our written archery heritage.
