Cowiche Archery

Besides being beautiful, this new reflex/deflex bow is a real flat - fast shooter! 4 laminations: Bamboo Back, Red Elm amd Bamboo core, and a very tough Hickory belly, the bow is 67", and  55# @ 27 ".

The riser, (bulbous handle to control torque), and overlays are, a very rare, spalted Cocobolo, Bocote, and Amaranth.

$350.00

Well I've finally found the time to get this bow building website on the road! I'm going to take you step by step through building a Reflex Deflex Bamboo Longbow.

Over the years I've built just about every type of bow there is, from selfbows to fiberglass takedown recurves, and for my money a good Bamboo Reflex/Deflex Longbow is the way to go for a fast, hard-hitting, sweet-shooting, durable, forgiving, and fun hunting or 3D Bow.  I now only build Bamboo backed laminated bows, utilizing a homogenius design with elements from Eastern Plains Indian, European (Holemegard), Korean Horse Bow, and modern Howard Hill stlyle longbows.  It is a design that is asthetically pleasing, durable and with high performance.     I will be making and providing custom made laminated, bamboo backed Longbows, and I will also be offering kit bows as well as a tutorial to you guys that want to experience the ultimate in traditional archery; taking a big game animal with a Bow you built yourself.

( Sorry, I couldn't straighten my neck up for the photo, the vertebre at the top of my spine is fractured)

  Web Store Coming Soon!  (Check back - I hope to have this up and running in the next week or so.  The store will feature everything you need to buils primitive and traditional bows.  From staves to laminations, backings, glues, forms, various bow kits, arrow making materials, Bamboo shafts, tradepoints, (legal to hunt with), and just about anything you can think of to build your own bow.  I'm really excited about this!  Pricing will be very affordable.  So please bear with me while I get this on the web site.

• Bow Kits include: 1 Bamboo backing strip approximatly 72" in length, ground and ready for lamination
• 1 tapered lamination - ground to .002 per inch tolerance
• 1 parralell lamination - per your draw weight preference
• tip and handle overlays, (your choice of wood) Osage, Blk Cherry, Bubinga, Cocobolo, Zebra, Black Walnut, Bocote, Amaranth (Purple Heart) or Blood Wood
• $125.00 plus shipping and handling
• Custom made Bow : $300.00 + shipping and handling - for basic bow - Belly Lam, core lam, Bamboo backing, & tip overlays included
• I use only the best materials available and use the most asthetically pleasing woods I can find, and promise you a bow of heirloom quality that you will be proud to hunt with, target shoot with, and hang on your wall.  I stand behind every bow I build.
• Bow Building Tutorial: Free!!  See the Bow Building page

Good Luck building your dream bow!

I will also be making advertising space available to bowbuilding suppliers.  If you're interested email me at jdtward@Gmail.com

For those of you that have questions related to Bow construction, purchasing a bow, or bow kit, continue to email me at Bowyer@cowichearchery.com

I would also like to extend an invitation to all you Bowbuilders out there, to send photos of your creations and I will begin a show and tell page

  This is a photo of the style bow I will be teaching you to build. 

 The bow on top is in progress, 4.5" of reflex, and the bow on the bottom is the same design, built 3 years ago.  I have hunted with it since I built it, and it has been through quite a few 3D shoots. 

 It has been in all types of weather conditions and has had a lot of arrows shot through it.  As you can see it has retained it's reflex, (about 2.5")

Take some time to browse through the rest of my site, and then when you are ready, jump over to the Bow Building page and let's get started!

The bow on the left is an example of the bow I build.  It is a deflex/reflex bow 62" overall, and 60" knock to knock.

This particular bow has Red Elm for the core lamination and figured Black Cherry for the belly lamination.  This combination with the Bamboo backing is compression resistant and fast!

The riser is Black Walnut with a Purple Heart power lamination.

Tip overlays are Black Walnut and Purple Heart.

Other favorite laminations I like to use are Hickory and osage Orange.

You can choose from a large assortment of riser and over lay woods, including: Bubinga, Cocobolo, Ipe, Blood Wood, Bocote, Zebra Wood, and of course Osage and Black Cherry.

Leather Grip and arrow plate installed

Flemish Twist Bow String installed

If you have a special request for a type of wood not listed email me at bowyer@cowichearchery.com and if it's available I will use it.  (Woods like Ebony are available - market price $100.00 per board foot)

Basic Price:  $300.00 + shipping and handling