Bow Making Workshop with Matt Weatherholtz  May 13-15, 2022

3 day workshop. $525 class fee includes meals and lodging. An additional $50 materials fee to be paid to your instructor for bow stave and dacron string material. Tools will be supplied. 
 
Matt's description of his class;
 
 "In this hands-on class the student will begin with a roughed out bow stave and finish with a shootable long bow. The class will teach how to shape, tiller and finish a long bow with basic woodworking tools. Students will also learn how to create a 2 ply reverse twist Flemish bow string with dacron material.

 We will discuss all matters of how bows are created primitively, resources and how to harvest them, and other historical aspects of archery as we build our bows together. "

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​About the instructor - Matt Weatherholtz has been studying the primitive arts most of his life, starting with shooting archery at the age of 11 and building his first bow at the age of 13. While you can catch him making the softest buckskin daily, or spy many of his tools or wigwams as replicas in museums throughout Virginia and Maryland, archery will always be his first primitive love; with osage, river cane, and St Louis flint being all his favorites.

Teaching these skills has become one of Matt's life passions because they instill respect for the Earth while teaching us to take only what we need. Matt currently enjoys homeschooling his boys in all things nature as he works from home in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.