The day I spent building a longbow
I wanted to build a new bow, but I have the carpentry skills of a lump of wood. I sought out a proper longbow making workshop to get some professional tutelage.
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Buying your first bow: part 2
You’ve decided to take the plunge and get your first bow. Well done! But what do you need to buy? Modern recurves are modular, so there are choices to make around each part of the bow. Some of this is based on your physique and skill (how big should the bow be? How powerful?), but much of it will be around personal preference and what type of shooting you enjoy.
Buying your first bow: part 1
The 2 most likely questions for a budding archer to ask immediately after their first lesson are: “How much does a bow cost?” and “Where can I buy one?”. I generally recommend that any aspiring archer holds off buying a bow until they’ve been shooting regularly at a club for a while (6 months or more), but sooner or later we all hear the siren call of shiny new archery equipment.
Wording it well: a guide to writing for the web
There’s a lot of bad writing on the web. This always surprises me, because the reality is that writing online is not particularly difficult once you know what you’re doing. The problem is that, if you don’t know what you’re doing, bad writing can destroy any chance your site has of attracting repeat visitors.