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Make a bow string - PEM BB traditional.straw.bowstring

BB traditional skills - straw badge
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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEM curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the Straw badge in Traditional Skills.

People have used bows and arrows for millennia.  Let's try to build an archery bow string!  

 
 

Here's one way to do it:


Minimum requirements:
  - Make a bow string for a particular bow
  - This bb can only use materials that existed 200 years ago

Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 min):
  - The material you're going to make your bow string from
  - Making the string
  - Close up of the loops/knots at the ends of the string
  - Short video of you successfully shooting an arrow with the bow and your bow string
        - Please consider wearing safety glasses
 
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