Merkel makes two types of bows, self bows, made from one piece of wood, and composite bows, made from two types of wood, such as hickory and bamboo glued together.

Water buffalo tusks, fish bladders, and animal sinew all went into the making of the ancient Egyptian composite bow. While the materials may seem primitive, this powerful weapon was not so ...

Experiments with the composite bow have shown that under controlled conditions, four different bow weights could launch projectiles weighing between 25 and 90 grammes over distances ranging from 109 ...

The bows were costly to produce—it might take a year for the glue-sinew composite to dry, by some reports—and they didn’t travel well: They couldn’t endure Western European humidity, for ...

He said, "A froghopper stores energy by bending a paired bow-shaped part of its internal skeleton called a 'pleural arch' which is a composite structure made of layers of hard cuticle and a ...

A game of naming archery bows from around the world is played.

Brad Merkel found his ideal hobby. Merkel is a carpenter who enjoys making traditional archery equipment in his spare time.