Donato Milesi... Bowyer p
Here's a short video produced by Donato Milesi, who was a bowmaking student of Jean-Marie Coche. Donato also was a graduate of Jean-Marie's archery school. Jean-Marie was John Schulz's best overall student as per what Schulz told me
The techniques employed by Donato are very similar to the way I build, and this video show the file work necessary to get a trapped deep core limb, which is adjusted along its length to achieve the proper tiller. He also employs a center lam of fiberglass. I wish I could discuss with him his reasons for doing so, but it's interesting that two Hill style bowyers, building in the fashion of Schulz's lessons half a world apart, would use this bow construction.
Anyway, enjoy the lessons from Europe, handed down via a Schulz disciple in the Hill style.
https://youtu.be/aAxvIMLYIQQ?si=78EvvYOH1FYTBsB5
Shoot Straight.
Very interesting- looks very time consuming in his construction- even looks like he files in the sight window/shelf - would liked to seen the whole process but guess would have been a feature film
ReplyDeletehis form appeared to be for a set back bow and his riser appeared to be a little blockier than yours and Schulz
Thanks for sharing
Outstanding, thank you Nate. Just curious does Donato still build bows?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like he is still building bows based on their website (all in Italian):
Deletehttps://laviadimezzo.org/old/scegli-e-ordina-il-tuo-longbow
I found a complimentary video to the one you posted. It has Donato Milesi talking about himself, Jean-Marie Coche, and John Schulz. Here is the original link to where I found it:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1529084440480408
I re-uploaded the video to YouTube and had it do auto-subtitles in Italian which you can set to play in English. I cleaned them up as best I could, but I don't speak Italian myself so it's not perfect:
https://youtu.be/qdBloKECKJA
Enjoy!
Thanks Peter- watched and enjoyed
DeleteAnother Jean Marie Coche's student who makes beautiful longbow with mountains yew or bamboo , in the north of France.
ReplyDeleteHis name , Frédéric Viguier.
Website Arcs Viguier
There are no serial bows only as you want , as your hand 👍
http://arcs.viguier.free.fr/
ReplyDeleteThanks for that info, It's great to share that with us
ReplyDeleteWith pleasure ! Thank you at you Nate for this blog👍
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