Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Tom Mareschall carries a 2.5m-long tree trunk across the workshop, lays it down and then raises an axe above his head ...

To many, the idea of going to the woods, cutting down a tree, crafting a simple longbow, and taking a deer with it is nuts—very cool, but nuts. But for some, the idea is captivating: as it was, and ...

When most of us think “stickbow” we picture the long, D-shaped arc of a longbow. We also think it’s older than the recurve, but that might be a Robin Hood, western-bias thing; Eurasian warriors and ...

MARNE -- In a small room in the back of a wooden building on his property, Larry Hanify can be found sitting at his computer working up a new design. The large vertical mill to his left is shaping a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To many, the idea of going to the woods, cutting down a tree, crafting a simple longbow, and taking a deer with it is nuts—very ...