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ReturnOfThePrimitive

Let your inner primitive out!

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Announcement    "What we need is not a return TO the primitive, but rather a return OF the primitive." (H. Bey)
People are looking for ways to live more simply and closer to the Earth. I hope that these items in my shop will help you deepen this journey. If you want to find out more about my bow making experience, please read my bio.
Also, you can visit our website, where you can learn about all our class offerings (wilderness skills, bow making, cheese making) at http://www.twofeatherswildernessschool.com
The flint knapped items were hand knapped by my master flint knapper friend Greg.

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"What we need is not a return TO the primitive, but rather a return OF the primitive." (H. Bey)
People are looking for ways to live more simply and closer to the Earth. I hope that these items in my shop will help you deepen this journey. If you want to find out more about my bow making experience, please read my bio.
Also, you can visit our website, where you can learn about all our class offerings (wilderness skills, bow making, cheese making) at http://www.twofeatherswildernessschool.com
The flint knapped items were hand knapped by my master flint knapper friend Greg.

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  • Steve loves teaching kids how to make their own bows. He has taught his own two sons how to craft wooden long bows.
  • Steve hard at work tillering a bow in his shop. Tillering is a process of getting the bow limbs to bend evenly.
  • Steve and his family travel to primitive skills gatherings to teach bow making to people of all ages.
  • Steve loves to make bows and hunts with them to provide healthy meat for his family.
  • People are fascinated in the bow making process, and Steve loves to pass on this ancient skill to others.

The alchemy of turning a stick into a powerful bow

Steve grew up in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, where he observed primitive skills first hand. He remembers watching in amazement a friction fire speed contest at a Sing Sing festival...or watching a young boy take a bird in flight with a home made slingshot! He never lost his fascination with these skills and knowledge that allow people to live close to the earth. Steve feels passionate about simplifying life and connecting with the earth and each other in a meaningful way. He loves making and shooting traditional bows. Steve homesteads on five acres in the Upper Skagit with his wife and three children whom they homeschool. He has been practicing and teaching wilderness skills to children and adults in the wild and especially enjoyed teaching a monthly wilderness skills class to homeschooled children. There is nothing that makes him happier than seeing kids stalking through the woods with mud on their faces.

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