Our Story

This is intended to be a digital backwoods for traditional archery.
It’s a place to share, to celebrate and to cultivate tradbow culture.

The name and the logo behind the idea of The Naked Bow
came to me in a flash of inspiration one early morning,
caught up in that surreal space between dreams and awakening.
It was like it already existed in the distant future,
and I only needed to lay down the stepping stones to reach it.
This vision came just hours prior to finding out that
a bowyer mentor friend of mine had passed away unexpectedly.
I took it as a sign to bring that vision to life someday;
I took it as one last gift from the bowyer who helped me learn to build longbows.

The name rises out of the pureness and simplicity of traditional archery
— bare bones, bare bows, and basic materials — The Naked Bow.

Elegance in the absence of excess.

Here we hope to explore the timeless path of traditional archery,
One which leads a person deeper into that sacred wilderness that lives within us all.