Compound bows can be really sophisticated in design using pulleys and some exotic materials, but you can make your own with a few nuts and bolts, PVC pipe, string and a tyre inner tube.

He started making more bows on his balcony and selling them to archers and hunters. “I make unique bows, listening to what kind of wood and how heavy a draw the person wants,” Clem says.

Today, bows have gone high-tech, like compounds, crossbows, and carbon-fiber arrow shafts affixed to razor-sharp broadheads. But we shouldn’t forget the traditional bows and arrows of our ancestors.