Jim Hamm announced this morning on Primitive Archer that a new edition(#4) of the TBB series will be out next year. Along with some of the origional contributers like Paul Comstock, Jim Hamm, Tim Baker, Steve Allely and Jim Welch will be some familiar names to all of us...Mickey lotz, Marc St Louis, Steve Gardner and Jaroslav.
  I'm personally looking forward to this long awaited addition to a great set of books. Pat

YES, been looking for some more reading material.  Plus 3 books don't look right on the shelf, need a 4th to make it look balanced.

See Mickey, you are not a wood hack. There's proof!!

         

Cool stuff.  I love the first 3.  Any ideas on what the articles/chapters will be about in this new book??

The new edition will be out in the summer of 08.
Some topics will be:
wood properties, bow building 101,copper age bows, charactor bows, flight bows(Steve Gardner), design and performance revisited(Baker), short bows, war bows(Jaroslav), heat treating bow wood(Marc St Louis),target archery, arrows of the world(Mickey),Ishi's archery tackle, and more.   Pat

Looking forward to this one for sure...

I could do a chapter called "How to break five peices of wood to make one bow"    

Yea Kenny as you can see, they are so impressed with my bowyering ability they asked me to do a chapter on ARROWS    

Wood arrows, right?
 

Congrats Mickey      

Mickey, They have guys that do bows, but they don't have anyone that does arrows...like the Ferret!!!   I'm glad to see their horrizons spreading to the "new" archery main stream.   Looking forward to reading your section....heck, all of it!   Pat

I will be adding this one to my collection also. Jim.

so... where do i go to pre-order?...

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eagerly awaiting,,,,  :p

that is great, can't wait

I talked to Jim Hamm at the Great Lakes Longbow shoot (about a million years ago it seems) and he said "nope, there wont be any more volumes". I was bummed out because the first three were so good. Glad to hear he (they) changed their minds.

Sweet!!!

Mickey, I thought you were supposed to do the chapter on Errors?  

Sounds Great!!!! Way to go Mickey!! How soon will it bee Available to the Public??