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Homemade (violin etc) Bow

Materials: 1 stick, 1 roll of fishing line, 2 screws, rosin

Put a screw in each end of your stick. Tie a knot in the fishing line around one of the screws. Run the line back and forth between the two screws 100 times or so. Cut and tie off the string when you're happy with the width. At this point it will look like this:

I = screw
| = fishing line

I
| |
| |
| |
I

Because you wrapped the string around screws there will be a big gap in the middle of your bow. Tie some string around both ends near the screw to close the gap. See below.

 

The finished product:

 

Buy some rosin and apply it to the strings (rosin is what creates friction between the bow and whatever you're rubbing the bow against. It won't work without it). You can easily find this for quite cheap at nearly any music store. There, you're done.