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About the person L.E. Stemmler I couldn´t find a lot.
Neither I know if he was married, nor if he had child-
ren. He lived close to New York in Queens Village,
Long Island. The only thing I know is, that he was a
passionate sailor and that he liked to set out on a
sailing cruise in the Atlantic Ocean.
Traces of the US bowyer, author and bow hunter
Luis Edward Stemmler we traced back secured to
the year 1912th. From the company founded by his
father, we found advertising turned back to ~1912.
The exact name oft he company was:
L.E. Stemmler Co.
Queens Village
Long Island, New York
At that time, the Stemmler Company produced finest
laminated longbow.
In principle, there were sold all the accessories for
archery, what we see today in a modern Webshop
to.
On next page there is a cover photo of an orginal
catalog from 1920.
And on the following pages you can browse the
catalog a little.
Luis Edward Stemmler - a forgotten legend
Who is Who? Who is Who? Who is Who?
Ad from may 1916
by Uwe P. Tesch
However, there are signs, that indicate that at least
the Stemmler Company was supporting and equip-
ped the other actor with their longbows.
The Stemmler Co. advertising aimed at least attenti-
on to this movie from the years around 1938 and
1940 to the 1938 film from.
Of course, Stemmler may be jumped only on the
"train with Robin Hood", but at that time were only
small or less professional bowyers with his skills and
his knowledge in the United States.
L. E. Stemmler already dealt in 1937 with the
reconstruction of Persian and Turkish bows.
This bows he built from lemonwood and the horn
from Asian water buffalo and yak.
This shows this report in “Popular Science Magazi-
ne” from July 1937.
It is interesting to see that almost a hundred years
later we find nearly the same forms of bows, back
and side quivers and arm protectors. Only the prices
have changed.
On the "Bowden Superior" page you can discover
the different types of longbows, which the Stemmler
Co. built. Rumors hold until today, that the Stemmler
longbow are included in the famous Hollywood films
Robin Hood 1922 with Douglas Fairbanks and 1938
with Errol Flynn.
Errol Flynn was also known as Archer, but the fa-
mous archery scenes did the later legend Howard
Hill. Hill, incidentally built his famous bows itself.
1922 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak0w8eWvMmc
1938 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ist_bZLP9u4
Howard Hill und Errol Flynn on the set. Douglas Fairbanks with longbow.
The next article
from 1945 shows
L.E. Stemmler
doing the entire
work, as we find in
the modern bow
making even
today.
We can say that L. E. Stemmler is truly one of the true
fathers of traditional bow making.
With the sale of its arches and the accessories, how-
ever, he was not satisfied. He also gave courses, how to
build bows and arrows, like this book from 1929 is im-
pressively proofing.
1937 L. E. Stemmler wrote the book:
„THE ESSENTIALS OF ARCHERY“
This book is therefore very interesting because it
gives us the opportunity to prove, how long, there-
fore, the term "Instinctive shooting" in archery exists.
In the contents of the book, you can see the chapter
“Shooting the bow” on page 29 the term "Instinctive
Shooting" used in the context of archery.
“Instinctive shooting” was so in 1937 a common
term and not as often falsely claimed in the 50th or
60th.
Instinctive Archery is no "invention" of legends like
Fred Bear or even much later by G. Fred Asbell
(book edition 1988).
L.E Stemmler was actually a very good archer
No, it was much earlier, mentioned in writing by
L. E. Stemmler (1937), as we proof here. These le-
gends have a great merit having made this aiming
method available to a broad mass of archers. But
they are not, as is often incorrectly assumed, the
inventors of this aiming system. Today, worldwide
much modern archery trainers are employed very
intensively with this topic. Why the term is so often
questioned is for me incomprehensible. In Europe,
some schools for archery are advertising with terms
such as traditional and intuitive archery.
This contributes to confusion!
Why are these terms less scrutinized? Where does
the term "traditional" archery come from? Here is my
answer:
Old school bowyer as L. E. Stemmler and others of
that time wanted to be different from the bowyer,
who built bows with modern materials such as fiber-
glass or even built whole bows of fiberglass after the
end of World War II. At the beginning of this develo-
pment, the old bowyers, who did not want to use this
material, called themselves traditional bowyer. Over
time this concept has been adapted and is now sy-
nonymous with the use of traditional materials in the
bow making, or the equipment. What we really try to
express is, that we use original material and no
technical sighting aids, as opposed to modern bows
made of a high-tech material in which of course
aiming devices are used up to the laser (hunting).
The difference is on one site in the material and on
the other site in the aiming system. Today some
companies produce handles on modern CAD ma-
chines. The limbs are connected to Carbon strips
and with high-performance fiberglass from the ski
production and modern adhesives. Personally, I find
it is difficult to talk about a traditional bow.
The terms traditional and instinctively have exactly
the same rights and they should both be used with
regard to their long history!
At the end of this article I want to show you some models incurred in the workshop of L. E. Stemmler.
Stemmler Logos
Hawk Recurve
longbow
One of the first wooden compound
Recurve
I have researched this article with
the focus on Instinctive archery
and it pushed me to very much
new unknown.
Unfortunately, I lost the track of
L. E. Stemmler about 1970th.
Please, should there be someone
who knows more about this pio-
neer, please feel free to contact
me.
Unfortunately, with all these me-
rits I don´t found Luis Edward
Stemmler in the famous "Archery
Hall of fame". I think there he
should be!
I salute a true legend. ◘
Instinctive Archery