Players can make a maple shieldbow through the Fletching skill at level 55. First, a player must cut an unstrung maple shieldbow from maple logs, granting 77.7 Fletching experience. Then, the player must string the unstrung maple shieldbow with a bowstring, granting another 77.7 experience for a total of 155.4 exp. Like all shieldbows and unlike most other weapons, it incorporates a shield inseparably despite nothing resembling a shield being involved in its creation. Therefore, it provides armour and life point bonuses. The attack range of the maple shieldbow is 8 spaces.