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nickf:
most of you guys have probably seen the medieval drawings of warbows, many of them show recurves in both limbs, or just in the top limb. I did some research about it, but coulnd't find some usable info. but what do you guys know about recurves on warbows? or when they appeared?
they might have become more common after the crusades?

thanks in advance,

Nick

youngbowyer:
Hi Nick,

there is a documentary about the English longbow on youtube and its from weapons that made Britain.
It states that some longbows have recurves and they show us a medieval picture of a medieval English archer drawing a recurved longbow.
Hugh D.H Soar mentions the subject as well in secrets of the English Warbow and states that English soldiers who fought along side their Burgundian allies might have brought back the designs of their recurved bows and some bowyers saw the effectiveness of them. However, he does mention there is no true evidence so it will stay a mystery.

Rod:
Small recurves (as well as irregularities and poor tiller) do appear often enough in illustrations and I had a Scots great uncle who hunted with a recurve tipped "Scottish" bow of laburnum.
I don't think it remarkable that slight recurves might sometimes appear, either from character wood or deliberately bent in.
After all they were not subject to BLBS lawn archery rules and we will find small recurves on some very old yew bows.
Nothing new or particularly out of the ordinary I think, even if not the norm.

Rod.

skerm:

--- Quote from: youngbowyer on March 31, 2009, 07:52:50 pm ---Hugh D.H Soar mentions the subject as well in secrets of the English Warbow and states that English soldiers who fought along side their Burgundian allies might have brought back the designs of their recurved bows and some bowyers saw the effectiveness of them.

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Has anyone ever done that to see if there actually is a benefit to it? I am not convinced that there is anything to gain by adding recurves.

Cheers,
Daniel

nickf:
youngbowyer, I've seen it in the vids, but that's just a 'normal' longbow. I've seen no recurved warbows yet, even though looking at the pictures I would say they were even more common than straight bows.

I don't think this is out of the ordinary, nor new, but I'm just wondering if these were generally used.

Nick

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