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Ash backed Yew Warbow
cowboy:
Very nice one Marc! Beautiful bend - he aught to love it!!
Yeomanbowman:
I have contacted Hugh Soar and he said that it is entirely possible that ash-backed yew existed but did not know of any literary reference. However he did say backed bows were introduced around the late 1500's.
Hope this helps.
outcaste:
--- Quote from: Yeomanbowman on April 18, 2009, 07:19:45 pm ---I have contacted Hugh Soar and he said that it is entirely possible that ash-backed yew existed but did not know of any literary reference. However he did say backed bows were introduced around the late 1500's.
Hope this helps.
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Further to this point, page 47 of 'Secrets of the English War Bow' Hugh does discuss the practice of backing Yew bows when good quality Yew was in short supply, especially towards the end of the 16th century. He also points to 'Kelsal' of Manchester being the first to use it to good effect.
Also within the notes and references for this chapter it states that there is an Ash backed Yew bow dated 1650 held by The Royal Company of Archers Edinburgh.
Cheers,
Alistair
alanesq:
--- Quote from: Yewboy on April 16, 2009, 07:31:54 pm ---personally I like the nocks, I'm not sure about the statement that "warbows should have side nocks", considering there is only evidense of 1 actual side nock found. ???
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I would agree that warbows should have sidenocks as I have not seen any evidence of anything else being used
(well actually, I have been shown one painting which shows what looks like a modern nock but it was a while back and I cant get hold of a decent copy of the picture to examine it)
see www.alanesq.com/sidenock.htm for all the info I have (any extra info gratefully received)
Yeomanbowman:
Hello Alan,
This is the image. It's in 'The Great Warbow' in more detail. To me it looks well observed as the proportions are correct. The detailing is also accurate, things like the arrow being on the 'right' side of the bow and the 'loose'. The top nock looks very similar to your MR drawing. However, the image clearly show a loop rather than a noose/knot. I'm not arguing with your general premise that as far as we know English warbows were side-nocked but I cannot be 100% certain that this was always the case.
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