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backgardenbowyer:
Bob,

It shot about 210 yds with my normal arrows for roving marks and 235 with a flight arrow.  Not too bad for a bent stick.  Smooth and soft to shot because of the length and the string follow.

Stan

Cromm:
Nice work.

radius:
i love it dude!  So far i'm having zero luck tillering these longbows with no string follow.  I haven't tried heat treating them yet, because the yew is all knotted, and my intuition tells me better to have the string follow than just the string...

backgardenbowyer:
Absolutely right! A bit of string follow is not such a terrible thing, some bowyers even recomend it. Good luck with your yew.  I've just acquired some rather twisty yew from a couple of trees cut down where I work (I told them they had to give me the wood as part of their recycling programme as the demolition team would chip it or burn it!).  Have to wait a year before it is ready.  Having made this bow from ash I think it is a lot better wood than it is given credit for.  There is no way it is as good as yew, but it is certainly capable of making bows of moderately high weights.

Del the cat:

--- Quote from: backgardenbowyer on August 27, 2009, 06:39:00 pm ---I told them they had to give me the wood as part of their recycling programme as the demolition team would chip it or burn it

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;D

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