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Phil Rees:
Congratulations Kviljo..... that's a bow you should be very proud of.

Kviljo:













After finishing it is 55# @ 28" ( ;D) and 70# @ 34". One thing is for sure, this piece of yew is quite relaxed, hehe.
On the picture I am aaaalmost drawing 34".

Yeomanbowman:
An excellent piece of work (as expected) Kviljo.  As Erik says the nocks do looks photofit good.  Did you have to chase the sap down or are your Scandinavian yew trees better behaved than ours in Britain?

Cheers,
Jeremy

Oh yer, don't forget to tell us how she shoots.  I often think it would be interesting to shoot an arrow that was standard so we could put performance into context to enable us to interpret the data better.  I think something like the EWBS Livery arrow would fit the bill as it a good replica war arrow. 

Kviljo:
Thank you :)

I removed about 5mm sapwood on this one, but there are trees here that have down to 4-6mm sapwood, although they are quite rare. It really varies a lot on the growing conditions.

It is 31mm thick at the grip by the way. It should perhaps have been a bit thicker, but still with it's massive 39mm width I would have imagined that it should have come out a bit heavier, to say the least. I was aming for just over 100 at 32.

As an experimental bow for telling us how the MR-originals behaved, it is quite interesting. I think it does show that they not neccesarily were all 190 pounds. The larger bows could have been made that big because the wood wasn't as dense as the wood in the smaller bows. - but I don't think it will do much with a 75 gram arrow. I will shoot it some day and let you know. I bet no more than 140-150 meters though.

adb:
An accurate MR replica in every way, except the draw weight. Well done. ;D

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