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a wet spring.
briarbrow:
The tillering is not so much an issue is it?
I never thought they might be wet tillered.
liquid water again, is not the concern; it is water vapor which cannot be stopped by waxing or wool bow socks.
dry heat would do it. Was there really enough of that to go around on a 6 week tour?
I am saying they were in tune with the moisture content, and dealt with it. These bows were not lifelong companions you guys make them out to be were they? they were stored in chests.
Loki:
The Bows were disposable items,no fancy decorations like handles and polished horn nocks ;D.I dont know what life span the Bow would be expected to have,but they certainly werent lifelong companions ;D.
--- Quote ---they were stored in chests.
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is that Bad?
Kviljo:
For some, I bet they were! :-\
JD, now you're just being silly :P Of course they wouldn't hand out bows they weren't sure would hold.
But give anyone a full year worth of good yew staves and a piecework contract, and I bet he or she would be able to make a fully functioning warbow without having it on the tiller, in the end of the year. And that's probably what it was all about - making effective weapons as efficiently as possible.
Though, I don't think you can attribute much to the fact that most of MR-bows didn't have stringfollow. After 450 years, the wood would probably have straightened itself out to near its original shape.
Anyone got an idea of the relative air humidity onboard a wooden ship sailing along the same latitude as England?
briarbrow:
Nothing wrong with chests. Though I was implying they were not being always rubbed. and for potentially long periods of time.
However a good wooden box like that could make a relatively good buffer between the air and bow MC now that i think of it.
Wax is also used when drying difficult timbers. with a very thick coating it really slows things down. But if you are burnishing it off it can't be thick. (only mentioning)
Even if you don't use a moisture meter what is your guesstimate of the approximate MC of your bow in its best fighting form?
My guess, which it is of course (sorry) would be RH hovering around 100%. why not?
duffontap:
Briarbrow,
Are you a bowyer?
Kviljo,
I'm not sure what you thought was silly.
J. D. Duff
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