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Et_tu_brute:
I would disagree with the statement that Chris Boyton is not an expert on heavy weight longbows - he knows a vast amount on the subject. Chris is a terrific bowyer makes many types of bow amongst them heavy MR style longbows and I've seen a number of them - I believe Simon Stanley has at least one.

mikekeswick:
Yes recurves store more energy by keeping string angle low but a recurve has to be heavier than a straight tip to stay a recurve and on an 80 inch longbow extra mass at the tips would be a disadvantage. The MR bows are NOT recurved and I doubt very much wethewr any English longbow (warbow) ever was.

Hawkeye1974:
Okay, I am not an expert, hell I am barely a novice.  But if anyone watched the videos (I think its part 3) isn't the guy at the museum an expert on the Mary Rose and/or longbows? If so why would say they were curved like a recurve bow?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaZ6pQiYclo&feature=youtube_gdata_player

CraigMBeckett:
Hawkeye1974,

Because of so called iconographic evidence (pictures to most of us) that appear to, and indeed do, show English archers using bows with recurved tips and also because of the exposure of the English archers to Burgundian bows,  which did have recurved, tips, and, as has been suggested, with a recurve the performance is likely to be better, there are people who argue that the English Bow therefore must have been recureved as its unlikely that they would let such an "improvement" go to waste. The truth of the matter is there may have been recurved bows used in England but on the whole there is no evidence of recurves being widespread.

As for why would someone from the Mary Rose Trust agree, well you may have been watching a program in which two like minded individuals were taking part.

**EDIT** having looked at the program, at least in part I think you need to have another look at the part where you said the Mary Rose bloke agreed, The man in question is or was the keeper of the artifacts, the Collections Manger, he is/was probably not an expert in the bows. I did not see him agreeing nor disagreeing in fact he was not in the shot when the claim about recurved tips was made.

I have no idea if tests have been done with bows at warbow weights to see if heat bent recurves will stay in ir will pull out, perhaps someone who has will let us know the result?

Craig.

Del the cat:
AFAIK there were no bows with recurved tips found on the Mary Rose.
BTW That clip has about 12 parts and is a triumph of presentation over content...any idea which bit has the pertinent info in it?
Del

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