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Evidence OTHER than MR Bows of 120+ bows?
Heffalump:
--- Quote from: WillS on November 29, 2013, 09:43:57 am ---......."He once told me that ash will never make a longbow of any weight, and English yew will chrysal and fail the moment it hits 100#. Like I said before, he's not actually misinformed or deliberately obtuse but his problem stems from printing very early information into books and now he has to stand by what he said"......
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.....and lets not forget, his elves have probably just run another shed-load of Hickory/Lemonwood bananas through the bandsaw that he's planning to get banged out on the interweb before Xmas Eve........not to be a cynic or anything... (pauses to puff pipe, look over half-glasses and wink to camera to inject additional gravitas)......but thank goodness we're above making facetious comments like that eh? ;)
WillS:
Well personally, until I can make high performance longbows like he can, I'm not going to go out of my way to bad mouth him. I do think some of his theories are far fetched, and I do think he's mucked up in the past by saying certain things, but that doesn't make him a bad bowyer. Did you have a go with the 100# Bickerstaffe that Chris brought to the NLHF? It was gorgeous. Everybody on this forum uses a bandsaw to make bows if they have one, so there's nowt wrong with that. Are your bows all hand made with hatchet and draw knife?
brian:
Just to keep this thread going,i was speaking to a very eminent bowyer[,no names no pack drill ]yesterday and he was telling me that you can have timber DNA tested .It would be very interesting to find out if any tests have been carried out on the Mary Rose bows to find out excatly what region the yew came from
Heffalump:
That's more like it Will! ......are we on page 10 yet?
P.s. Absolutely no argument with the use of power tools matey, I'm not a Luddite. Incidentally, I understand that Mr.Pippersqueak very rarely makes a bow these days, which is just as well, as he's already cut bits of his fingers off using a bandsaw. He's far too busy pursuing another hobby with the profits these days and has a range of guest bowyers that make em for him until he upsets them and they leave......allegedly. No doubt some good bows do find their way out of his workshop, but my personal experience with his wares has certainly been disappointing.
Pip, pip (or rather not) ;D
WillS:
It's only three pages long for me... I changed the page settings yonks ago :-P
Will he be at the ILAA Windsor longbow shoot? I liked Dave's response to the whole shebang!
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