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adb:
The jibes aren't against me. That's my point. Sounds like justification for inappropriate behaviour to me. Maybe Mr. Heffalump and Mr. Bearded Bowyer could post some pics of some bows they've made, so we can all have a look? It's the armchair bowyers, who are quick with a smart-aleck comment (but have made nothing) that put a twist in my shorts. I'd be thrilled to see a "Hickory/lemonwood banana" from either one of you.

Bearded bowyer:
I think Del may have made some amazing banana's,  from laminates and meane selfbows, like elm, yew....
Not sure about Heffalump, but Im currently making a light hickory/ dark hickory/ Ipe longbow at the moment and a hickory/bamboo/ lemonwood with yew riser hybrid bow. and a pure lemon wood recurve, and experimenting with a 5 lam hickory/ ipe combination.
I will post pics of them when they are all done so you can all poke fun at me and I REALLY don't mind. If I can take it from my wife and children.....and the dog. Then anyone can.
Wait a minute...are you laughing at me??? how dare you!
 ;)

Bearded bowyer:
Back to Brians comment on DNA testing, I suspect It may be a very broad location where the timber came from.
If I've got the gist of things, dense tight growth rings are down to poor growing conditions? So what you really want is poor soil quality.
There must be areas in the uk where poor soil quality and nutrient supply would create good yew.
Are mountainous regions generally of poor soil quality? Do you get forests of yew at high altitude?

adb:

--- Quote from: Bearded bowyer on November 30, 2013, 01:09:29 pm ---I think Del may have made some amazing banana's,  from laminates and meane selfbows, like elm, yew....
Not sure about Heffalump, but Im currently making a light hickory/ dark hickory/ Ipe longbow at the moment and a hickory/bamboo/ lemonwood with yew riser hybrid bow. and a pure lemon wood recurve, and experimenting with a 5 lam hickory/ ipe combination.
I will post pics of them when they are all done so you can all poke fun at me and I REALLY don't mind. If I can take it from my wife and children.....and the dog. Then anyone can.
Wait a minute...are you laughing at me??? how dare you!
 ;)

--- End quote ---

I look forward to it.

PatM:
Scanty soil does produce fine rings apparently as much as high altitude does. I believe Chris Boyton had a piece of yew cut from a cliff on a  chalk type rocky area that was extremely fine of growth ring.
 Here in Canada there are cedar trees growing on the ridges of the Niagara Escarpment that actually don't even produce a ring some years because the soil is so poor where they are growing. Trees which were thought to be 500 years old are apparently much older.  The same trees growing at the bottom of the ridge are pretty normal of growth.
 It is certainly not just a northern or generally colder climate/shorter growing season that is solely responsible for finer rings.
 English Yew here still has pretty large rings when grown in typical fairly rich soil beside a building.

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