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warbow design.
WillS:
See what you've done?! You got me in trouble now :(
Del the cat:
You can both stay behind after school and write out 100 times "I must not tease the cat".
It's that or the naughty step... well maybe the comfy chair :o
Del
Badger:
In flight shooting we have an English longbow class. Regardless of weight they have to conform to the 5/8 rule as well as the rounded belly and d cross section. One year mark St Louis had built a 140# yew bow for Heavybows and they disqualified it saying the belly was too flat or not rounded enough. I would like to see a cut off point on when English longbows become war bows and no longer need to conform to the same rules. How do you guys feel about this? I would think about 75# would be a maximum for an English long bow and past that point use a war bow class with its own set of rules.
adb:
--- Quote from: Badger on November 18, 2013, 10:39:56 am --- In flight shooting we have an English longbow class. Regardless of weight they have to conform to the 5/8 rule as well as the rounded belly and d cross section. One year mark St Louis had built a 140# yew bow for Heavybows and they disqualified it saying the belly was too flat or not rounded enough. I would like to see a cut off point on when English longbows become war bows and no longer need to conform to the same rules. How do you guys feel about this? I would think about 75# would be a maximum for an English long bow and past that point use a war bow class with its own set of rules.
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That sounds like a great idea. This already kinda exists... with the EWBS and CWBS, but is not part of the flight shooting community.
toomanyknots:
--- Quote from: Del the cat on November 18, 2013, 05:07:05 am --- few if any bows from Mary Rose have a 'high arched D section' of a Victorian longbow, most are nearer square or round. Even for those described as D section, it's a very squreish D, and there is little difference between them and the 'slab sided'.
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I've had to fix twist in a good amount of bows lately from screwy glue ups probably, and the cross sections on those ended up being a high d-section. But it would of been quite squarish/flatish if I hadn't had to remove a bunch of wood from one side of the bow to get it to stop twisting.
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