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adb:
Maybe that's it. They didn't fly worth a hoot outta my 90-110# warbows.
Heffalump:
Nice job Will! Look forward to seeing you shoot those at Donnington Castle next year matey :)
WillS:
Thanks John! I'm still struggling to really get on top of 125#ish to push these out. Anything lower seems useless with them. Hopefully when I get my 130# bow finished it will motivate me to crack on and move up in weight!
I'm fairly comfortable at 100-115 and on a really good day can comfortably shoot 120ish but I seem to have lost strength recently! Maybe it's the cold weather and lack of practice space?
meanewood:
--- Quote from: WillS on December 03, 2013, 07:47:45 am ---Larch makes excellent shafts.
If you're interested in keeping it traditional, the most common arrow shafts found on the MR were Aspen (or Poplar, pretty much identical) followed by Birch, and Alder. I love Birch shafts, they're chunky and heavy and very easy to work. I remember doing 12 EWBS Standard arrows from ash, and cutting the nocks to insert the horn strips took FOREVER. Blitzed through a set of Birch though.
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Nice arrows, love the black fletches.
Before I made a set of oak arrows, I made a couple of quarter pounders from oak and found cutting the horn insert slot very hard going. That's when it dawned on me that inserts are pointless in the harder woods. I made the set with no inserts and have had no problems ( max 130 lbs so far).
The fact that the ash set you did were so hard but the birch was easy, leads me to think medieval Fletcher's probably only used inserts on the softer woods and not on ash and oak?
WillS:
Quite possibly! It certainly would save a huge amount of time for the fletchers.
Then again, I'm not sure how historically accurate oak and ash are for war arrows. Ascham writes that ash is favourable for war shafts, but only a single sheaf containing one ash arrow was found on the Mary Rose, whereas softer woods like Poplar and Birch were the most common.
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