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Yew sapwood/Heartwood ratio

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WillS:
Just to add as well... if you're gonna be testing/experimenting with stuff like this, yew is the wood to do it with! It can take quite a large amount of mucking about with, and will still perform very well and stay together.

Looking back at my very first yew longbow I can see things that should "never be done" and yet it's still shooting nicely today. 

adb:
At 72", I think you could get 100# with yew, with perfect tiller. Yew can definitely take it. The first self longbow I made from yew had the hell violated outta the sapwood, but after thousands of arrows, it's still going strong.

WillS:
Yeah I agree.  With perfect tillering you can take good yew a long way.  Dave Pim made a beautiful 110# @ 32" bow from Italian yew which was only just over 73" and it took zero set.

woodenwonder:
I don't know what I'd do with a 100#'r, but sounds like fun. I got the sapwood down to about 5-6mm with no problem, that yew is sweet.
I want to post pictures because I may have other question. Is there a link or post in here that shows me how to post pictures?

Del the cat:
I think there are several posts about pics. Small ones (less than 200kbyte) can be added directly to the post, using the 'Attachments and other options' box which is bottom left of the box you type in when you are posting.
Bigger hi res pics need to be either linked to a picture hosting site like photo bucket or have the [IMG] data pasted into your post.
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