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Del the cat:
The main advantage of the white woods is they are easy to find, straight and knot free.
Del

WillS:
I don't think it's just that.  It's about as easy to find .85sg ash as it is to find straight, dense yew!  None of the English ash I've come across has anything like that density.  Try and make a 160# bow from English ash with a lower sg and you'll end up with a soggy banana.

adb:

--- Quote from: Del the cat on February 26, 2014, 04:07:38 am ---
--- Quote from: adb on February 26, 2014, 12:25:11 am ---I asked Pip Bickerstaffe and Steve Stratton the same thing, and their response was the same... 'cuz that's how they started.' Simple as that.

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And they know because....?
Del

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And they know what?

Del the cat:
I think this part of the discussion is about why Jaro turns his bow up the other way on the tiller. E.G Bow down string up, and pulls down on the bow.
WillS suggests that Pip and Steve say, it is because that was how it was done in the past (Or that's how I'm interpeting the "That's how they started").
I am querying how the heck they know... I don't know of anything in the medieval records, never mind the practice of bow making in Neolithic times.
Mind it's just getting silly as we are discussing heresay about guesswork on a post which is about a third parties work.
Del
PS.
I once heard a drunk man say I was his bestest friend, or my at least Brother said he did... well he said he was my brother, I was also drunk at the time >:D

WillS:

--- Quote from: Del the cat on February 26, 2014, 10:08:03 am ---WillS suggests that Pip and Steve say, it is because that was how it was done in the past (Or that's how I'm interpeting the "That's how they started").
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Nope.  Wasn't me.  It was Adam.  I also think Adam meant that it was how Pip and Steve started.  It's also how I got started because it makes far more sense to me to have the bow facing downward, I find it really hard to see a good tiller when the bow is the other way round.

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