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Blacksmith's *Stunning* 76" Yew Warbow 140#@32"
ceolith:
...and again:
Del the cat:
Cheers, beautiful clean stave (drools on keyboard)
(I can send you some knots if you want to add some character ::) ;))
Del
Heffalump:
Hi Michael, that's an absolutely lovely looking bow! ;)
Tell me is this made from a dense Italian, or Swiss yew?
Bye the bye; I notice so much variation in the actual physical weight of the yew bows that I have bought (as opposed to the draw-weight)....some feel as light as pine and others feel like great hunks of mahogany. Its a personal thing for sure, but my preference, certainly in a warbow, is to have a good heavy bow, both in weight and draw weight......it just feels "right" to me!
John T.
p.s. I'll be in touch very soon on another bow if you keep posting up lovely pictures like this.....(absolutely dribbling here)! :P :P :P LoL
Del the cat:
Yo Heffalump,
If you look at the rule alongside the pics, you will see the rings at approximately 1mm spacing in the heart wood. This would be about 25 to the inch which isn't particularly dense.
There are sections of sapwood where they are much tighter... maybe 2 rings per mm.
I still think the High altitude Chinese is hard to beat. Cut from above 10' if possible >:D ;)
Del
ceolith:
@Heffalump
To have a quickly bow, you need drawweight with less physical weight. Less physical weight in dependent on drawweight ---> more effectiveness. ;)
There are 20rings in the sapwood, so you can see that the yew transform the sap- to corewood after 20 years. That's a hint to have a swisse/italian or austrian yew from the alps. But in this case, it's a really rare german yew from the german blackforest.
@Del
After building some yewbows (...nearly 500...) i can say, that the ringcount is not really a hint for superb yew-wood. You can have 25rpi with enormous power and +85rpi like a garden hose.
You have to know, on which ground the tree is grown... ;)
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