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question aboute warr bow...
akila:
Hi again...i wass gone from town a fiew days and i just got home and find your replays to me..thks a lot for all your help ....your opinion its verry important to me ,...this is why i asked you first iff its posibile to make such a bow from ash...i have to say that i wass pretty sure that its all most imposibil to make an 160# bow from ash stave..but i wanted to be sure...maybe this friend of mine will accept an 100# bow..if not...this is it...aniway thks.so much for your help....you know i just realise that wi also have Yew here in Romania, but i have to say that this wood is protected here by the law....and iff you get caught cutting a tree like that from the wood you go to jail 100%.. ;D....
Yeomanbowman:
--- Quote from: John R on February 07, 2008, 01:30:50 pm ---So true Badger. Until deer start wearing armor, a bow that heavy only serves itself. Just casue ya can do something doesn't mean ya should, eh?
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I don't know if read the section title but it's called 'English Warbow'. If that's too cryptic for you but it's about English Warbows. English warbows were used in the medieval and Tudor period for war, and they were also very heavy, just so you know. Can you shoot a heavy bow? I strongly suspect not otherwise you would not be making fatuous statements like the above.
akila:
Hello again...plz guys dont fight over this topic.....now im feeling a little guilty :-\...
stevesjem:
--- Quote from: yankeemongiat on February 10, 2008, 12:23:03 am ---
But when you try to get 140-160 pounds out of Hardwoods.....and they blow in your face because of Compression Fractures....dont say that you werent warned....I have seen what happens to Red Oak when you try to make a Bow over 75 pounds by ELB Standards....and it want pretty...Thats Just My Opinion ....I Could Be Wrong!!
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Could be wrong....you are wrong, i make loads of heavy draw weight bows from hardwoods and maybe only get 3% or so which blow up. Don't make sweeping statements like that, all it does is upset people.
Rod:
Bear in mind that the BLBS rule on cross sectional dimensions was intended to preserve the use of the post medieval target bow in lawn archery and should not be taken as a rigid definition of a war bow, particularly one in a secondary wood.
If a bowyer wanted to make an efficient heavy bow out of such a wood the smarter bowyer would make the necessary dimensional adjustments though he might well stop short of making an out and out flatbow.
Although a flat or semi flatbow was common enough in earlier times in NW Europe.
I certainly would not even consider drawing a heavy self bow in oak given that woods propensity for exploding in lethal splinters.
Yew was the preferred wood for good reasons, though there are relatively safe alternatives each depending for durability and efficiency upon appropriate adjustment of the assumed yew bow model dimensions.
Rod.
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