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beartail:
I have been making and shooting bows since 1999 and I have never even had the chance to hold a beautiful yew war bow much less shoot one! I haven't even seen or touched one!  im just saying, sit back and take it in how fortunate you guys are to be enjoying these beautiful, awesome, functional works of art! a yew English long bow to me is the highest step on the latter. don't get me wrong, I lovem all,but even a complicated compound bow made with a million different materials taking months to build cant compare to one of these beauty's! I inveigh you guys! so never take it for granted what you have.peace.

WillS:
Where are you from?  Yew isn't that rare or hard to find any more unless you're in a country that doesn't have it or allows the import of it - seems odd that you've never come across any.

JoJoDapyro:
Define hard to find? For the average builder it is a bit spendy, and still hard to find a good stave without the risk of getting taken by an online seller.

WillS:
For sure, but I would have thought that if you'd been making bows for 16 years and yew warbows had always interested you, you'd find a way to get hold of some.  In the UK it's free if you know where to look, and you guys in the States have it growing in a lot of places.  I remember a thread on here a while back from somebody in the US detailing how much yew is chopped down and burned as waste.

JoJoDapyro:
Sadly there is a lot of good wood that is cut down and wasted. One of the tree services I know chips all of their trees and dumps them at a goat farm.

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