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How long to make such a bow?

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WillS:
Y..y...you mean... you mean bow making ISN'T your life?!!

Lucasade:
 :'( :-\

cadet:
I wonder if the archers themselves knew much about bowyering, and whether there was a level of their own work went into them somewhere, in selection, fine tillering, stringing etc?

WillS:
The MR bows show signs of reshaping at the tips after the horn was fitted.  Supposedly this was to further bring the tips round and fill out the tiller shape, but there's no way of knowing if it was done by archers or bowyers. 

My personal opinion is that it was done by the bowyer - I believe the horn would have been fitted very early on, if not before any tillering was done at all, and the tiller sorted out afterwards. 

I think theres a danger of romanticism where the archers are concerned - people often talk about bow they would repair their own arrows, tiller their own bows and so on - but I think in reality aside from basic maintenance of equipment an archer would have very little to do with the construction of a bow or arrow.  Turn up, shoot, go home.

poplar600:
Where there bands of pro archers acting as mercenaries in Europe?

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