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How did bowyers harvest so much yew?
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: WillS on March 20, 2016, 07:47:17 pm ---That may be true, but yew is still an enigma! It can tolerate serious ring violations, ridiculous knots, bad tillers, splinters and cracks across the grain... Crazy stuff.
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For all we talk about the toughness of osage and hickory, NEITHER will let you get away with half the foolishness of yew!
WillS:
It's quite ironic in a way. Yew is the ultimate beginners wood. It can be treated extremely badly by complete novices and still give a great result, and yet for some reason it's considered hard (which isn't actually the case) to find so beginners use every other timber they can get hold of.
joachimM:
--- Quote from: WillS on March 21, 2016, 04:16:02 pm ---It's quite ironic in a way. Yew is the ultimate beginners wood. It can be treated extremely badly by complete novices and still give a great result, and yet for some reason it's considered hard (which isn't actually the case) to find so beginners use every other timber they can get hold of.
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Well said :P
That's what I always say to these osage and yew adepts. Wood for beginners >:D
No seriously: it's a LOT easier to find other bow wood. Simply because there are so many decent bow woods.
joachim
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