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English ash 140lb at 32" - update: short video of it being shot

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wizardgoat:
Sweet! Need that FD though

WillS:
It's coming!  I need to find somebody who can draw it properly and comfortably. 

WillS:

--- Quote from: benbow on January 27, 2016, 02:49:06 pm ---Wow had no idea this could be done. nicely done. i will have to give it a try only made one bow worthy of war bow status due to the lack of yew in my life ash on the other hand, cant move for ash.

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Plenty of other woods can be pushed this far, and then some!  Holly, plum, laburnum, hazel, elm, apple... I've seen all of those go to 140, 160lb etc.  I've also seen them out-perform Yew bows of the same weight ;)

benbow:
Apple, Plum two woods i have yet to try! Have been working down the sap wood on a near flawless 6 foot piece of laburnum with a 3inch reflex.  I say near flawless as there is a huge side branch knot in the handle, would you recon this could make a rare stave into poisonous firewood at upwards of 100#, not to mention the reflex?

WillS:
No idea, having never worked with it!  The closest I've been to a big laburnum bow was one that Joe Gibbs made at around 175lb I think.  Absolute monster at that weight, with a surprisingly deep section, quite unlike ash.

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