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Iron wood ELB

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Mafort:
Does hophornbeam work for an English longbow? Just curious. Also what about smooth leaf elm? Ive seen a few made from Osage

Del the cat:
Hop hornbeam is fine for an ELB. I think the East coast NA bows were very much like an ELB if I remember rightly.
Anyhow I made an NA style bow that is virtually an ELB with a flat belly and self nocks 50# shoots nicely.
It was made from a stave I was given when I was over at the Classic :)
Del

upstatenybowyer:
I'm pretty sure Marc St. Louis made a heavy draw ELB from HHB. He did it as a build-along if I'm not mistaken.

Okay, I had to look. Here it is...

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,33287.0.html

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