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questions about yew

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DC:
How about making a pyramid bow with a flat belly that you can bend and then just keep gluing on 1/8" laminations until you can't bend it, then back off one lam. If nothing else you could use up all your scrap yew ;D

Ringeck85:
I don't know if self yew crossbows ever got much above 300# range (but I am not a crossbow expert, so if anyone knows bettter feel free to chime in), but if you can get it heavier than that, by all means give it a go!  Sinew will help, too, at the very least for safety sake if that thing (the wood gods forbid) blows up!   (A)

stuckinthemud:
I'm not sure anyone knows what the medieval wood bows could do, thats what makes this so interesting.   ;)

bownarra:
Wood can take the same strain now as it could then. You only need to make a working model to find out. I personally wouldn't go much above say 200 - 250# with wood alone.
surely if you like making crossbows a composite would be in the works :) I'm contemplating making one myself, as heavy as I dare go, just for fun :) If properly made you won't have to worry about a composite breaking.

Markus:
Perhaps something here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gaGCrv4LyUQ&feature=youtu.be

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