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European Yew LB (stronger with pin knots?)

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Pinaka longbows:

--- Quote from: simk on June 07, 2022, 05:43:59 pm ---Erik, you convinced me if you again make this 180# bow - with a stave full of these funny pins 🤗 maybe 200# possible 😁

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Ill send you some pics of a 155 lbs Mary rose style english warbow of the same type of yew!
180 lbs or more is critical for any type of wood (with decent dimensions)

Stixnstones:
Beautiful bow all around, great work

simk:
Good Yew is almost impossible to chrysal. In fact I only once had a yew chrysaling. I did blame the pins. but maybe it was just a strange monday-piece 🤔 despite this singular experience my confidence in yew is 100%...talking about the belly, not the back...

BowEd:

--- Quote from: Pinaka longbows on June 08, 2022, 08:18:30 am ---
--- Quote from: BowEd on June 07, 2022, 04:33:42 pm ---With raised over grown knots 1/16" to 1/8" high the size of corn kernals it is not an asset IMO compared to a clean back on a bow.Tension work is done on the outside surface.
That can be alleviated with the width and length of working limb and or lower poundage of the bow also to reduce any danger.
The very small dots I see are of no consequence to endangering this bow.
Cool looking bow.

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this is exactly why i think its an asset, since the belly is tougher and the back (tension) is not interupted and clean.
(never had any chrysalis around the knots like Simon says (see also my post a few weeks ago with extreme knots in the limbs)

Although i appreciate opinions, I was really asking for similar experiences for most people are more afraid of knots than actually needed.
have made several heavy warbows with these knots in it.

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Excuse me but I have very little experience with making bows from yew and could of spoken out of turn here and stand corrected.Good observation.Rather expensive stuff around here.
Made a couple out of yew.The 8 or 10 other woods I've made selfbows from will not act exactly that way.Although at the poundage your bow is at there I've made bows from other woods looking like that,that do survive from other woods.
That yew is some amazing stuff then.It seems to dent just looking at it though and for my purposes of a bow to hunt game and don't need 100+ poundage bows it's a non factor to me.

backtowood B2W:
I have to less experience with yew, but with the few I made I recognized harder and denser wood around pins and knots. Specially when the  color around them turn into beautiful purple. Spreaded out on the whole bow - maybe it makes a difference. Whats the length and mass of the bow? maybe this gives a clue when you compare it to your others.
Very nice bow - always excited to see a new bow from you. Good pics also :OK
B2W

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