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87lb@27" French longbow of the 14th century repro

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Weird dude with a bow:

--- Quote from: bownarra on August 05, 2022, 04:55:19 am ---That bow  :o.....might I suggest that the person who made that needs a bit more practise before selling bows...I'd want to be suited up like a French knight before pulling that....

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I agree even though I think this bow is not that bad considering how characterial the stave from wich it was made is, but yeah, that bow probably don't worth it's price. on the video you can see that the thickness taper is not very even.
 It really is difficult to find a high quality bow in france or belgium.  I'm french, there is no real tradition or "bow making culture" here in France, people look at a video on youtube on how to make a survival bow and then call themselves bowyers, especially folks who do not understand english, and thus have no acces to forum like this one, where they could get more infos and advices to progress. I know maybe 5 good bowyers in the whole country, I stoped counting the amount of time I saw people selling "bows" for 200$ at medieval fairs, that were basically a stick of garden yew wood, not even dried correctly, working only in the handle and left strung for weeks...

despite that, I don't think there were much diffrence between english longbows and french longbows in medieval time, we have examles in museum of bows that were basically english longbow design

keep going on with your videos man, I love them!

bowman123:
this is yew from the ardennes forest
it is not high quality swiss or italian alp yew. yew of the ardennes forest are knotty and twisty according to my wallonian bowyer.
there are still quality yew in the ardennes but he uses those to make 100lb+ warbows
that is also why he only tillered to 27 inches
when i drew this thing i was concerned about breaking it so i avoided full draw

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