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Meare Heath bow
medicinewheel:
Nicely made!
Thanks for the pictures!
Will B:
Very nice Bob!
Hawkdancer:
Dang! Now I got to get off my duff and start on my yew stave! The British report I read about the MH said that it was fairly fast and quiet, with little hand shock ar 43# and 28", right around my preferred weight, although I have a 26" draw! Nice job!
Hawkdancer
Del the cat:
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--- Quote from: bassman211 on December 19, 2024, 04:50:12 pm ---Well I felt a need to build, and experience shooting one, and if I were to build another one it would be from birch which is a less dense much lighter wood. When you hold this one in your hand it fells like a small oak tree. I have made some Sudbury bows that felt to heavy in the limbs, and to light in the handle, and redesigned them to suit me. This design has more wood through the limbs, so I don't think it will be a pleasant shooting experience, but so far it is a fun bow to build. I just built a series of Osage plains bows , so this is a drastic switch. This bow is said to be an enigma maybe for good reason. thanks for the replies. Bob.
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Sometimes you just have to give it a shot. Yew is a pretty dense wood too isn't it? (I've never had the opportunity to work with it) Makes you wonder. Maybe the original was made to club animals and enemies to death instead of shooting them.
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Yew is not dense. it is relatively light.
Del
willie:
--- Quote from: bassman211 on December 26, 2024, 08:24:56 pm --- Paul Comstock liked to build wide bows, and used birch to build some of them. It can be good bow wood if belly heat treated the right way,
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right way? do you heat treat birch any differently from other white woods?
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