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data on the Mary Rose bows/arrows
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: Yeomanbowman on November 22, 2008, 04:48:24 am ---Hello BT
Could you post some images of your bows please? I'd love to see them made to these shorter lengths, the most I've dared to do was 140lbs /75" ntn with a 32" draw out of English yew. The stave was no longer so it was not a matter of choice.
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I do have a few photos but lack the computer savvy to post them. If you would post them, I will send some as attachments to an email. I can send one of my unsuccessful atttempt to draw my replica yew MR bow thirty four years ago. More up to date pictures that will appear in 'Primitive Archery' magazine in my article on Viking archery are not now available due to contract restrictions.
Erik
Yeomanbowman:
--- Quote from: bow-toxo on November 22, 2008, 03:20:26 pm ---I do have a few photos but lack the computer savvy to post them. If you would post them, I will send some as attachments to an email. I can send one of my unsuccessful atttempt to draw my replica yew MR bow thirty four years ago. More up to date pictures that will appear in 'Primitive Archery' magazine in my article on Viking archery are not now available due to contract restrictions.
Erik
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No problem, PM sent.
stevesjem:
--- Quote from: bow-toxo on November 21, 2008, 07:44:31 pm ---[quote author=stevesjem link=topic=8078.msg139869#msg139869 date=122661579
5'11"is only 71", this is quite short and if it exists, then it is one of the shortest MR bows in the collection, being this short I would not want to draw a bow of this length to 30", let alone 36", I have just made a copy of a MR bow for a customer and he asked for a 35" draw length, so this bow was made 82" long, that is 11" longer than the length you have quoted. The original was one of the average length bows and that is 75" long.
Steve
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SirJohn Smythe tells us that war bows [such as the MR bows} were made longer than the normal longbows so that they "did but seldom break". I make up all my personal bows and arrows by the normal mediaeval measurements which specify an arrow the same length as the longer MR arrows but a shorter bow as was used for hunting and shooting at a mark.
Erik
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Hi Erik
Regardless of what Sir John Smythe says the fact of the matter is that the majority of the MR bows were 75-78" long and the majority of the arrows were 30", the longest of the arrows were 32". This I know as fact coz I have measured them.
What are "NORMAL MEDIEVAL MEASUREMENTS"? and where are they, Self Yew bows do not and cannot have a specific set of NORMAL measurements by their very nature, every stave is different and as such must be treated in its own way.
Steve
Yeomanbowman:
Images and text posted on behalf of Bowtoxo...
Here is my unsuccessful attempt to properly draw what may be the first MR bow replica that I made thirty four years ago, before the ship was raised. The smallbow is made to the specifications given in 'Livre de Chasse' .The small archer in the other picture is now 34 years old. In today's pictures I am not yet at full draw with round compasse yew bow and three matching arrows for my personal length as advised in mediaeval instructions and with Tudor shooting glove and bracer, horn sidenocks, loop in silk string. I apologize for the photo quality.
heavybow:
Very nice picture bowtoxo. 34 years ago :)
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