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Main Discussion Area => English Warbow => Topic started by: Mafort on October 22, 2018, 05:02:45 pm

Title: Iron wood ELB
Post by: Mafort on October 22, 2018, 05:02:45 pm

Does hophornbeam work for an English longbow? Just curious. Also what about smooth leaf elm? Ive seen a few made from Osage

Title: Re: Iron wood ELB
Post by: Del the cat on October 23, 2018, 01:20:21 am

Hop hornbeam is fine for an ELB. I think the East coast NA bows were very much like an ELB if I remember rightly.
Anyhow I made an NA style bow that is virtually an ELB with a flat belly and self nocks 50# shoots nicely.
It was made from a stave I was given when I was over at the Classic :)
Del

Title: Re: Iron wood ELB
Post by: upstatenybowyer on October 27, 2018, 06:39:39 pm

I'm pretty sure Marc St. Louis made a heavy draw ELB from HHB. He did it as a build-along if I'm not mistaken.

Okay, I had to look. Here it is...

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,33287.0.html