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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: How did bowyers harvest so much yew?
« Reply #45 on: March 21, 2016, 02:54:45 pm »
That may be true, but yew is still an enigma!  It can tolerate serious ring violations, ridiculous knots, bad tillers, splinters and cracks across the grain... Crazy stuff.

For all we talk about the toughness of osage and hickory, NEITHER will let you get away with half the foolishness of yew!
Guns have triggers. Bicycles have wheels. Trees and bows have wooden limbs.

Offline WillS

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Re: How did bowyers harvest so much yew?
« Reply #46 on: March 21, 2016, 04:16:02 pm »
It's quite ironic in a way.  Yew is the ultimate beginners wood.  It can be treated extremely badly by complete novices and still give a great result, and yet for some reason it's considered hard (which isn't actually the case) to find so beginners use every other timber they can get hold of. 

Offline joachimM

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Re: How did bowyers harvest so much yew?
« Reply #47 on: March 21, 2016, 04:29:59 pm »
It's quite ironic in a way.  Yew is the ultimate beginners wood.  It can be treated extremely badly by complete novices and still give a great result, and yet for some reason it's considered hard (which isn't actually the case) to find so beginners use every other timber they can get hold of.

Well said  :P
That's what I always say to these osage and yew adepts. Wood for beginners  >:D
No seriously: it's a LOT easier to find other bow wood. Simply because there are so many decent bow woods.

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