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One thing this thread had thrown up is that, despite being considered the classic material for a simple bow ,yew doesn't seem to be a first choice for amateur bow-makers on THL. I've never bee

You have to cut Yew right to make a proper bow, heartwood performs well under tension, and green wood works well under compression, so heart wood at the front of the bow, but its an art to do it right

Used to make a few bows of osage orange when i lived back east hickory to and i brought quite a few staves with me when i moved west but i haven't finished any for a while ,made a few recurved bows on

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I made a bow as a young man ah I mean young boy and it was rubbish so I threw it in the shed. About a year later I came across it and gave it a whirl and boy did it send an arrow a hell of a long way. It had had time to season and gave it a hell of a spring. I think it may have been ash

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