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Glad I could help! I can't remember if we have done any others on Clout arrows, will have to check, if not we could do one!?

Glad it helped! We have plenty of other videos, I hope they all come in handy and inspire you!

lol and the electric lights...not forgetting the fact that the bandsaw was used in the Victorian era for making bows, which is what we do.

thanks for the video idea, much appreciated

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hi, we use lots of other woods, they feature quite often in our bow making videos. Lemonwood, Purple heart, Osage, most of these are backed with bamboo, take a look at our other bow making videos and you will see.

thanks, I enjoyed making it

Are you saing they used tanged?

@@longbows I figured they did, I've seen arrowhead artifacts that were tanged or at least they looked so

most of the tanged heads found in the UK were Roman

@@longbows good to know thank you

Go for it!

In 40 years of experince I have never noticed it make any difference to ones that are not pined on.

Thank you too!

Glad you like them!

WOW!!! Thank you so much! That is very kind of you!

We use Osage, in our bows, it makes a great English Longbow

@@longbows Yes, you would have to follow the rules of Yew in making an English Longbow of Osage.

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Glad you enjoyed it

Yes, and some bows can be made of an Osage Orange tree in the English design and have almost the same FPS as a Pacific Yew/European Yew bow.

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glad I could help with some information, I hope you have better luck soon

My takeaway as well. "They made the rules so the amateurs couldn't make them". Me: amateur. rubbish at bow making. ditch the rules. My kids loved shooting their Hazel self bow, thanks for the inspiration! (still, it was not a good bow, but fun to make)

I've made many english longbows and a few ''warbows'' from factory boards since around me you aren't allowed to cut a single stick from the forest. You just have to stay away from pine or other soft woods that can't handle compression really well. And to be 100% sure, just order a bamboo backing for it. I've never had a bamboo backed longbow go boom, I even tillered one while I was drunk and the thing looked like a ramen noodle but still shot and never broke lol

Yes, and what people always think on American Style Longbows is they have to have a shelf always and , but some companies you can request without if you want like some brands making pre WW2 like some early Ben Person models. Then a Howard Hill is a specific handle design on an Amercian Style Longbow where is skinny to an almost triangle where most companies make like how Howard Hill or his nephew makes, and have so deep only Large/XL glove hand can fit becuse of size of Howard Hill himself with a straight/dished grip only where on some American Style Longbows a universal notched grip can be used as can have a rounded grip but rounded/English grip on a flat limb longbow is called some kind of primitive or if based on a tribes bow, tribes name. Now a Pope & Young grip is usually a wider reangle/square straight grip where is 90 degree angles on backside and is using as thin of a wrapping grip material as you can get like using very thin suede or thin deer/elk, with Pop & Young grip is usually very uncomfortable and bow can have a very skinny shelf or no shelf as long as using usually very uncomfortable grip. Some Pope & Young bows use a rounded grip but Pope & Young company called these American Flatbows or Native Indian Bows. Now this rounded grip is kind of like Indian brand calling their rounded grip longbows, Indian Longbows where bows were a native style using a round grip.

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"Pacific Yew isn't suitable for a longbow of any sort". Thats probably the most untrue statement I've read in a long time. Maybe it's better you stick with cottonwood, poplar or willow. Leave more Pac Yew for me.

Great. The "ELB" you made, did it bend through the handle?

@@longbows Yes it does! :-) Though I also didn't have a source for buffalo horn so I used deer antler for the nocks. Wish I had a way to share a pic with you.

as it bends through the handle you have made a Warbow not an English Longbow as we are describing and showing in the the video

@@longbows As far as I can tell, The British longbow Society makes no such distinction with regards to tiller shape. Only that the limb tips must not recurve.

Its not the tiller, its the fact it doesent have a handle section, as you can see in the video an English Longbow has a handle section similar to a `riser` section, the dips either side of the handle are called Buchanan dips (named afetr the person who made them) this is another thing that makes the difference between a sporting the English Longbow as used in the Victorian era (and the Olympic bow at the time) and a Warbow which has no handle section. Also being 80lbs its well over the weight for BLBS

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So nice of you, really appreciate you being here for such a long time.

The Howard Hill style bows, are made with bamboo laminations, and gladfiber backing. Also most have an arrowshelf. Totally differant design.

No problem! thanks for watching and commenting

I have seen odd bows where they are neither an English Longbow or a Flatbow/American Style Longbow Square Limb Longbows are what I am seeing where whole limb when unstrung are same on each side, I call said bow a European Medieval Longbow where you see bows in rest of Europe being made unlike in UK/Ireland.

have you tried other methods?

@@longbows I've tried clamping them, but that allows be to only make a few at a time. The wrapping allows me to make dozens and store them to dry. Plus I do recreation at a castle and this looks more medieval 😉.

glad you have found something that works for you

thanks for fixing it!

@@longbows You're welcome mate!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Great to hear! So pleased you like it. Thanks for watching the video, we appreciate every view and comment.

sounds like you have been having fun making shafts. the commercial manufacturers have some great machinery to get that smooth finish

@@longbows Yeah, I'm a tech so making jigs is second nature and to make arrows, the jigs are the important factor in keeping everything consistent. The only jig I bought was a fletching jig, because I wanted helical fletches. Come to think of it, I enjoyed making the jigs more than the arrows in some cases. I made my own shoulder quiver too. I shoot a Samick Sage with 40# limbs. One of the things with making ash arrows is that the tapers have to be ground and not cut. The pencil sharpener type taper tools just don't work on ash. It makes for a heavy arrow that will hit very hard. Now, I have to figure out a way of carrying a recurve bow on a mountain bike. I built a trailer for it, so that may be what I have to use. Archery is a hoot!

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Glad it made you laugh, have you watched the full version?

@@longbows Will do!

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