Making a Yew Self Bow. In October last year, a good friend of mine gave me a really nice yew stave to make a bow out of.
Since then I have periodically picked it up, looked at it, wondered what kind of bow to make, and then put it down again. Having made a few long bows before, I wanted to try something a bit different. All of them could shoot an arrow, but they would kick quite badly or broke after a couple of hundred shots. So I decided, after reading the bowyers bible, that I wanted to make a flat bow (Confusingly Americans call it a long bow). The difference in design it that the limbs (the bendy bits of wood that give the bow its power), are much wider and shallower than the English style Longbow (which I had based my earlier bows on). I then took the bow to a friend of mine who cut out the marked up shape with a band-saw. Why rape jokes aren’t funny: the science. There’s been an awful lot of discussion surrounding rape jokes this week.
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It was a short stave 61 inches long after being recurved it is 56 inches N2N when strung. the fades are 1 3/4 inches wide and tapers down from there to 1 1/8 inches at the start of the recurve and from there tapers down to 3/8 inches at the tips. It has deer antler knocks Texas diamond back skin backed and wrapped around the recurved section. I wrapped the handle with brown tanned deer skin and made deer skin pads for the arrow rest as well. The arrow rest is as close to center shot as I could get it and still feel I had enough wood there for durability. this is the one I had the rattles mounted on the handle but when test firing be bow many times before finishing I bumped the rattles kinda hard on the target when pulling the arrows out and broke them in half.
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