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Thanks for the good words guys.Adam: About Pip, yes, i emailed him and told him i was coming to england for seven weeks and asked him to give me a week's work at his shop. Showed him a couple pics, my son's yew longbow and the yew recurve for my father in law. He said they were "interesting". That's all he said. Haha. Asked me about obtaining warbow-capable pieces of yew. He gave some very strong opinions about yew, which i would like to share.According to Pip Bickerstaffe,1. 15 to 20 rings per inch is all you want: too many means the wood had insufficient nutrients and will not hold up.2. wood density is the best measure of its usefulness as bow wood. 3. warbows, even of the best materials, become "shot out" within a month of hard use4. it's more common to find firewood than bow wood in a yew tree.He did not offer me a job at all. But maybe...my wife's gonna be working still when i get there, so i'm gonna have lots of play time. Pip said, "I have made over 15 000 bows, and i'm starting to understand what wood can do."gotchaBushbow: so I guess he has made a thousand bows a year for 15 years??? makes you wonder how much time he can devote to each one i like that bow you made, the yew stiff-handle bows i've made have all taken too much set.
Hey, Scott. Awesome bow. Perfect tiller. You're becoming the yew master, especially with those knotty pieces.What are you doing in England? I have a good friend who lives in York, and I was lucky enough to visit him for a couple weeks last summer. Are you going to go visit Pip Bickerstaffe? He's a reasonably decent chap, and I got to spend an afternoon in his shop.
