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Offline beetlebailey1977

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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2011, 11:54:29 pm »
Very nice I like it a lot.  Really nice tips.  Very pretty bow.
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Offline MWirwicki

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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2011, 01:12:19 am »
Real pretty bow, Del.   There's something beautiful about that yew wood.  Sure makes a good looking bow.  Not to mention the bowyer...
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2011, 05:00:48 am »
@ Blackhawk.
The arrows are 5/16 cedar shafts, I havn't got a grain scale to weigh 'em.
A while back I went to the Post Office to mail a package, so I took 6 arrows to weigh on their scale ;D.
I can't remember what it was tho' ! I think it's somewhere on my blog but... who knows, that thing is getting a bit big now!
Sometime if I get a bit of spare cash I'll get one of those digital grain scales off the internet, they are pretty cheap, but then, so am I ;D
Del
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2011, 07:30:17 am »
Beautiful bow.  I would have gone all out to take out that twist.  Guess I need to rethink that now.

George
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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2011, 10:37:23 am »
Hey,if you can afford a chrony then you should be able to afford a grain scale..lol :laugh:

BUT I am a cheap dutch conservative bastard my self and can relate. I think a lot of people here can relate to being cheap cus we all make our own gear ;)  screw the mainstream archery marketing masses saying we need this and that. A Stick n string with a sharp point stick is all I need..lol :laugh:....seems im going off on a Del like type rant so ill stop there ;D

Again, sweet bow ;)
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Offline Dazv

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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2011, 10:45:50 am »
is the back one ring??? is it ok to do that with yew sapwood???
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2011, 10:56:32 am »
Quote from: Dazv on October 01, 2011, 10:45:50 am
is the back one ring??? is it ok to do that with yew sapwood???
No it's not a continuous ring, and it's fine.
The back has been decrowned, but generally follows one ring down the centre.
Yew isn't as fussy as Osage and as long as the violations run along the bow, or at a shallow angle to the length of the bow it isn't a problem. I have them running across at an oblique angle or a V at some points.
I could have slavishly followed it down to one ring but then I'd have had thin areas of sapwood.
What I've done is fine, I've done similar on Yew longbows of a reasonable draw weight. See this thread, my post on page 2, there's a pic.
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,28088.15.html
Following a ring on Yew is the ideal, one has to be realistic, and sometimes you have to compromise to keep a decent balance of heartwood and sapwood.
Another reason for doing it like that is just to raise such questions as yours, I like the look of it too.
Have a look at my blog for more detail (link in one of my earlier posts on this thread)
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Offline coaster500

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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #22 on: October 01, 2011, 12:10:58 pm »
Great bow!!! Never would guess it had any twist strung up. Your tiller is amazing.......  Love it a la natural :)
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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #23 on: October 01, 2011, 12:17:36 pm »
Very beautiful yew Bow, Mr. Cat. Like George, I'm also drawn to making staves straight with heat. I guess I need to think more out of the box to be able to achieve a beautiful, well tillered bow like this one you built. The yew is incredably beautiful to boot!  8)
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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2011, 02:58:57 pm »
Quote from: Pat B on October 01, 2011, 12:17:36 pm
Very beautiful yew Bow, Mr. Cat. Like George, I'm also drawn to making staves straight with heat. I guess I need to think more out of the box to be able to achieve a beautiful, well tillered bow like this one you built. The yew is incredably beautiful to boot!  8)
Cheers, It's a particularly fine grained dark heartwood on that stave (cut Feb 2009 at a secret location deep into a Wood in Hampshire England... I could tell you more, but I'd have to kill you ;) ).
It's yielded 2 nice longbows as well as this bow, as they say up North you don't get o'wt for n'owt, so the price I paid for the nice dark wood was twist and bend.
It took a lot of work to get the first longbow straight and true and the second had a knot which was much more extensive that was obvious so I had to patch the back in the end.
This last bit wasn't long enough for a longbow so I thought I'd treat myself to a nice primitive.
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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #25 on: October 02, 2011, 06:26:23 pm »
awesome bow Del,  and very good speed....

Dave
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #26 on: October 02, 2011, 09:03:20 pm »
Awesome bow! Jawge
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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #27 on: October 02, 2011, 10:05:07 pm »
What a beauty!  You've just pushed a recovering addict off the wagon.  :laugh:
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Offline Lee Slikkers

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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #28 on: October 02, 2011, 11:40:22 pm »
Excellent stuff Del!  I have some Yew that I am chomping at the bit to work but it needs to season some more  :'(

Thanks for sharing!
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Re: 'Twister' Yew primitive
« Reply #29 on: October 03, 2011, 09:30:32 am »
Very nice job,beautiful bow. :)
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