effectiveness of western indian bows

[youngbowyer]

I'm down to my last few staves and one of them is a short 48-50 inch yew stave. In the traditional bowyers bible volume one, page 178, there a couple of bows that look like they would fit such a stave. Which design would work best and produce a sweet shooting bow that doesn't stack. I'm looking for a 40-45   lbs draw weight.

[JW_Halverson]

Horse bows were all hardwoods and were fairly narrow.  I am not familiar with how yew would behave with that much bending.  You could think about a west coast paddle-style bow if you have enough width.  That allows you to experiment with some pretty wild painting designs, too.

[PatM]

 splice some levers in....

[Christian Soldier]

Yeah, I'd take a look through the west coast bows in TBB1.

You could make a yew Ishi style bow allright with that length.

I've never seen a horse bow made from yew so I'd definitly suggest the paddle bow route.

Make sure you still round and make the handle plenty comfortable so its not a pain to shoot. 

[Bryce]

Take the specs from the book and make a bow. A little longer if you want. Very safisticated bows.

[bubby]

yeah a paddle bow, , check out all the west coast bows, some weren't as wide as others