beginners guide to making a longbow

[alanesq]

Over the last 6 months I have taught myself (with a lot of help from forum members) to make longbows / warbows
so I thought that to return all the help I have received I would try and get down in writing all I have learned in the hope it will be of help/interest to any others who would like to give bow making a try

  my "The Back Street Bowyer" guide is available for download as a PDF file from www. alanesq. com

Its early days and I hope to improve it a lot in the near future

[heavybow]

Alan its to small to read. marlon

[alanesq]

It looks ok on mine? - I will play with the settings and try re saving it

btw - if you right click on the link and select "save target as" you can save the PDF file to your hard disk

[Marc St Louis]

No offense alanesq but all this link does is brings one to your site where there is a link to the englishwarbow message board but no mention of PA. I don't really think this one can stay but I will confer with the others on this first before making a decision.

[alanesq]

No offense alanesq but all this link does is brings one to your site where there is a link to the englishwarbow message board but no mention of PA. I don't really think this one can stay but I will confer with the others on this first before making a decision.

O blimey - my first critic ;-)

I will modify it to include link to this forum as well.  I only "pulished" it yesterday (on englishwarbow.com) and hadnt really planned to mention it anywhere else for a while

[Justin Snyder]

Alan, that isn't the issue. PA requests that we not allow links to sites other than their advertisers. That has links to lots including commercial sites.  I disabled the link but will leave it there until a concensus is reached on what is the appropriate way to handle it.  You could always remove the links to all sites if you wish. Justin

[alanesq]

Alan, that isn't the issue. PA requests that we not allow links to sites other than their advertisers. That has links to lots including commercial sites.  I disabled the link but will leave it there until a concensus is reached on what is the appropriate way to handle it.  You could always remove the links to all sites if you wish. Justin

I see :-(

Just delete this thread then
I dont want to have to start worrying about this sort of thing every time I edit the guide
I think the links will be important to anyone trying to use the guide

[Marc St Louis]

It's not necessary to delete the thread. Disabling the link is sufficient

[alanesq]

It's not necessary to delete the thread. Disabling the link is sufficient

ok, hope my modification to my first post is ok ?

Cheers
Alan

[Marc St Louis]

That's good Alan

Thanks

[alanesq]

:-)

[SimonUK]

Alan, why the spaces in the web address? People will copy and paste it and it won't work. Have it like this but not selected as a link:

www.alanesq.com

[SimonUK]

oops, it comes up automatically as a link

[Marc St Louis]

Alan, why the spaces in the web address? People will copy and paste it and it won't work. Have it like this but not selected as a link:

www.alanesq.com

Actually that works too since there's nothing on your homepage that has a conflict of interest with PA

[alanesq]

oops, it comes up automatically as a link

lol - that's why ;-)

I think everyone is happy now :-)