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nickf

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Re: English Long Bow
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2009, 01:58:38 pm »
african man,

I've got the same problem; hickory is just very hard to get in the Netherlands, and very, very pricy. thanks to Jorik (darksoul) I found a good supplier of bamboo, wich may be even better in tensile strengths.

Nick
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Offline Cooper

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Re: English Long Bow
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2009, 02:25:26 pm »
Hi Nick, here are two links to german bowyers.
They sell hickory as staves and as backing-slats.
Perhaps it is interesting for you.

http://www.gervase.de/index.php
http://www.bombix.de/index.php

@ african man: Very nice bow
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Re: English Long Bow
« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2009, 02:31:12 pm »
That looks excellant.  Anyway that we could get a better shot of that interesting fletching?

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Re: English Long Bow
« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2009, 03:54:28 pm »
Nickf - I'm starting with bamboo now but want to eventually use only indigenous woods   :-\

Mole - bottom arrow is the one in the pic , top two are a new set of six I've just finished


Chris   ;)
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