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  1. WillS

    Mary Rose replica arrows

    Thought I'd compile a build log on these, as they're nearly finished. These are historically accurate replicas of the arrows found on the Mary Rose. The shafts are hand-planed from European aspen into 1/2" diameter, 30.5" long. The arrows are tapered from 1/2" to 3/8" at the nock, and the...
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    Leylandii Cypress for arrows...

    I found an old thread on this a while ago (Yew Selfbow I think it was yours?) but wanted to rehash the topic as I've got a tonne of the stuff in nice wide straight logs. Rather than chopping into firewood I'm thinking of splitting and hand-planning into half inch shafts for heavy arrows but...
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    [Warbow] New bow

    I'm posting this as it was a really strange and interesting little bow to make. It came from a very dodgy stave - natural deflex, lots of knots, VERY low rpi count (5 or 6 rings to the inch for most of it) and some spalting / rot in the middle. As I reduced the very thick sapwood to a...
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    New set of roving arrows

    Thought I'd stick up a few pics of my latest set of roving arrows. They're essentially the same as the ones I posted in the DIY - arrows section a while ago, in my post about fletching with full length feathers. These ones however have slightly taller fletchings at 3/4" as they're not flight...
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    Fletching with full feathers

    Thought I'd post a kinda mini tutorial on how I approach fletching with full length feathers. This is mainly required for certain archery groups where using goose feathers is preferred as turkeys weren't around "back then", but goose fletchings also look fantastic on target or field arrows, and...
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    New World Record Set

    This probably won't appeal to the majority of you guys on here, but I thought I'd post it anyway. Might entice some to join in... ;) Last month, Joe Gibbs of the EWBS set a brand spanking new world record for distance shooting a Livery arrow at the EWBS "Mad March Hare" meeting at Donington...
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    [Warbow] Pacific Yew 120# @ 32"

    Just finished this yew warbow, thought I'd put it up as I've not posted any of my bows on here before! It was horrendous to finish - reflexed bottom limb but straight top limb, 3 unrelated flaws that I had to deal with (superglue and crossed fingers!) and a couple of horn nock failures which...
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    New Set Of EWBS Arrows

    Thought I'd stick these here as I just finished a sheaf of warbow arrows. 6 Livery Arrows - 31.5" Poplar shaft, tapered from 1/2" to 3/8" with buffalo horn inserts and fletched with 7 3/8" turkey, whipped with red silk. Tudor Bodkin heads hand forged for me by a guy in Slovakia. 2...
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    SPTA St. George's day shoot/meeting

    Anyone going or been in previous years? I've never been but I can't miss the opportunity to hear Mark Stretton give a talk!
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    Really weird session yesterday...

    I've been shooting for about 4 months now, so I'm still picking stuff up and learning, but something really odd happened at the club yesterday. Almost every single arrow was clicking the side of my bow, leaving a larger and larger dent each time. It had stripped the finish off the side of the...
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    Splicing

    I was about to post this on PA but realised most of the guys there were US based and this is definitely a UK-based query!! What are the best UK-available glues to use for splicing a yew longbow together? Never done splicing before, but I have about 15 lovely pieces of yew that can't be...
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    Choosing the right arrows - help needed!

    Hi guys, I've really recently got heavily into archery, and having made a couple of longbows (some low poundage ash bows and a 65# yew longbow) and some really basic arrows just to practice, I now want to make a full set of a dozen arrows. I'm only really interested in traditional/medieval...
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    Following Belly Grain

    Hey guys, Slightly confused/conflicted about something - I'm working on a Yew longbow from a stave and I've started drawing a centre line down the length of the stave to work out my width measurements from, and my pencil line is following the dead centre of the belly grain exactly. This is...
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    Very confused about yew sapwood!

    Hi guys! This is my first post in here, but I've been a silent lurker for some time, and was wondering if any of you could shed some light on something? I was lucky enough to get a big ol' chunk of yew recently, and I've been slowly roughing it out to longbow dimensions so that I can let it...
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