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A Crooked Bow
vtsteam:
I added a folded piece of bark as an arrow rest -- you can just see it sticking out from the handle here. I don't know if that is going to work well. Might be a little fragile.
vtsteam:
The heat reatment took out a lot of the string set as you can see here, and evened up the reflex in the tips some. The right (lower) limb still has some twist and thickness due to the big knot, but twists back by the tip. Compare this profile with the erlier one.
vtsteam:
Swarf, I'll try to vary the scenic backgrounds for you! :beer:
S. Heslop:
That looks damn pretty finished.
awemawson:
Yew would appear to have been regarded in a somewhat mystical way from very early times. Many church yards of very ancient origin have had Yew in them 'forever', very often enclosed in a palisade. The foliage (if so you can call it) is of course poisonous and this may have contributed to the mystic views. I seem to remember reading (sorry cannot quote source) that Yew clumps in Church yards often pre-date the churches, which themselves were often established on the site of pagan rituals.
These handed down verbal stories can have very early roots so I suppose that it is entirely possible that they started in the neolithic post last ice age in Britain.
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