Ozbow

Happy birthday old bean

Yep, I've had it in varying degrees for about four years. I'm usually ok during practice, but put a 'scoring' target etc in front of me and I get quickly worse. Sometimes it's an unprompted release, mostly it's not being able to get to full draw (despite easily shooting a 100lb+ war bow I often can'...

Just thought I'd post a couple of pics of what's 'Trad' and what isn't to clear things up. They're all reflex or deflex/reflex bows to some degree, so not 'longbows'. All constructed with the riser sandwiched between the limb laminations. But what's this? The maker of the Triple Crown has thought 'W...

Thanks for that info Dennis. It may be a bit late to get advice from your friend. I leave in a week, and the Tokyo leg is looking rather full anyway. We shall see. I'm sure I'll find something.

Thanks,

Andy

Top work Greybeard. Wish I had the skill, time and workshop to attempt such things. I'm heading to Japan in a couple of weeks, mainly driving around Hokkaido. However, I have a few days in Tokyo at the end and hope to go and see Kyudo somewhere. I believe there's a range at a sports complex near the...

Just the response I expected Jeff

There's much discussion about 'longbows' being flat bows, semi-recurves, non-compounds etc and whether there should be different divisions for them in competition. So I've no desire to raise that subject once more. What I would be interested to know is how do people find shooting these different bow...

Yes you're right. Deflex/Reflex. For some reason I always write/say that the wrong way round. A PS. Chris Boynton isn't referring to the Mary Rose bows having bent tips, they don't. He's interested in the fact that the tips seem surprisingly narrow. In his opinion this means they may have been candi...

Yes Jeff, Sorry about the poor quality pics. Taken with iphone, at night, in my tiny kitchen, hence the not very good angle as I can't get any further back. They're all reflex/deflex to some degree apart from (2) the Norseman which has some reflex and (6) the Howard Hill Redman which is flat laid. W...

Well done Mick S. I said it was pretty easy. That said, there is a red herring in there. Bow 2 is my girlfriend's Norseman Priestess. It has about an inch or so of refllex, so that's a 'semi-recurve' too. Bow 6, a Howard Hill Redman is the only 'flat' bow, and therefore 'longbow' according to earlie...

Ok, just for fun, it's quiz time. Dragged six bows off the rack last night. Which are 'modern' (semi-recurve, non-compound) which are 'traditional'? Fairly easy to work out I should think. Bonus points, or perhaps a free beer if you're at the HVTA shoot in October, if you can name what bows they are...

Thanks for the tips on yew suppliers chaps. I've ordered a stave from Dave at Medicine Bow Woods. An 'exceptional' stave apparently, with 80-100 growth rings per inch. Nick L is looking forward to getting his mitts on it and creating 'Towton II'. Here's a few pics of said stave.

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I agree with the above. Went through the same process with my girlfriend in the last year. She started on 20lb or so club club bows, played around with a cheap 30lb Cartel recurve I got from John Mac'. And within about three months we ended up getting Nick L to make a custom longbow 34lb @ 26, which...

Ok Hamish, a stab in the dark as far as dimensions. It was actually quite grunty, despite being a heavy wood. The width at the handle would have been a smidge over 1.5 inches, depth much the same. I can check exact dimensions when I get home tonight though. It was also a bow that was deliberately ma...

Ay Andy I feel your Pain. Roadie. Hey Roadie, not a really a major disappointment. It was always an experimental bow. Cost me about $100 for the stave from Steve Farrell, then Nick did the work in exchange for a set of fancy arrows. We weren't sure how it would hold up. But now we know. So at least...

Hamish wrote:Hi Andy, What were the dimensions for that one?
Hamish.

The dimensions? I can't be exact but, I think it started life at about 80 inches, then Nick brought it down to 78 in the end. It was about 105lb @ 32.

rodlonq wrote:AAAwwww.... that must made ya cringe a bit Andy? Glad you didn't get hurt.

Cheers.... Rod

Yep, a touch sad, but hey ho, it was experimental. And no injuries acquired.

There were a couple of recent posts on making English longbows. I put up a few of shots of a 105lb selfbow made of Brigalow (an Aussie Acacia I believe) which Nick Lintern made for me. The bow was experimental. We knew a few people had successfully made flatbows from it (such as Perry), but didn't k...

Hamish wrote:ooh... pretty. ooh... very expensive.
Lucky man.
Hamish.

I was lucky enough to get 'on the list' before the prices went up. Still, even at the new prices I reckon they're good value. The level of craftsmanship and detail is remarkable. It shoots beautifully too.

My second decent recurve, to add to about ten decent longbows etc. A Blacktail Snakebit, 55@28, 64inches. Snakewood/Gaboon Ebony riser. Birds Eye Maple footed with Snakewood veneers over Bamboo limbs. Shot back to back PB's around Wiseman's with it over the weekend. Consequently I'm rather a happy b...

My 'rules' for Trad' shoots would be: 1. Have fun. 2. Be safe. 3. Share information, knowledge, laughs with like-minded souls. 4. Sledge wherever possible (especially if it's Eoin, Nick or Guy, in my case). 5. Talk nonsense around camp fires. 6. Shoot as well as you can. 7. Enjoy not being at your d...

Ian, Cecilia's bow goes fairly well (i.e. shoots quite flat for a light bow) because the arrows I made for her are matched to it. They're 5/16, around 9 grains per pound of draw weight all up, 100 grain points, and use a fairly low 3 inch fletch. These go well around 3D courses where there's nothing...

well I guess a 150# warbow with 35" arrows is out of the question..... :lol: perhaps some clues to your rough age (teen, adolesant which can cover from 17-80), build, preference for longbow ?? recurve???. I mean I could tell you I used a 45# longbow to hunt with, however I am a bit of a girl.....

Hi Andy mate another set of beautiful arra's (for Sue); what glue do you use on your feathers and what draw weight is that LB of Cecilia's?(apologies if spelt incorrectly) Not sure if the glue question was for me but, I use Goat Tuff on alloys etc, and just regular Fletchtite on woods etc. They bot...

I shoot with a fairly light grip, pressure through the base of thumb and holding the bow with two fingers. I also shoot with a high wrist for some reason - probably because I find it's easier to get a little forward pressure that way. With my war bow, the default setting seems to be a crushed/compre...

Can't wait.

Bugger. If it was a lefty you'd have $600 in your pocket.

And Sue, yep, it's a great spot.

Well Graydon,

We both won. And while Cecilia was the only female longbower, she beat half the blokes. In fact, she was only 24 points of the bloke in second place overall.

So now you know.

Andy

To answer you Dennis. The stave was a split section of trunk, not a sapling. We picked it because it was the largest and straightest grained. My guess is the tree would have been about 1-12 inches in diameter. Interestingly, Nick was surprised how long it took to get down to a reasonable moisture co...