Wonky Yew Longbow Stave. Can I Make a Bow from this Terrible Yew Branch - or will it become firewood? Part One. High winds felled a branch of thirty year old yew. It has many knots, many branches and a bad kink. Can I make an English longbow from it?
I have been making bows for eighteen months - sometimes I think that I've spent all this time making bad bows from good pieces of wood! But have I learned enough in that time to make a good bow from a bad piece of wood?
I start work on a truly horrible piece of yew which has so many knots and potentially weak areas that I am sure it will shatter the first time it is bent. But to get to that stage I have to work the wood into a rough bow shape - and that's what I do in this video.
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