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Offline ErictheViking

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Re: Yew Longbow
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2012, 12:34:03 pm »
Beautiful bow! veynice work.
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Offline Pappy

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Re: Yew Longbow
« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2012, 12:47:11 pm »
Beautiful bow,I love the look of Yew. :)
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Yew Longbow
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2012, 01:56:45 pm »
Glad to see you get her posted up Weylin. I bet your dad never envisioned his son making a bow from that wood when he cut 30 years ago.  8)

I have had the pleasure of seeing this bow in the flesh several times now. The pics don't do it justice.  It shoots an arrow with some authority too. 
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the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline Del the cat

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Re: Yew Longbow
« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2012, 04:02:40 pm »
Very handsome bow, great to have some wood with a history.
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Offline Weylin

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Re: Yew Longbow
« Reply #19 on: August 11, 2012, 03:09:20 pm »
Thank you for the compliments.  :)

Offline PaulN/KS

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Re: Yew Longbow
« Reply #20 on: August 11, 2012, 05:38:04 pm »
Good looking bow. I like how you handled that knot.
It must have been cool working a stave that your father had cut down.