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Offline beartail

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Dont take it for granted!
« on: September 04, 2015, 10:21:03 am »
I have been making and shooting bows since 1999 and I have never even had the chance to hold a beautiful yew war bow much less shoot one! I haven't even seen or touched one!  im just saying, sit back and take it in how fortunate you guys are to be enjoying these beautiful, awesome, functional works of art! a yew English long bow to me is the highest step on the latter. don't get me wrong, I lovem all,but even a complicated compound bow made with a million different materials taking months to build cant compare to one of these beauty's! I inveigh you guys! so never take it for granted what you have.peace.
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Offline WillS

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Re: Dont take it for granted!
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2015, 01:29:57 pm »
Where are you from?  Yew isn't that rare or hard to find any more unless you're in a country that doesn't have it or allows the import of it - seems odd that you've never come across any.
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Dont take it for granted!
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2015, 02:42:55 pm »
Define hard to find? For the average builder it is a bit spendy, and still hard to find a good stave without the risk of getting taken by an online seller.
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If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got.
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Offline WillS

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Re: Dont take it for granted!
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2015, 03:43:21 pm »
For sure, but I would have thought that if you'd been making bows for 16 years and yew warbows had always interested you, you'd find a way to get hold of some.  In the UK it's free if you know where to look, and you guys in the States have it growing in a lot of places.  I remember a thread on here a while back from somebody in the US detailing how much yew is chopped down and burned as waste.
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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Re: Dont take it for granted!
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2015, 03:51:02 pm »
Sadly there is a lot of good wood that is cut down and wasted. One of the tree services I know chips all of their trees and dumps them at a goat farm.
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If you always do what you always did you'll always get what you always got.
27 inch draw, right handed. Bow building and Knapping.

Offline WillS

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Re: Dont take it for granted!
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2015, 04:19:33 pm »
That was my point! If you give cards out to all of the people who come across trees, whether they're tree surgeons, arborists, enviromentalists, local government employees, park wardens... and every one of them knows you're interested in getting hold of some yew, before long you're drowning in the stuff. 

People have to PAY to get timber removed or stored somewhere.  And along comes somebody offering to take it off their hands for nothing.  Simple.
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Offline bowandarrow473

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Re: Dont take it for granted!
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2015, 09:59:30 pm »
You guys are super lucky, I've never even handled yew, nope it's just elm, hickory, and dogwood. But I'm okay with that.
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Offline Bowman

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Re: Dont take it for granted!
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2015, 09:00:41 am »
Beartail: No problem finding a suitable stave. Use e-bay, use your network. I'm sure you will find something. Where do you live?

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