This is how our good work gets sabotaged

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

Maybe he's never seen the Monty Python guide to spotting trees?




"The Larch....the Larch"

[JW_Halverson]

I saw a pretty nice bow a Brit brought to the Classic. Looked like a right, nice shooter to me.

Why yes, it was.  And is.  I shot it again just the other day.  Just three arrows, a couple of lighter spined ones I found abandoned in a corner.  The "Baked Potato Bow" still lives on!

...or did you mean that manky old yew longbow Del forgot to take home with him and Pappy is storing for him?

May be there is not enough good wood in the UK for mass production?

For the hobby bowyer there will be enough wood in the UK

And that is why wine merchants shipping wine to England were required to pay tax in the form of Italian yew staves back in the goode olde dayes.

The larch. 






































The larch.

[Del the cat]

And now for something completely differnt...
Yeah, Italian Yew... that whole thing amuses me.
As if the Italians are going to trudge up mountains to specially select the finest Yew... no, they'll simply cut the easiest stuff they can find...
But why is it high altitude Yew? Asks the believer in this propaganda for Italian wood...
D'uh, maybe it's because Italy is a small mountainous country and all the fertile low lying land is used for agriculture?
Of course I don't know, I wasn't there, but at least I admit I don't know, unlike these peddlers of bovine excrement.

I like the story in Glen StCharles' book "Billets to Bows".
The old timer and a young guy are out harvesting Yew from a mountain logging road.
The old timer says.. "Only cut trees above the road".
The young guy asks, " Is that 'cos they are that bit higher altitude?"
"Nope... you ever tried dragging a log uphill? " comes the reply
Del

[Zuma]

Was Otsi, (the Alpine cadaver), Italian , Roman, Viking,
Austrian or French???
No matter the Ilse have a tremendous
imprint there from all points south and north
east and west
Who really cares about a tree in it all.
It's just a hunk of wood that the indigenous
folks made the best of.
And oh well, they conquered a heck of a lot
 the world nevertheless.
Del what is the mass of power there
in the Ilse today? Can it be explained in wood?
Zuma
Edit-- The reason I ask is because I have a great interest
in British history over all. Two nieces born and raised
in Bury St Edmonds and ancestors from Linken shire
back in 1400's

[soy]

Wow....I mean so true,send me all the bow wood and I will see to it it gets disposed of