This is my first Yew branch. I will be doing more, I was really pleased with the look. It was about 1 1/4" in diameter. You can see the sapwood wrap almost all the way around the handle.It's 66" NTN and 43#@27". When i got the branch I roughed it out and strapped it to an R/D caul. It stayed there for six months or so and then went into the warm box for another 3 or 4 months. The recurves didn't stay bent well so I steamed them into a better shape. It took a little set and ended up with the tips about an inch behind the handle. I could have heated a bit of deflex out but it shot nice and I didn't want to mess up the string alignment. It shoots in the 155 fps @10gpp range. Tips are fumed Ocean Spray and the arrow pass is fumed end grain Ocean Spray with a chalk powder/CA line.
