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Offline Mafort

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Iron wood ELB
« on: October 22, 2018, 05:02:45 pm »
Does hophornbeam work for an English longbow? Just curious. Also what about smooth leaf elm? Ive seen a few made from Osage
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Iron wood ELB
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2018, 01:20:21 am »
Hop hornbeam is fine for an ELB. I think the East coast NA bows were very much like an ELB if I remember rightly.
Anyhow I made an NA style bow that is virtually an ELB with a flat belly and self nocks 50# shoots nicely.
It was made from a stave I was given when I was over at the Classic :)
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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Iron wood ELB
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2018, 06:39:39 pm »
I'm pretty sure Marc St. Louis made a heavy draw ELB from HHB. He did it as a build-along if I'm not mistaken.

Okay, I had to look. Here it is...

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,33287.0.html
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