Yew Warbow

[Marc St Louis]

Paul
A stone is equal to 14#

[cowboy]

Thanks Marc - that's cool! Must be an old European measure of weight.
 Steve: Sounds to me that if your 11stone weight and pulling 125 lbs @ 32" - then your plenty stout . Aught to be able to handle war bows..

[Lost Arra]

Marc: what do you use to polish the horn?

[stevesjem]

Thanks Marc - that's cool! Must be an old European measure of weight.
 Steve: Sounds to me that if your 11stone weight and pulling 125 lbs @ 32" - then your plenty stout . Aught to be able to handle war bows..

Hi Cowboy
Well i don't know about stout, i've never been called that before, now if this bow comes out at 154lb then i have got to try and shoot 100% of my body weight at the moment i am shooting approx 82% of my body weight comfortably, so we will see.

Cheers

Steve

[Marc St Louis]

The string on this bow is a FF string, I would have used a 14 strand for better performance but Steve wanted a 20 strand string.

After rough shaping the horn I started out with 100 grit paper and worked my way down to 300 grit. I then polished it up with steel wool.

[eduardbilanin]

Marc........you are an great bowyer.

[Yeomanbowman]

I cannot see Marc's images is it just me?

[Marc St Louis]

No it's not you. Looks like my web site is down again.  Should be back up later or at least tomorrow

[Badger]

Mark, I am really excited to see one of your bows going over to europe. I can't wait to hear the results. When are you going to ship it out? Steve

[Marc St Louis]

Actually Steve if I were to tiller a warbow for flight I would tiller it differently than this.  This bow should handle heavy arrows well though.

It went out yesterday

[Marc St Louis]

Nice work Marc, I'm looking foward to seeing this bow being shot, I'll try and get a bit of film of Mark shooting it.

That would be great Nick

[Slivershooter]

Marc, Another beauty!

[The Burnt Hill Archer]

The string on this bow is a FF string, I would have used a 14 strand for better performance but Steve wanted a 20 strand string.

with that much weight i was wondering how many strands. do you know offhand what the lbs to strands ratio is?

[Marc St Louis]

I had some bad news from Steve today. The bow came in damaged.  Really pisses me off.  I shipped the bow by UPS and had packaged it quite well in a re-enforced triangular cardboard box. I hope the damage is not too serious

BHI. The FF string I use has a claimed break strength of 90 lbs.

[adb]

hey, marc

i send all my bows in abs sewer pipe.