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Old 12-01-07, 10:06 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Cheshire
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Longbow design
Hi. There's a drawing of a longbow I made recently on our club website at http://www.scfa.org.uk/longbow.pdf . This shows the dimensions for roughing out your blank. Shaping and tillering then need to be done slowly using something like a block plane and flat bottomed spoke shave.

I've tried these dimensions using Ash and Pau Amarillo (like lemonwood). Both shoot well. Both bows are 40lb draw at 27", but I had to remove considerably more wood from the Pau Amarillo blank.

Please share your progress with us.

Regards, Dave
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