Pip Bickerstaffe seminar/workshop

[Tarkwin]

Pip Bickerstaffe will be 'sharing some of his experience' at Chiltern Archery on 7th Oct..

see http://www.chilternonline.com/bickerstaffe.html for more info..

I might try to make it..if I do...I'll be the beardy one

T.

[clickerati]

Wow, looks really interesting. Don't think I can afford it, though.

[TimS]

No - I'll be 'the beardy one'

[Radar_UK]

I may go along but I don't have a beard - is it compulsory ?

[numpty]

I'll go if I dont have a shoot on. I'm in two minds about growing one just to keep in with the in crowd.

[provins]

And at which Chiltern Archery store will this little soiree take place?

[Tarkwin]

The one in Aston Clinton

T

[Huffy]

Has anyone attended one of Pips talks,30 pounds sounds enough but if its comes with an recommendation I may made the journey.

Best wishes , Mark

[TimS]

I had the pleasure of spending a good part of last Sunday with Pip (and his Dad and their Head Bowyer - Fred) last Sunday when he visited our club shoot.

I have met Pip several times before, but the first time I have had the opportunity to spend that much time with him - I certainly learned a lot, his knowledge is enclopedic and his theories are logically thought out. He is also a very pleasant chap- as are Roy (his dad - a founder member of NFAS, who can still shoot with the big boys) and Fred!

I gather he is going to be showing some of his new bow performance measurement techniques and discussing the implications at the Chiltern event - it will certainly be very interesting.

I actually thought it was £10, but you are correct - it is £30 ... not cheap but I suspect it will be well worthwhile if you are interested in traditional archery.

I still plan on going.

TimS

[Huffy]

I attended the talk by Pip Bickerstaff and it was a very good day. Some of the points that Pip bought up were very interesting including the lifespan of a longbow. He suggested that 2 to 3 years for a basic hickory/lemonwood bow and 5 to 6 years for a bow made from more exotic timbers before the bow lost its crispness and the performance dropped off. Also he said that a good laminate bow should out perform a yew longbow.

He also had copies of both his books and answered questions about the contents. An interesting point was about the poundage of the Mary Rose bows. His view was that poundage’s of the bows would be about 90/100 lbs. The reasoning is the nocks in the arrows found are approx 1/8 inch and a linen string of that diameter would be at its breaking limit at those poundage’s and if the bows were at the higher poundage’s that have been suggested the strings could not have stood the strain.

He also demonstrated some pieces of equipment that he had built, one to show the draw curves of a bow and a mechanical shooting machine. This machine that was set up on the shooting line on the Chiltern shop range was used to show that a longbow, AFB and a short recurve all of the same poundage, would shoot the same weight arrow at almost the same speed.(I guess that the other archers on the line including Big Boy Blue and Radar UK were very surprised to see a longbow archer using a car battery to shoot a bow).

Best wishes , Mark