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@@Man_fay_the_Bru You could lower the price, but how much quality of product, materials, talent, and skill honed from years of experience do you also want them to lower? ;)
@@longbows If your comment was for me, you may have misunderstood. My comment was directed at the person who suggested lowering your price in a slightly sarcastic way of chiding people who expect craftsmanship for nothing..
I never get fatigued from watching hands on fabrication shows. Intuitive! Bows- now your talking!! Wonderful skill and craftsmanship!! Guys, keep up the wonderful work!
cleaning up all those wood shavings for a cracked bow! -The other side of the bow is when your trying to make a quickie-fun bow and it turns into a belle! Thanks for sharing my man!
Were you able to cut the cracked section off and reshape the bow into a shorter one so all that work didn't go to waste, or was it firewood at that moment?
Quick question I haven’t been able to find online about target English longbows, the first is why are low brave heights preferred for them as I never see braceheights over 6 inches ? And for bamboo backed bows, why is it important to have less nodes of the bamboo, is that so there are less weak points on the backing ? Cheers, great videos
on my Victorian English Longbows I use a 6 1/2" bracing height, this can obviously vary if the bow is outside of the normal 'adult' length of bow. I have never expressed the need for less nodes in particular, it won't nice as it makes tillering the bow easier, but it's not a requirement. They don't present any more of a weak point in my experience, the other materials are far more likely to break than the Bamboo.
always a pleasure to watch you work: as an amateur bowyer myself is it possible to buy bow blanks from you? pre glued laminates etc? or even the laminates to glue together?
@@longbows ill have to stick with my stock of hazel for selfbows for now! LOL hard to find trusted suppliers of materials; even for a laminate stave; cant even find a good supplier of hickory to try a flat bow in the UK.
Oh thats nasty, long hours and hard work for zero gains... i see you using a flat plane for tillering, I use light rasp and files then cabinet scraper, but i am not building for customers, don't het discouraged keep cranking out the longbows
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Lower the price of your bows then
how will that help this channel keep going?
@@Man_fay_the_Bru You could lower the price, but how much quality of product, materials, talent, and skill honed from years of experience do you also want them to lower? ;)
Why would I lower the price, how would making less money help?
@@longbows If your comment was for me, you may have misunderstood. My comment was directed at the person who suggested lowering your price in a slightly sarcastic way of chiding people who expect craftsmanship for nothing..
I never get fatigued from watching hands on fabrication shows. Intuitive! Bows- now your talking!! Wonderful skill and craftsmanship!! Guys, keep up the wonderful work!
You are so welcome
cleaning up all those wood shavings for a cracked bow! -The other side of the bow is when your trying to make a quickie-fun bow and it turns into a belle! Thanks for sharing my man!
After seeing this from a master, I don't feel so bad now about my failures. Thank you for sharing.
Exactly why I am happy to share, failing wood can happen to anyone, keep going.
Really relaxing watching this over breakfast! Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
thank you . terry
thanks for watching and commenting, each comment helps the channel continue
Saudações do BRASIL🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷, 👏👏👏👏 Gosto muito dos seus vídeos, são excelentes
is pin oak any good for bows . terry
Sorry, I have never used it
Damn, I was waiting for it to break on the tiller machine thing.
The day I get that 'holy grail' footage the title of the video will say as much and so will the thumbnail
Sorry about the failure, sending my good wishes
thanks, part of the profession
I'd bind the end with sinew or shorten the bow.
Its cracked from back to front, it wont survive binding, we may well shorten it when we get time to look at it again.
Oh man, that crack is heartbreaking… so small but so devastating… it would have been a gorgeous bow!
no worries, it happens
Were you able to cut the cracked section off and reshape the bow into a shorter one so all that work didn't go to waste, or was it firewood at that moment?
Havent had time to look at it yet since spotting the crack.
Quick question I haven’t been able to find online about target English longbows, the first is why are low brave heights preferred for them as I never see braceheights over 6 inches ?
And for bamboo backed bows, why is it important to have less nodes of the bamboo, is that so there are less weak points on the backing ? Cheers, great videos
on my Victorian English Longbows I use a 6 1/2" bracing height, this can obviously vary if the bow is outside of the normal 'adult' length of bow.
I have never expressed the need for less nodes in particular, it won't nice as it makes tillering the bow easier, but it's not a requirement. They don't present any more of a weak point in my experience, the other materials are far more likely to break than the Bamboo.
always a pleasure to watch you work: as an amateur bowyer myself is it possible to buy bow blanks from you? pre glued laminates etc? or even the laminates to glue together?
Thanks, glad you like it. No, we dont do bow blanks, sorry.
@@longbowsfair enough. Was at a rove couple of weekends ago and saw a couple of people running your bows
Wish we had the spare materials, lol. Great, glad to hear.
@@longbows ill have to stick with my stock of hazel for selfbows for now! LOL hard to find trusted suppliers of materials; even for a laminate stave; cant even find a good supplier of hickory to try a flat bow in the UK.
Indeed, we have the same problem, hence not getting rid of what we have lol
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Oh thats nasty, long hours and hard work for zero gains... i see you using a flat plane for tillering, I use light rasp and files then cabinet scraper, but i am not building for customers, don't het discouraged keep cranking out the longbows
Not discouraged, been doing this for 40 years, part of the profession