This year 2020 has been a strange one to say the least! A piece of advice in life, to expect the unexpected cannot have been more applicable to this year where unexpected circumstances have driven a wagon and horses right through all of our well laid plans. Our sport of […]
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Conventional wisdom in the bowyers art these days seems to hold to the opinion that yew from our British isles is at worst useless, and at best highly inferior to all imported yew. I do not think it is a point of view that would have been adhered to in […]
I had an interesting request from an old customer recently, a good repeat customer who has had a few bows of various types from me now over the last few years (and who obviously must like and trust me as a bowyer!). This time he wanted a take-down longbow – […]
This has always been a favourite point of speculation and discussion regarding the medieval longbow. It is also one in which people often have much-cherished and fiercely defended points of view – frequently with little or no supporting evidence. With all traditional archery cultures, you tend to get two schools […]
You could say that all longbow shooting these days is sport as we do not have to use the longbow for anything else now. However, what I mean by sport here is target archery and field archery as well as the other less commonly pursued disciplines of clout, popinjay and […]
It is probably true to say that there are few things as quitessentially British, or dare we say English as the longbow. It is deeply embedded in our history and heritage yet it is probably true to say that only quite a small minority of the population could even correctly […]
As bows go the longbow is a simple one, compared to many designs from around the world incorporating different materials, lamination, shape-forming etc. such as the famous Turkish composite bows. In essence the design is very simple being a straight stave of wood carved to form. However, despite this simplicity […]
The bow is one of man’s oldest inventions. Today there cannot be many inventions dating back at least to the last ice age, which are still used in an almost unchanged form. Yet that is true of the bow – more specifically the English, or European longbow. Our modern age […]