Sas pioneer traditional wood long bow.
Best american wood for longbow.
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Osage wood makes an attractive bow as well.
Nowadays archers become more interested in traditional bows.
Al prefers osage wood above all others because of it s density ruggedness and longevity.
Yew the wood most associated with the longbow is yew imported in huge quantities for many years in the heyday of the longbow as a weapon of war.
The best option is to back it with a moderate wood such as maple.
Yew is typically regarded as the best wood for making longbows.
Osage bow shown below.
Cherry very weak in tension and not overly strong in compression.
It seems to me that the best bow material for bow making is bamboo.
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It forms the back of the bow and is being stretched.
Hackberry very similar to elm and makes a very good bow for its density.
Stock bows are bows that were made to have immediately available for those that don t want to wait to have a custom bow made.
Sapwood the white wood that is on the outside of the tree just below the bark excels under tension.
From the medieval english longbows to american style flat bows and self bows aka selfbows.
However as individual bowyers have their own preferences some choose to make longbows from white oak red oak hickory red elm american elm osage orange or rock maple instead.
I don t know the moe or mor of the wood but it will flex and return to it s original shape better than the ones i have made from hickory hard maple and pacific yew.
However apart from simple short lived lightweight bows english yew is not generally a good longbow wood.
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