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Escribano
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Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy

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The town where I live, has a long history of archery from medieval times. I fancied a hobby that took me into our large garden, and as my wife is doing the growing, I await delivery of a traditional, Eastern recurve bow. In the meantime, I wondered about how bows are made so I bought part one of the bowyer's bible. After many pages discussing wood, curing, profiles and angles it goes on to say that a pretty decent bow can also be made in a matter of hours. Which is like saying a flamenco guitar uses wood cured for years and takes weeks to make but anyone can also knock one up with green wood in a few hours. I gave up on it when it was obvious to me that with all the pseudo-science, each bow can be very different, even from the same wood following some basic rules. It completely lost me when this American book explains that a particular English bowyer could trace their ancestors back to the Stone Age Anyway, I might make a longbow (it is in my English blood, after all), but I am going to learn how to shoot one first. The archery festival in my town
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