Thread: Announcing The SRP Logo Limited Edition Straight Razor

Originally Posted by Bruno

We have a smily for that:

They do not work well on tapatalk.

Looks like : gaah : without the spaces

I'm not about to complain about the technology in my hand though

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Oh, and one last thing: Robin Hood would most likely have shot what was conventionally called a shortbow. Although the origins of the Robin Hood myths are a whole other thread entirely, he, too, appears prior to the English adoption of the longbow.

"This is the west sir, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend." (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance")

Reading through this thread it seems that things are going well and, it seems like an approriate time to say a big 'THANK YOU" to Robert for all of his efforts.
I wish my smileys were working

Originally Posted by Havachat45

Reading through this thread it seems that things are going well and, it seems like an approriate time to say a big 'THANK YOU" to Robert for all of his efforts.
I wish my smileys were working

Clear your cache and they will work again ...... thanks to Jimbo for the info

Originally Posted by Cangooner

The archetypal 'English' yew longbow wasn't English at all. It was originally Welsh and was largely adopted by the English following the Welsh wars of independence under Llywelyn ap Gruffydd who died in 1282. The bow that was so effective in the Hundred Years War, and therefore to which so many myths have been attributed, was this yew longbow. Other types of bows were used prior to the yew longbow, but apart from eastern composite bows, none could match their power.

This was due to the natural composition of yew. If you make a crosscut of a yew tree trunk, you get a visible distinction between the outside and inside. this is true for all wood, but yew has the interesting property that the outside is very good at resisting expansion, and the inside at resisting compression (or was it the other way around?). You also don't spend a lot of time aiming at full draw with such a bow, because long term compression of the inside might causing permanent deformation.

Anyway, due to this phenomenon, yew was acting like a natural 'lamination', giving the bow extra power. This is called a 'self bow'.

But only slow grown yew can be used, such as grown in dry places with not a lot of rain. Otherwise it grows too fast and becomes too spongy. I read it takes about 80 years to grow a piece of yew suitable for longbows. That is why at a certain time, England insisted that yew was part of trade with dry countries like spain. (1 stave of yew per barrel exported and things like that).

Bow quality yew is fairly rare and ridiculously expensive. And there is no guarantee it will work. I know a master bowyer who made a yew bow for himself, and it shattered on first draw.

Originally Posted by Bruno

This was due to the natural composition of yew. If you make a crosscut of a yew tree trunk, you get a visible distinction between the outside and inside. this is true for all wood, but yew has the interesting property that the outside is very good at resisting expansion, and the inside at resisting compression (or was it the other way around?). You also don't spend a lot of time aiming at full draw with such a bow, because long term compression of the inside might causing permanent deformation.

Anyway, due to this phenomenon, yew was acting like a natural 'lamination', giving the bow extra power. This is called a 'self bow'.

But only slow grown yew can be used, such as grown in dry places with not a lot of rain. Otherwise it grows too fast and becomes too spongy. I read it takes about 80 years to grow a piece of yew suitable for longbows. That is why at a certain time, England insisted that yew was part of trade with dry countries like spain. (1 stave of yew per barrel exported and things like that).

Bow quality yew is fairly rare and ridiculously expensive. And there is no guarantee it will work. I know a master bowyer who made a yew bow for himself, and it shattered on first draw.

You're absolutely right! The same thing that gave composite bows their power (material strong in tension along the front, material strong in compression in behind) applied to the yew bow. In the hands of a well-drilled unit of archers they were a truly fearsome weapon.

Originally Posted by Cangooner

You're absolutely right! The same thing that gave composite bows their power (material strong in tension along the front, material strong in compression in behind) applied to the yew bow. In the hands of a well-drilled unit of archers they were a truly fearsome weapon.

I'll stick to my 223 mini-14 .....

Ahem..... getting things back on track here....

Just got mine in the mail today, and I can say that #5 is definitely alive!

I'll give my impressions of the shave soon.

There's an awful absence of photos in this thread... No 'unboxings' or glamour shots from the lucky first receivers?

Originally Posted by EisenFaust

There's an awful absence of photos in this thread... No 'unboxings' or glamour shots from the lucky first receivers?

Agreed. When I get mine, I will make a nice crapptastic video demonstrating the un-boxing, initial reactions, and then perhaps a shave video complete with me cutting myself...again. It will probably be a few months until my number comes up though