Best American Wood For Longbow

Osage bow shown below.

Best american wood for longbow.

The best option is to back it with a moderate wood such as maple. Best longbow reviews top 12 models 1. Osage orange tree seeds click here. Osage wood makes an attractive bow as well.

Art young speaks highly of a hickory backed walnut longbow. The beauty and strength in yew as a bow wood comes from the sapwood heartwood combination. The sas pioneer is one of the best traditional longbows with some unique. However apart from simple short lived lightweight bows english yew is not generally a good longbow wood.

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. Hackberry very similar to elm and makes a very good bow for its density. 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. 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.

Sas pioneer traditional wood long bow. Here is a list of the bows we currently have in stock and ready to ship out immediately. Yew is typically regarded as the best wood for making longbows. From the medieval english longbows to american style flat bows and self bows aka selfbows.

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. Nowadays archers become more interested in traditional bows. Sapwood the white wood that is on the outside of the tree just below the bark excels under tension. It seems to me that the best bow material for bow making is bamboo.

Hungarian flagella longbow horsebow editor s choice. Al prefers osage wood above all others because of it s density ruggedness and longevity. It forms the back of the bow and is being stretched. All wood bows that strike at the heart of primitive archery.