Re: (TFT) Re: Dodging arrows

[Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com>]

Stayner adds that the best wood is grown in the poor soil of the mountains;
this produced the desired light grained
wood.39<http://margo.student.utwente.nl/sagi/artikel/longbow/notes.html>
Ascham
described the best yew for bow staves as coloured:
"...lyke virgin wax or golde, having a fine longe grayne, even from the one
ende of the bowe, to the other... the short grayne are for a most part very
brittle."40<http://margo.student.utwente.nl/sagi/artikel/longbow/notes.html>

Staves were cut only in winter, when the sap was
down.41<http://margo.student.utwente.nl/sagi/artikel/longbow/notes.html>
Stayner
notes that the yew wood trade was tied to the wine trade. To insure an
adequate supply of bows, "at one time, all wine imports (from Southern
France) had to have longbow staves in the cargo as well."


On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Jay Carlisle <maou.tsaou@gmail.com> wrote:

> http://margo.student.utwente.nl/sagi/artikel/longbow/longbow.html
> The English Medieval war arrow, like the longbow, is a controversial
> subject. Known as the clothyard shaft, it was efficient, cheap, capable of
> being mass-produced, and "made in greater numbers than any other type of
> arrow in history".50<http://margo.student.utwente.nl/sagi/artikel/longbow/notes.html> But
> few sources agree to its length: estimates range from 27 to 36 inches.
>
> A close examination of the sources tend to point to approximately 27
> inches as the correct figure. The clothyard was not a standard yard.The
> term comes from the reign of Edward III, when he introduced Flemish weavers
> into England. The weavers brought their own system of measurement with
> them. Known as the "clothyard ", "clothier's yard", "ell", or "Flemish
> yard", it was 27 4/10 inches long.52<http://margo.student.utwente.nl/sagi/artikel/longbow/notes.html> The
> late John E. Morris, the acknowledged authority on the military
> organisation and tactics of Edward I, supports this conclusion by noting
> that a draw length of 36 inches from a 65 pound or strong bow is
> biomechanically impossible.53<http://margo.student.utwente.nl/sagi/artikel/longbow/notes.html>
>
> Bows were not made all at once. Cut down in winter, they were roughed out
> and left to cure for a year or two. After the bow was "seasoned", it was
> worked in slow stages into the finished product. Often these steps occurred
> at intervals of a year for three or four years.
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