Yew core Turkish bow

Excellent work, beautiful, very impressive. You had no issues with the Yew accepting the glue i suppose!?

Wow! A real beauty!

I hope it will be flight-shot, and that we will hear how it performs.

another

Thats good job. Time to see seriouz work. Thank you Scemdonmez ! Long time here posts some ...experiments :lol:

sorry, it is another

Beautiful bow!!

The yew is sapwood only? Other wood in the nocks?

JJ

Congratulations Cem, a real accomplishment. I am very impressed with only 65 gram sinew.

Adam

Wooow! Excelent looking bow! You are very gifted man! Your work is enchanting!

Cem, that's so nice to see you used a yew core, I'm very courious if you have had any issues, as already mentioned, with yew accepting glue.

As JJ mentioned, the slats appear to be sapwood only, but the colour of your wood reminds me rather of heartwood of a female tree, which in many cases is lighter than the heartwood of a male tree, sometimes quite pale. I'm curious too, did you use only sapwood then?

Very gentle and graceful curves.

Congratulation Cem! Another great piece of your Art of Bowmaking. :D

Peter

Beautifull!

I've felt in love :oops: :D

Dear Friends,

Thanks for your comments.

My yew is not big tree, it is about 15cm diameter branch. I found heartwood of yew is very brittle and greasy, it has very thin grains. Heatwood spesific gravity is high but I worried for the accepting the glue so I used the sapwood.Sapwood of the yew is softer and S.gravity is lower, in addition it is very flexible. I do not suggest thin sapwood for stability. I see why English bowyers used the heatwood for the belly . I have to say climate is very important , it makes very differences.
I laminated the ash for the tips ,couse tip yew wood are thin.

Adam, it is short bow so 65 gr is enough. Sides are 5mm.

Regards
Cem

That looking low elevation yew to me. Have U got pic from the hardwood part ring ratio?

I ve a lot of yew what looking like yours. May I would give it a try.....
It is a very handy wood, especially for heat corrections and bend.

Cem; Yew made a good bow. Much to draw on.

Congratulations and thanks for the inspiring pics !

Yew can be heatbent like rubber. But it can split very easy, that?s why it should not be used in the nock, where the string puts enormous pressure on a little spot. Even in Selfbows, but only in the one-sided nock type, this can lead to damage. I had some Alamannic bows split right under the string.

JJ

thanks for the info of yew
i can got lots cheap split yew 6-10CM diameter , and lots yew in air dry times split and lots node on it, very hard find the straight grain yew,all the wood split at here and mildew bamboo , thanks for bad weather i can soak it and after soaking it can dry very fast and very easy break :shock:

cem, did this bow has steady draw weight ?what hapen when draw the bow at 24inch for 10-30 minute the draw weight steady ?can you make a video show it?

Fuzisoli:

I have no heartwood pics , grains are so thin like as cornus mas. I see 2 grain per 1mm. Grains are not regular and straight ring are rare in yew heartwood.

Jiao:

Tillering period takes about 1 month for this bow, many times it is waiting for about 20 min. in full draw and I did not see any problem. İt is stable bow but sometimes corrections takes a long time.

Yew is very good wood, if I can find I will try again. But I must to say I do not see any advantages of the yew according to maple for Turkish core .

Cem

Very very nice!
Could you tell how thick your cores were when you bent them and how long did you steam them for? Did you bend them with the sapwood on the outside of the bend or the inside (next to form)?

Cem Hocam gercekten cok guzel olmus ellerin dert gormesin ..tam bir sanat eseri.yarın geldigimde kısmetse gormeyi cok isterim.gorusmek uzere..

excellent work. I am sure that this bow will work great like others..

Mikekeswick:
The cores were 1,9mm when I bent them. I did not steam the cores, I soaked the cores in cold water about a week, after boiled about 1/2 hour. Bark side is on the belly side.

Serkan:
Sağolasın, darısı başına. Gelince kendin g?r?rs?n. Sevgiler..

Cem

scemdonmez wrote:

Tillering period takes about 1 month for this bow, many times it is waiting for about 20 min. in full draw and I did not see any problem. İt is stable bow but sometimes corrections takes a long time.

Yew is very good wood, if I can find I will try again. But I must to say I do not see any advantages of the yew according to maple for Turkish core .

Cem

thanks, lot's fine material and fine craftwork we can see you do it form turkish,i afraid wood growth too fast in warm area, and the wood ring very fine(about1:1,3-5mm each) in Russia-canada-northchina. i see some people cut circle some hide of the tree or defilade/cover the leafage in summer avoid growth too fast, if we can wait it growth for 10 years :)

Jiao:

I believe young branch or tree(I do not know about bamboo) are the best for composite bows that grown in cold climate. Such tree grains are thick, flexible and clear-without knot. İn addition I think cold climate makes the high s.gravity. Thin grain or cold climate grown young tree = high s.gravity and good stability.

Cem

glad to see it...i've got pacific yew cores right now. Heartwood, though. We'll see how it goes.

Marvellous, ellerine sağlık.
What excites me so much is that the bow is so short AND with a high poundage. Put a blue bead next to it so it is not affected by the bad eye (nazar). I am curious how it draws and shoots. Keep us updated Cem abi.
G?kmen

What a great bow! I think only flight bows were covered in birchbark. What did you use for painting over the birch bark?

The cores were 1,9mm when I bent them.

You mean 1.9cm ?

grains are so thin like as cornus mas. I see 2 grain per 1mm.

This is actually not thin, when it comes to yew. It is 50 rings/inch witch is mediocre. I think high quality yew is over 100 rings/inch (!!).

Put a blue bead next to it so it is not affected by the bad eye (nazar)

How about phallic charms ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_eye#Rome
Or you could polish your bow to be so shiny that is will reflect the evil eye back to its caster. (like medusa).

I?ve seen yew whose yearrings can only be seen with a magnifying glass. But other than stated in a lot of books and in a lot of people?s thinking, yearring density alone in yew has no influence on wood quality. I had lots of beautiful yew with very fine grain that disappointed as a bow, and ugly wide ringed pieces that made exceptional bows. Of course, it can be the other way round, too...

JJ

I have to agree with JJ on that, the amount of growtrings in yew doesn't reflect the wood density or quality. A lot of the premium quality European yew staves I've seen and handled had moderately thick growthrings, most apparently growing conditions make for the difference in the wood's properties.
I've seen yew staves from Oregon and Canada, which sometimes need magnifying glass to count the growthirings, but the wood was very light in hand and sometimes very brittle.

Jkekoni:

Sorry, I mean 19mm.

Put a blue bead next to it so it is not affected by the bad eye (nazar).

:?

Josedom:

Turkish target bows covered by birchbark and leather , birchbark is not only for flight bows. I do not paint over birchbark, just varnished.

G?kmen:

Thanks, İt will be waiting for you :)


Cem