I set myself a task: could I build an ash longbow within a day?

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I think that, at the zenith of warbow and longbow manufacture in the 14th and 15th centuries, bowyers must have made bows in less than a day - driven as they were by the very same forces that drive manufacturers today. Time is money, then as now, and goods have to be made within price and to a fixed standard. So making a bow in a day was - in my opinion - routine all those years ago. The question for me was: could I make a bow in a day? I work with hand tools in the autumn woods and make a simple ash longbow with a draw weight of 40+ lbs and all done within five hours. It's a simple bow, but it works. Hopefully encouragement to all beginner bowyers that a bow can be made by someone new to bow making and can - if wished - be done quite rapidly.

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