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NIGHTBRINGER'S non-warhammer woodworking!

NIGHTBRINGER said:
Can you imagine those people that effectively use 120-130 lbs English longbows?!!? :wideyed:
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Aginor said:
Yeah, but I can tell you that they are not doing their bodies a favor there.
You can do it, but if you regularly use a bow above 70lbs or so you will have a health problem after some time.
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Sorry to necro this part of the thread, but I somehow never saw it was there.

English Medieval Longbowmen had to train since they were children to become so deadly accurate with it, and had to practice extremely regularly (at least once or twice a week, if not daily). This was ultimately one of the longbow’s flaws, alongside its inability to penetrate plate armour, which saw it replaced by early firearms like arquebuses and handguns. These weapons were actually pretty inaccurate in comparison to the longbow in the hands of a skilled user, and even muskets in the 17th Century only had a semblance of accuracy at close range (it was the 18th Century that was truly when firearms became as accurate as they were penetrating), but it was the fact that you only needed to train a musketeer, handgunner or arquebusier for several months for him to reach the peak of firing accuracy and skill, as opposed to around 10 years for an archer, alongside the ability of these weapons to penetrate plate armour if they did hit, that saw them replace the bow.

In addition, many skeletons of medieval archers have been found with their spines curved due to the massive draw weight, which is the main reason that they were easily identified as former archers.
 
NIGHTBRINGER said:
Ring bowl made from Walnut and Maple...

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Looks cool!

If you ever get your hands on a lathe you could build something similar, fill the gaps with resin and then make it a solid bowl part wood part resin
There are awesome woodturning videos on YT by people who do that kind of stuff.
It seems like you have the wood working skills necessary to pull that off as well.
 
Aginor said:
Looks cool!

If you ever get your hands on a lathe you could build something similar, fill the gaps with resin and then make it a solid bowl part wood part resin
There are awesome woodturning videos on YT by people who do that kind of stuff.
It seems like you have the wood working skills necessary to pull that off as well.
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Thank you!!

I've seen some of that stuff and it is amazing. My father-in-law has a lathe, so it is possible. I've always wanted to give it a go.
 
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