ALMOST OKAY! 😕 Blackthorn Bow. 80lbs @ 27" Primitive Style Bark On Bow - Could be Better! Pt 3. I continue work on the blackthorn bow - as always I struggle with tillering - until I end up with an 80lb @ 27" draw primitive style blackthorn bow. A qualified success, could be better but I've learned a bit more!
Blackthorn is normally a hedgerow shrub and has been used in the UK for centuries to form living, stock-proof fences. But in a hedge blackthorn rarely grows in to a tree. I visit a wood land alongside a blackthorn thicket. Here, blackthorn have spread into the wood and escaped hedge cutting and have developed into small trees - one of which was sufficiently straight to suggest it might have a bow in it..
Blackthorn, prunus spinosa (sloeberry in the USA, Schwarzdorn in Germany) is a fruit bearing tree, white with blossom in early UK spring and yielding bitter, small fruits called sloes in the autumn.
Rarely mentioned as a bow wood, the dense and heavy timber has a thick and dark bark and beautiful grain. Renowned as the wood for another famous weapon, the Irish shillelagh - and also for beautiful walking sticks - I wonder if It will make a bow?
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