Is there a Longbow in this piece of Wood? Blackthorn Longbow. Part One. Woodland to Stave.

Is there a Longbow in this piece of Wood? Blackthorn Longbow. Part One. Woodland to Stave. I cut a stave of wood from a blackthorn tree eight months ago. It has been drying ever since. Will it make a longbow? Will I fail or succeed? 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? Thank you for watching. Comments, likes, suggestions and subscriptions all very welcome. Self-filmed with a Panasonic GH4 + Lumix 14-140mm lens, GoPro Hero 3 and DJI Mavic Pro aerial camera drone. Edited with iMovie. Subscribe here:    / @mickgrewcock   Connect here:   / amgredfoxwood   And here:   / redfoxwood   And here:   / mickgrewcock   Pioneers by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ #mickgrewcock #longbow #warbow