Nightmare on Elm Street! Misadventures with Elm Longbow Staves. Some Lessons Learned! HD

Nightmare on Elm Street! Misadventures with Elm Longbow Staves. Some Lessons Learned! There are many pleasures to be had self-learning skills such as bowmaking - but there are many mistakes and hard lessons to be learned on the way. Four months ago I felled a twenty five year old English elm tree with the intention of making several longbows from this fine bow wood. I had never worked or used elm previously and have learned many lessons during the splitting and seasoning of this wood. Some pieces have warped, some have split - the only piece so far to have shown no signs of problems is a piece of elm that I worked to rough, oversized bow dimensions, coated in animal fat and clamped to a wooden form. Fingers crossed that it stays that way! My Gear: Panasonic GH5 Panasonic GH4 25mm f1.7 Lumix 14mm-140mm f3.5-f5.6 100mm-400mm f4.0-f6.3 Canon G7X GoPro Hero iPhone 7 Bushnell Aggressor Trail Cam Velbon DV-7000 tripod and fluid head Mini slider dolly DJI Mavic Pro drone Videos edited with Final Cut Pro X Coloured with Pixel Film Studios Cinematic LUTs MacBook Pro 15" iMac 27" GTech & My Passport Storage Thank you for watching. Comments, likes, suggestions and subscriptions all very welcome. Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr_zw4hK5YIIcE59-iymfxg Connect here: https://twitter.com/AMGREDFOXWOOD And here: https://www.facebook.com/redfoxwood/ And here: https://www.instagram.com/mickgrewcock/ Music by Epidemic Sound