"And now for something completely different ..." - Monty Python, MrCrispin

The smell in that wood shop must be delightful

I was said student and it was a pleasure to be part of the video.

Really great teaching and workmanship there. The carved warrior head was a really beautiful touch. And I raise a glass to your late friend Mr Derrick Conway. Long may his memory live on!

Fond memories of the green Hazel bows my Grandfather and I made every summer. Bledlow village was safe from the French until school started again in September.

@johnrhodes3350

Жыл бұрын

What a fantastic memory

What a delightful video, and a super team of instructors and students!

Well, you have done it again Crispin! You have somehow taken something that is totally foreign to me and made it fascinating! A superb video as always - thank you !

Really enjoyed that mr crispin fantastic insight into bow making thanks

I haven’t seen Cascamite glue since I helped my father mix it up from powder with water as a boy. I will be sixty next year. Thank you for the memory!😊

@russelldold4827

Жыл бұрын

I had a disappointing experience using Cascamite for building a dinghy as a schoolboy 60-odd years ago. I don't know what went wrong but I suspect the dry climate of South Africa may have had something to do with it since the glued joints suffered brittle failure.

"Careful you'll have someones eye out with that!" King Harold 1066

As a professional engineer who makes furniture for fun, this a lovely inspiration for something new to try:) thanks

Fun Video! I watch your channel for your machining work but I didn't know you loved archery too. I have been shooting for years and woodworking on and off since my middle school days. In just this past year have taken up the goal to learn to make my own bow. I have made one which I have successfully shot but was under-powered. my second bow was coming along nicely before it broke on me during tillering and testing. It was great to see how the club in your video teaches the crafting techniques. I hope to complete my next bow soon.

Hey mate! Hope everything is alright! Keep the videos coming!

Very interesting! Longbows are very scarce here in South Africa, so I really enjoyed watching the process. The bows we made as boys were a lot more crude, basically just a single piece of Rasinbush, and all the shapong was done with a pocketknife. We made our strings from animal sinew though, and that was almost as laborious a process as making the bow. First you had to kill the animal, and that without a bow. After finding and cutting out the sinew, we boiled it to get it to seperate into strings, then clean them thoroughly before plaiting them. However those strings lasted many years of boyhood practice and mischeif. Thanks for bringing back the memories Mr!

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Wow that sounds quite a process

That was very interesting. I have been interested in archery. Brilliant.

As much as I love the bow calculator, the nifty tools, and the gorgeous woods, my favorite part is listening to your wonderful English, Mr. Crispin...I don't hear it where I am from.

Fascinating! I went to a castle some years ago where there were some demonstrations of medieval English archery. After the demonstrations, I asked them about the longbows and what they would have been made of. The bloke doing the demos reckoned that the stave of the bow would have been made from yew (for its flexibility), and ash (for its strength), although I'm not sure how they would have been bonded. The string would have been made from willow I assume as it has long and strong floppy branches. Not sure how true it was, but he also told me that this was the reason why church yards always had yew trees in them so that could be easily farmed for their branches.

@samrodian919

Жыл бұрын

I think the string was made from Flax. And I'm not sure about the medieval period but most war bows were purely made from Yew using both the sapwood and the heartwood. As that time a great deal of Yew was imported from Italy as it was supposed to be better than English Yew. Those were the type of many bow staves that were brought up with Henry the Eighth's Mary Rose from the Solent back in the 1980's. You can see many examples at the Naval Dockyard Museum at Portsmouth.

Archery is a Nice sport 40 years ago half of our family was shooting competition weekly No Some nephews are shooting

Good evening (2159 here in Australia) Sir, Just a quick check in to see that all is good in your world. Look forward to your next video. 👍🇦🇺

What a great idea. Thank you, sir.

Brilliant. What a fantastic way to get out of the workshop. I really enjoyed this little out of the shop video.

greetings to everyone. i love this.😃

Very interesting , nice to see people making their own equipment.

So very interesting. Thanks for making this.

Far out that’s a long way from me with a green branch and string.😊

Absolutely Fascinating 👍👍😎👍👍

Fantastic! Nice to get out of the workshop once in while. Excellent instructors and a blast to watch. The comments are nearly as fun as the video. Very enjoyable to read about all the past experiences folks have with archery.

Hello Crispin, enjoyed the video. I too am a engineer, started in my father's factory at the age of 7. Health and safety, Hmmm. I also do archery, have done for many years, not only target shooting but making them as well. My heart was overjoyed to see the art of engineer tea drinking isn't dead. Carn't beat a cold cup of tea, but now I'm in my 60's I've installed a microwave in the workshop to keep the tea hot. Keep up with the archery, nice to see we've got something in common.

What great episode!!!👍😀

Very interesting topic. Thanks for posting.

So something totally different and very enjoyable Thank you

Well, did a course some years back to teach Archery and enjoyed teaching young people in the use of. Didn’t know how they were built up though. Thats another string in my bow. Excellent video Mr Crispin and all the cast. Many thanks for sharing. Till the next one, stay well.

Of course Mr Crispin is an Archer, and has awesome friends like Andy and Mel who are beautiful craftsmen, love the content and appreciate the hard work

Mr C, they used to have archery practice next to the main office at RR Hucknall. I can remember being stuck in a rather boring meeting and looking at them practicing their archery skills.

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this one, very well presented. Big thanks to Andy and Mel for showing us all the details. Well done!! Good luck from Spain!!

Great video fantastic team of instructor's well done for putting up something so different on your channel

You are multi talented. A new facet to you. Thanks for making this video. If my shoulder will let me I need to get to my local range and try to shoot again.

This was great ! thanks

This was an interesting insight into modern longbow manufacture, with its odd mixing of English and Japanese woods and hand-tools.

Hope all is well sir. Was watching another channel and they mentioned your name and just thought i would stop by and see how you were. Are you still working on the locomotive?? Hope to see some new content soon! Cheers!!

A very interesting departure from the machining content that is typical of your channel. Attention to the nuance of how these are built is right in line with your presentation style and I enjoyed it immensely. A nice peak into the other parts of your interest portfolio. Thank you for sharing with us.

Good day Mr. Crispin!

Excellent. Now we’ll all be ready to take part in the Agincourt rematch.

That opening clip made me chuckle 🤣🤣🤣 Great work Mr C 👍

Great.... now i have to look into a class here in the states

I’ve been watching you machine and never realised you are a fellow archer.

I just spent one hour of my life watching this whole video. I'm a new subscriber. I don't know man, there is something about Mr. Crispin that just draws you in...

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Glad to have you watching

@joecolanjr.8149

Жыл бұрын

We really need a new video!!! Hint...hint...

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Ah right yes ok good idea I hadn't thought of that. I'll put a new one out on Tuesday for you.

That was an unexpected treat. I used to shoot. Set up an archery club at uni and had an instructor from Overdale Bolton. Couldn't draw a longbow though too heavy. Still have my old yamaha somewhere.

Very interesting and very educational. Beautifully presented video. Thanks very much, Mr. C.

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

When you threw your hat, I somehow was expecting it to land in your workshop on one of your machines, or on the head of Jefferson😅 And as always thanks for another very interested video!

That Sir is probably the best piece of KZread i have ever watched. Hats off to you (pun intended) congratulations.

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

High praise!

Way cool !!

Amazing bro

Love the humour. Almost as dry as in my video

Blimey, what a workout the bed was getting at 52 :30

brilliant! next, come visit Texas and ill teach you how to hand forge some bodkin and swallowtail arrowheads. :) ( cant blame a fella for tryin )

Muy buen trabajo de enseñanza y muy bonitos arco, mi enhorabuena

In your opening scene I almost expected to see the butler holding the target up.

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Don't give me ideas, Jefferson won't thank you!

@ianbertenshaw4350

Жыл бұрын

Thats a classic 🤣🤣

@ianbertenshaw4350

Жыл бұрын

@@MrCrispinEnterprises He owes you one after you got the hat out of the tree for him 🤣

I now know what a knocking shop is. It is where you add knocks to a longbow.

hope you dont get an allergic reaction to that funny coloured metal mr crispin!, shot longbows myself, not as easy as you'd think, nice to see the tradition kept up.

Excellent video. That process was big industry 700/800 years ago. All ye named Fletcher,Bowman, Archer, Arrowsmith or whatever can attest to that,

Oh **** I may well have competed against you, I started shooting 22 years ago (recurve) until about 6 years ago (kids). I used to compete rather a lot including shooting for Warwickshire and I have a couple of good friends who shoot at Anchor Bowmen... Also nice technique :) Funnily enough my main hobby is fine woodworking and making a longbow is on my list of things to do so this'll be a useful video!

Coming up: Violin making, followed by Church Organ building? Joking aside, I found this fascinating!

Now that MrCrispin was very interesting to watch 😁👍👍 , do you have any plans to do more future videos on this ?

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. This was just a one off

@100yojimbo

Жыл бұрын

@@MrCrispinEnterprises Your welcome, that's a shame really enjoyed watching the video.

Nice video. Although I seem to remember something about a locomotive that was being built. 🤔

Something different, very interesting. Arrow making in the future maybe?

Very different to your usual videos... and very interesting! As a former hobbyist woodturner of 25+ years ( I now turn steel into chips!) the wood selection seemed somewhat surprprising. I thought you'd be using some fine English yew rather than exotics.

I have an old 90lb long bow and that thing is a bear to pull!

👏👏👏👏

I would blue that stave to measure the cup fit 😁

Another fine (but unexpected) video Mr. Crispin! If my history is correct the English longbow is a key reason you folks north of the Channel don't speak French as your first language. I enjoyed my days in target archery (compound bows) but haven't participated in nearly thirty years.

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Yes the Longbow played a vital role in resisting the aggressor down the ages.

Oh you toxophyle you. Lovely!

Thank you for this interesting and well presented feature! The audio was perhaps not as finely crafted as your metalwork, but headphones helped and nothing was lost. Like a Meister you have the sitting, drinking tea, watching with half an eye down pat - but you can’t fool us, there was enough footage of you giving a hand - you are a good man :)

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Yes audio was a challenge. I have never tried filming in a group workshop environment before. Glad the headphones helped.

Good ☹🇬🇧

The arrows are next? really enjoyable video!

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Yes I might do one on the arrow making course later in the year perhaps

@garden4wildlife781

Жыл бұрын

@@MrCrispinEnterprises Please do! Really enjoyed this video.

⭐🙂👍

A longbow for Longshanks, as it were. :)

Thats very interesting, did'nt know we share the same archery interests! Forget about all that engineering malarky, lets go shoot some arrows! or playing archery as my wife calls it.

Just wondering if it's possible to get yew wood suitable for longbow these days?

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely no idea but I can't see why not

JRR Tolkien's Numenorean Men used hollow core (tube) steel long bows; presumably some kind of spring(y) steel.

@russelldold4827

Жыл бұрын

Titanium has great potential as a bow material, until one considers cost and difficulty of working by amateur methods.

@steveallarton98

Жыл бұрын

Back in the day, over half a century ago, when I started my apprenticeship with a steel tube making company, they had a sporting goods division, which made tubular bows. If I recall correctly, they were made from a chrome-molybdenum steel, heat treated to give the necessary strength and flexibility. The tubes were made with variable wall thickness, and thus stiffness, to give the correct curvature, when the bow was drawn.

Thought that longbows were usually made from yew.

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

I think the phrase you might be looking for is 'traditionally'.

@UncleKennysPlace

Жыл бұрын

Osage, in my neck of the woods.

@glennwright9747

Жыл бұрын

Far more sophisticated than the bows I made as a lad from a sapling!

@tiredoldmechanic1791

Жыл бұрын

@@MrCrispinEnterprises If they aren't using longbows to follow tradition, why use them at all?

@kevinwillis6707

Жыл бұрын

@@tiredoldmechanic1791 basically lack of suitable material, even in medieval times lots of yew was imported from italy, very expensive and hard to get nowadays, and a totally yew bow, or a "self bow" takes a lot more skill to make , you have to allow for small knots and imperfections in the stave. these are easier for begginners to start on and lemonwood is very consistent in grain. like anything it takes lots and lots of skill and experience to do well.

I was sure that first arrow was going to end up in your hat!

Are you using Dacron for the strings? Noticed no one from the dark side shooting at the club😱. When do you start your course? 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

It's BCY B55 Polyester. I think i put the exact material on a pop up box during the sting making process.

@alasdairhamilton1574

Жыл бұрын

@@MrCrispinEnterprises BCY B55 is commonly known as Dacron. Helical Fletching next video? Happy shooting

Too smooth to glue is a myth! There have been quite a few A/B tests done and there is no difference between smooth and rough sanded. I may sand to remove planer marks or contamination from the planer deck but it's not necessary for glue.

jolly good crisper!! tally ho

I have always followed mums advice...."Don't jerk it"!

@BillySugger1965

Жыл бұрын

That’s not what I’ve been told 😉😋

@tiredoldmechanic1791

Жыл бұрын

I never managed that!

@markrainford1219

Жыл бұрын

"It's mine and I'll wash it as fast as I want."

Needs a dial indicator... somewhere... I'm sure of it!

I thought longbows were made of yew or ash wood?

Message for you sir...

Guys headphone warning on the bandsaw. Holy shit that's loud

I guess I could take an abundant stave of ash, dry it out and carve a flat-bow out of it, just like in the Viking-age. Yew exists, but are mostly not available in Sweden, because of their toxicity to horses and cattle, historically :)

Preparing the string was very interesting. Audio is terrible.

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Class room environment

Nothing worse than spending a few days shaping the bow for a hidden weakness in the wood to break whilst tilling.

Tilloer is incorrect for a longbow. Too round in the middle and too much mid limb bend, not enough mid to outer limb. Use a more elliptical tiller. You can get better efficiency eg. arrow speed.

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your expertise.

that is not how a longbow is made, a longbow is made from ash, using the softwood for compression, and the harder wood for tension, it's not made from several different woods

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

If it's not a Longbow, then what is the type of bow shown in this video?

I hate woodwork. Mr Crispin. Make one out spring steel with a wooden handle

Have you abandoned your steam locomotive?

@MrCrispinEnterprises

Жыл бұрын

No

@pmaitrasm

Жыл бұрын

@@MrCrispinEnterprises, 👍

The best longbowmen were of course, not English but Welsh

Yew didn't make it out of You.

Mr Crispin, as an ex archery instructor before ravages of failing eyesight and mobility issues this was good to follow the course; like you I was a strictly target archer using a hoyt pro gold medalist. Interesting toxopholist facts: ➀ legend has it there used to be Yew trees planted in graveyards as a 'hidden' source of bow making material in the odd chance 'them dam froggies' decided to invade: ➁ V sign was a taunt to show that you had your draw fingers intact and ➂ that it was still law that every able bodied man must shoot a dozen arrows after church on Sundays..just in case.