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Bonjour membres

Je suis un archer et facteur des arcs anglais, qui a démenagé en la France. (Et qui parle la francais tres mal!).

Je connais les vendeurs de bois pour faire les longbows anglais en angleterre, mais est ce que il y a des fournisseurs en France?

Qu'est ce que le mot en francais pour 'bow stave', 'billet' etc?

Je cherche les bois tropicaux (lemonwood etc), frene, orme et l'if, manifestement.

Merci

John Minnitt

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Hi, there's no such thing as an archery wood specialised dealer in France. you'll have to visit your local wood dealer or wood mills. Lemonwod and hickory are quite rare in France nut you should be able to find some ipe quite easily; If you want some yew of some elm, you'll have to harvest it by yourself....

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Qu'est ce que le mot en francais pour 'bow stave', 'billet' etc?

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Translation attempt of some wood bowyery words that could be useful :

Bow stave : billette (for bowyers) = chevron (for millers and common woodworkers).

Billet = demi-billette ? I don't think there is a specific french word for it.

Quarter sawn, edge-ringed wood = bois débité sur quartier

Bias-ringed = bois débité sur faux-quartier

Decrowned, flat-ringed board = bois débité sur dosse.

Feel free to ask for more.

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Merci to all responses.

What would I search for to look for a good general timber supplier, I google 'vendeur de bois' or similar and only get bois de chauffage?

Thanks again

it seems that "to Google" is now offically in the dictionnary? :shifty:

perhaps you can try "scieries" = sawmill?

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perhaps you can try "scieries" = sawmill?

+1

Sawmills can easily provide boards from ash that can give you several ELB staves if properly selected.

You could ask to see some mid-log boards = "le plateau du milieu de la bille".

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Merci de touts les conseils. J'ai regarde les sites web des scieries, et je chercherai du frene.

Un question pour Corbeau, s'il vous plait, 'back' and 'belly' de l'arc sont dos et ventre?

Merci encore

John M

oui...........dos et ventre

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