It is possible to get a flat stick-and-string, but “modern” longbows are likely to have varying degrees of reflex/deflex in the limbs, and those limbs will be trapped. The advances in geometry ...

It is possible to get a flat stick-and-string, but “modern” longbows are likely to have varying degrees of reflex/deflex (see below) in the limbs, and those limbs will be trapped. The advances in ...