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Notice that with the English Longbow, less wood is wasted. It's supposedly also faster to make ELB's than flat bows, because you're just
taking wood off the edges. That allowed bowyers to crank out bows in a shorter amount of time.
The only problem with this design is that it puts a lot of stress on the belly of the bow. You see, with a regular flat bow, the compression
forces are distributed along the whole width of the bow, but with the ELB, the compression is concentrated at the crown of the D on the
belly.
There are a couple of ways the English dealt with this problem. First, they made their bows longer than usual--at least the height of the
archer if not longer. That way, the bow didn't have to bend quite as much for a given draw length. Second, they used Yew. Yew is
unusually strong in compression. Of course Yew isn't the only thing they used, but it was perferred.