Yew shieldbow

The Yew longbow is a longbow stronger than the maple longbow that can use arrows up to rune. The yew longbow requires a Ranged level of 40 or higher to wield.

Members can make a yew longbow through the Fletching skill at level 70. First, a player must cut an unstrung yew longbow from yew logs, earning 75 Fletching experience. The unstrung bow is then strung with a bow string, for an additional 75 experience.

Money making
Yew longbows used to be one of the most popular items to cast the High Level Alchemy spell on (along with magic longbows) as players could earn gold while gaining magic experience. However, this is no longer the case and they are now unprofitable to alchemy for players who buy the materials to make the bow and the nature runes for the alchemy spell.

However, there is more profit in selling Nature Runes and Yew Bows separately, than with high-alch. At the time of writing (1st Aug 2010), the 180-day average price for Yew Longbows is around the 700gp and Nature Runes at 230gp-ish. Therefore its ultimately weighing up a players own value of acquiring income versus the magic experience from the high-alch spell.

The yew longbow is quite profitable to alchemise if the player is self-sufficient and can cut the Yew logs required for the bow and fletch the bow. While some players believe that the effort involved is too time-consuming, others believe it is time well spent, as valuable experience (woodcutting, fletching and magic experience) are gained at each step of the process, and the coins gained from alchemy are pure profit. A very common way to make good money is to buy nature runes and bowstrings, but cut and fletch the yew logs. Therefore considering the prices and how much you get from high alching yew longs, you can make about 200 coins per bow. However, if you do not have a good woodcutting level (75+), cutting yews will take a long time while buying takes seconds. Make sure to wield a Fire Staff for infinite fire runes.