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hey guys long time no chat, i thought id let every 1 know whats going on with me. its all very exciting, im in the process of buying my first house as a result i have had no time for anything really....lame but the house is nice. at any rate one thing i do love about the house is the twin car Deeeee...

it really depends on the size of the group i think, theres no reason you couldnt with enough supervision. but it would have to be something super simple, you would prolly have to tiller them 9/10th of the way and just let em finish sand them.

ah i see, sorry misunderstood. have you been able to find any info about koreans using bows in warfair? i know they pride themselves on there arechery prowess but..i havent found good infomation about the tackle. one of there small curly bows would be an effort to maintain huh?? bet she would go out...

i havent been able to find any proof that the smaller korean composists where used in warfair due to there stability issues as well as there dificulty stringing, the smaller ones as shown in the above pictures are sport bows

they look very nice, what are the timber combinations available, do they come any shorter since 80" is over kill for a 50lb at 28"? very pritty though...

hmm i wouldnt try it personaly.... unless you hate the bow? if its a long bow (i.e no recurve, no deflex no reflex) then it might be possable but still a very scary thought.... all i can think is twice the width = twice as strong if it was going to be done that would be the way but everything would ...

cheers mate it feels bloody good to get back to building bows

its a recurve or deflex reflex whatever......... plain and simple any1 who argues otherwise isnt being honest with themselves, to me a long bow devision is important because some of us who shoot longbows are doing what our accestors did centurys ago and trying to pass that thing (cool as it is) is d...

well here we go again guys, yesterday i started on my first bow in ages, its a hickory self bow 72" tip to tip in a design thats no quite english.... but its also not that common with indian design eather...... basicly 1" wide at the grip for 4" then flairs out over an inch to 1 1/8 t...

haha nope no family business im still just a payroll number to head office.... but on the brightside i do have someone above me in the store, unfortunately he has been in the company 2 months so my 6 months experiance as a cashier makes me more equipt to run a 3 million doller store apparently.... h...

yep starting to feel it a bit, recently i have been making over $1000 per week dosent sound like a lot to you public servants im sure but when your on $17 per hour the hours really rack up....

hey all im sorry i havent been around lately and im esspecialy sorry to jeff, i have been bogged down in running a store with 0 experiance.

sorry again guys.

yep i use a heat gun and since my boo bows are laminated the back isnt an issue but it dose seem to reduce set. bunnings is where i get my boo sold as screening for $8 you get enough for 2 backed bows or 4 bellys if your cairfull

awsome thanks for that guys

Jaydo,
is it just me or is it strange that we both live in canberra and havent been for a shoot yet?
we could get LP in on it to and go roving
cheers,
Dave

i agree talk to gavin, if during ur travel u come across a samik skb get the owner to check the draw weight i have a 60 lb model which is acctuly 45lb.... i have no idea what those guys are doing.......

when u cut inner tubes do u cut them straight or do u cut them as though they where spiraling around a central axis??

well since u live in a wet aria i would recomend oiling the entire shaft then sealing it with polyurathane the polyurathane can be glued to and the oil just provides a bit more moisture protection. i would bind the feathers as well, since u live remote i think reliability would be no 1

that one dose seem darker but i thought it was the finish, i have been tempering boo from bunnings which unfortunately is caramelised but retempering and alowing it to rehydrate seemed to help in my last few tests, still i personaly dont like the boo board self bows as i have never seen one perform ...

sugoio, kore wa boku no ichiban ga suki desu! any way nice one how much reflex is in there?? have you determined they type of yumi it is? ihave a book about the yumis and its a good read but it focuses more on kyudo as a sport and its traditions

u know you think it would but no the glue used in the boo lamination process holds up to the heat well, the only thing is that you need to leave it about a week after the tempering to alow it to back to equilibruim. and if you ante to a reflex while temepering would be the time to do it

will do ill post a bunch of pics 2

no probs LP, after a 2 hours of cairful scraping the beast will bend a total of 2", im gonna be super cairful wit this 1

with out tools its a bit tricky mate but i would say that a prolly a piramid bow or a flat bow thats 1.75" wider for most its length is the way to go, i also recently discoverd that temepring bamboo may also aid in its tensile strength as yesterday i was playing silly bugers ith the band say an...

and illpost results so y guys can learn that it was prolly a bad idea

i know gery beard did an awsome job of a boo backed boo horsebow, but i got to thinking, would it work if the back was hickory and the bely as of vertcal grain boo?? im not thinking about the tip touching reflex horse bows more along the shape of a samick SKB?? but possibly with sayahs? tell me what...

well if you guys have one or two that have been tanned etc i would be happy to get some pm me with price

sorry silly question but why do your feathers have to be white? i know graham and i have been through this b4, if you looks at some perioud art you will see that not all are, alot are 2 white hen and a black cock, some even have red spliced sections

its just a blank ATM no one wants to see pics of that but i sdded the hndle lam which is of canberra grown elm heartwood, complememnets the jarrah well. once i get in to working it ill put up some pics

well guys i just got my new bow out of the form, to whet your apitite i thought i would tell u a little about it hickory back(1 peice this time, those splices gave me nothing but trouble) 2 tapererd core lams 1 core lam of danish beech and a belly of tepered boo, cant wate to have this one shooting.