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- Tue Feb 02, 2016 11:04 am
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: New stave for self bow
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7677
Re: New stave for self bow
Yep, that one turned out lovely.
- Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:06 am
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: 1hr Cypress Boardbow
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7066
Re: 1hr Cypress Boardbow
The cypress is a really attractive wood up close. Do you reckon you could get a 40-50lber unbacked?
- Thu Dec 24, 2015 9:50 am
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Banksia bow failure
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5354
Re: Banksia bow failure
How wide was the arrow pass? It looks way too narrow especially for the strength of the bow.
- Mon Nov 30, 2015 2:03 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Log Splitting Advice Sought
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4089
Re: Log Splitting Advice Sought
Good news. Any pic's? I love a good splitting(especially when someone else is wielding the sledge).
- Mon Nov 23, 2015 9:43 am
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Log Splitting Advice Sought
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4089
Re: Log Splitting Advice Sought
From what I can see in the photo's I would concentrate on the clear midsection, and avoid the base, and the fork. Try for the cleanest, straightest section 42" long. That way you will get some decent billets, rather than marginal wood that may or may not make a full length bow of sorts. Victori...
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 9:57 am
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Its not what it looks like!!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3918
Re: Its not what it looks like!!
Another fine effort Colin. I bet it is has pretty good cast for its draw weight, with its low stringfollow.
- Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:46 am
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Lemonwood stability
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4472
Re: Lemonwood stability
Yep, Had the same trouble with lemonwood. I pretty much do what Darryl does. Any of these dense tropical timbers especially in thick sections, and have been kiln dried can hold a lot of stresses, or have a difference in moisture content from the inside of the board compared with the outside. I had t...
- Mon Oct 26, 2015 10:38 am
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Latest installment in my learning curve
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3037
Re: Latest installment in my learning curve
That turned out pretty well. 1 &1/8" pretty narrow for oak, did it take much set?
- Thu Oct 22, 2015 5:32 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Started a light one today... 130lb warbow!!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7696
Re: Started a light one today... 130lb warbow!!
Hi Colin, Are you going to get pic's of the bow all polished up, before it goes off to its new owner?
- Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:29 am
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Started a light one today... 130lb warbow!!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7696
Re: Started a light one today... 130lb warbow!!
Nice work. Holy crap that was a fast tiller. I guess with a bow that big you mainly have to work on the form and not worry about reducing weight much if any?
How thick was the ipe ?
Sounds like the shoulder is healing well?
Hamish.
How thick was the ipe ?
Sounds like the shoulder is healing well?
Hamish.
- Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:07 am
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Black Palm Raptor
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5686
Re: Black Palm Raptor
Looks awesome!
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 4:30 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Bang goes the weasel.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4259
Re: Bang goes the weasel.
Yeah it is hard to know what the cause is. Many years ago I had a board stave of tropical timber Pernambuco. It was fairly close to completion, I left it in the hotbox for a couple of days, probably 40-50degrees. When I came back, I took it out, let it come back to room temp. I strung it up and the ...
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:26 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Bang goes the weasel.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4259
Re: Bang goes the weasel.
I reckon it might have something to do with the 2 hr cooking to cure the glue up, without allowing the wood to re hydrate. What temp did you have the hot box on? The quick turn around that fibre glass guys do, cutting out and tillering a blank once it has cooled down from the hot box is doable becau...
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:14 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: First successful rekerf
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3073
Re: First successful rekerf
Have to agree with the other guys, that is a nice looking bow, and looks like it would be great to shoot.
Lovely work.
Lovely work.
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:05 am
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Reducing bow poundage
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2787
Re: Reducing bow poundage
You are better off getting some new materials and starting a fresh. 60" 70lbs in that design is pretty stressed if its for a 28" draw. Add to that the uncompensated for cluster of knots, in the working area of the limb, its unlikely you will remove the chrysal even if you compensate for th...
- Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:26 am
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Out of action for a while...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2885
Re: Out of action for a while...
Don't jump straight back into the heavy bows, ease your way back into it. I don't want you turning into a sad **** cripple like myself.
- Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:43 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Cutting Elm?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2248
Re: Cutting Elm?
Haven't split any elm myself but pretty much agree with the other guys, that it should split as long as the tree has grown straight and has straight grain. What a lot of the Americans do with elm is cut a kerf either with a chain saw, or with multiple passes with a hand held circular saw( you need t...
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 6:46 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: other locally commercially or otherwise available timbers?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2310
Re: other locally commercially or otherwise available timber
Sheoak would be the one I would have a go with from your list. A few Americans have tried it and liked it. They call it "Australian Pine" because of the leaves that look a bit like pine needles. A lot of it was planted in Florida and Hawaii.
- Tue Aug 25, 2015 6:42 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: GST
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5696
Re: GST
I'd like to see how much it actually costs for the govt to collect the GST, on goods worth less than $1000. From memory goods for over $1000 you have to pay GST and also extra $40-100 to submit the paperwork to actually pay. For every purchase of $20, or more by post its going to cost a $1 or so to ...
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:25 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Making a Heavy Whitewood Longbow by Jaro Petrina
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1486
Re: Making a Heavy Whitewood Longbow by Jaro Petrina
Another good link Daryl. I haven't seen Jaro around on the sites for a couple of years. He is a really talented bowyer, one of the first to do heavy warbows successfully from whitewoods.
Hamish.
Hamish.
- Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:17 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Cutting Hickory Laminations by Bickerstaffe Bows.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2546
Re: Cutting Hickory Laminations by Bickerstaffe Bows.
Thanks for posting that link Daryl, I also the viewed the others in the series too. Interesting to see how a production bowyer/company does things. He had a good tablesaw with a long sliding table. I guess it makes it pretty quick to saw up backings but I bet he didn't have a blade less than 1/8&quo...
- Fri Jul 31, 2015 12:14 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Broke all the rules in the book on this one!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3362
Re: Broke all the rules in the book on this one!!
It is a good result, and sounds like you instinctively came to the best solution for that stave. It is surprising how much a back can tolerate if done properly or you are just lucky, especially in certain woods. I have seen a pecan back violated with very rough drawknife gouges that scare the crap o...
- Thu Jul 30, 2015 5:17 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Broke all the rules in the book on this one!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3362
Re: Broke all the rules in the book on this one!!
Nice result. Sounds like when getting rid of the worm tracks you decrowned it(at least in that section).
Not really much of a problem in most bow woods, especially in a diffuse porous timber.
Hamish.
Not really much of a problem in most bow woods, especially in a diffuse porous timber.
Hamish.
- Tue Jul 21, 2015 4:04 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Apollo Merlin Steel Takedown Bow
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3264
Re: Apollo Merlin Steel Takedown Bow
I have a couple of steel bows. I found that you need very small loops for the string, otherwise the limbs can flip back into reflex when the arrow gets shot. They shoot okay, but I much prefer wooden bows, the cast is better. I was warned not to shoot them as they eventually break due to work harden...
- Mon Jun 29, 2015 12:01 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: "Not so Red" Ash ELB
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4073
Re: "Not so Red" Ash ELB
Cool. Nice work as usual Colin.
Hamish
Hamish
- Thu Jun 11, 2015 1:10 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Chinese Elm goes ok!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5616
Re: Chinese Elm goes ok!
Very nice. I haven't used elm before but if you aren't happy with the set a lot of Nth Hemisphere bowyers will heat treat a little reflex(even in an already tillered bow with too much set). I have had friends do the same with osage, and it turns an average bow into a good one. Hamish.
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:44 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Celery Top Pine
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11087
Re: Celery Top Pine
Yeah, a thin backing is probably the best idea with hickory. If you can get a good tiller before taxing it too much hopefully you can avoid chrysals. Mine did'nt have any obvious weakspots, but it had a high stacked belly. I'd definitely try it again, with a flat belly but the stuff is so pricey the...
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 12:40 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Celery Top Pine
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11087
Re: Celery Top Pine
I wouldn't rate it anywhere near yew in terms of performance and versatility of design, but I can see a nice flatbow coming from the stuff. Its similar to yew in the sense its a softwood, but also usually very fine grained and slow growing, which makes it relatively quite hard and dense for a softwo...
- Fri May 29, 2015 10:23 am
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Celery Top Pine
- Replies: 27
- Views: 11087
Re: Celery Top Pine
I made a bow from celery top, it was English in design, stiff handle 1&1/8"wide, 74" long. An English gentleman, living in Tasmania had some successes with it, though he did say it could chrysal. Mine was very straight grained so it didn't need backing, but it did get some chrysals. De...
- Mon May 04, 2015 2:31 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Splitting Osage
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1738
Re: Splitting Osage
Splitting is great when it works, but it can be a good way to wreck a good bow stave. For those that don't have experience I recommend plenty of practice with a non bow quality timber(not osage).