Ozbow

I've been carrying the following newspaper snippet around in my wallet for years now - decades probably.
It's lasted surprisingly well for it's age.

Beautiful looking pieces mate.

I hope mine turns out half as good.

From "7 habits of highly effective pirates"

12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.

Ahh.

What a sweet looking lil fella.

Grats man.

Thanks everyone for your kind replies. What poundage are you going for? To be honest - whatever poundage it pulls when complete :) To say I'm aiming for a specific poundage implies that I know more about the craft than I do. You could try cutting laminations and tapering them before gluing up. This ...

So. That's the point I'm at now. Now - how to proceed? I have a few questions at this point. Finishing. Obviously it all needs a good sand to polish it off. However, the limbs. Would people recommend shaping them to a D cross section (flat back) or to an oval or leaving them flat? The riser. For a b...

Next I cut the limbs to a taper. Starting 190mm out from the center (25mm wide at that point) I tapered the width down to 15mm wide. Cut it roughly using a bandsaw (with lots of dust removal and breathing masks for extra safely) and sanded to the drawn line. From the same point I cut away at the bel...

Getting started: I sourced a few bamboo floorboards from Acers Timber Flooring in Slacks Creek (SE Queensland - South side of Brisbane). The owner was nice enough to sell me individual boards rather than full packs and they only cost about $10 each. These are vertical bamboo floorboards. Made up fro...

Heya. I was an avid (but totally raw) archer as a young kid (It wasn't till years later that I realised I had been stringing my recurve backwards). Fast forward to a mates 40th birthday party where, in our cups we reminisced over the target shooting we used to do (.22 rifles mainly). I mentioned tha...

Thanks for that link. A valuable addition to my collection of how-tos.

My most profound thanks for posting this.

Loved every word and picture.

Cheers.