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Lorim point reclaimer BWreclaim.jpg dozzer bogged in the embley river DozerBogged.jpg andoom plant with loco F1010022.JPG first ever shiplment of bauxite from weipa first ship.jpg east weipa dump bridge LP-0001.jpg making raft for the boat races at the lakes pic1a.jpg rocky point boat ramp. single p...

Evans landing industrial estate and single person quarters. stubby hut in there somewhere around top right. before your time i would suggest.

lowset houses of rocky point LowsetHouses.jpg the EW bene, stockpiles and shiploader LP-0014.jpg loading calcination LP-0017.jpg the main workshop LPworkshop.jpg old power house OldPowerStnl.jpg swimming at the lakes - lake Patricia swimmingLakePat.jpg lorim point rail dump under construction WpaRai...

just some old weipa pics i found. i have a hundred or so but just picked out a couple. there might be something here you remember. building the new andoom plant 169.jpg the loco bringing dirt to lorim point B0000418.jpg east weipa bene control BeneControl.jpg evans landing EL-0002.jpg Kids swimming ...

Thanks guys and no worries Jeff, it really wasn't as hard as i thought it would be. Just need to think through it and take your time.

Steve, after some clarification, no i do not hunt the hounds. They are lap dogs

Now, such a sharp blade can’t just be chucked into a toolbox or on a shelf with other things around it – both for personal safety and for the sake of the tool. So I thought it best to have a sheath or cover. I didn’t have any plain leather laying around, so I had to use some cow hide that had a croc...

I then used my soldering iron to burn bits and pieces back for an older and more authentic/used appearance. Back in Victoria I have a pyrography burner, which just looks like a soldering iron, but obviously it isn’t as after half an hour of burning wood my soldering iron burn out the element and is ...

There were a couple of points along the way that made me a little nervous, and this next one was one of them. I needed to take the straight handles with wood attached and bend them at right angles. This posed two problems – 1) I had to heat the handles to allow them to bend to right angle – which me...

When you are using a file the ‘filing’ stroke is when you push the file away from you, so with each stroke you are essentially pushing the handle on. With a draw knife the cutting strokes are when you are pulling the knife back to you, so essentially you are pulling the handles off. I didn’t want th...

As I said earlier the shape of the handle were to gain a little more length, however if I ever planned on getting my wooden handles on I needed to get these straight first. I used a couple of approaches to achieve this. 0050.JPG Firstly I placed the handle in the vice and applied heat from an $8 but...

Hi Guys, I have been without any real bow making tools in the past, and with the price of new and second hand draw knives I thought I would have a go at making one. I rarely allow myself the time to stop and take photos when I am busy making things, but this time I forced myself to get a snap here a...

Guy, how many bows do you have?

nice little hunt!

nice bent stick you have there Grahame.

bigbob wrote:Just for the record there are around 960 species of Acacia in Australia!!!

yep, that's not helping

thanks Daryl, i will take a look. i have noticed that it is quite prone to white ant infestation once it is down - i found a coulple of trees that had been down for about 6month that i was hoping would be half seasoned already, but the ants had made short work of it. i am also finding it quite diffi...

ha, thanks guys, i missed this one yesterday.

another year older!

Thanks Grahame, i am keen to continue building all woods at present, rather than compesites. preferably selfbows, and i would like to do a lot more with sticks/staves, as i don't enjoys the board bows as much, but i do not have access to great timber up here (that i have found). i will have a flick ...

doesnt float my boat this is how i felt about it too, but just thought it might be worth a look. there would have to be something worth reading in it, and many things i could learn i'm sure. i just saw on one of the other sites that you can download it as .PDF, so i might do that for one of them to...

Thanks Steve, that is one of 5 i narrowed it down to by looks and the one that looks most like it but the map i had didn't have it up this far. Acacia Leptocarpa is similar in looks but not quite as close as the Leptostachya, however it is found up here by my maps. it certainly looks a little more l...

Hi Guys, this particular tree grows to about 8m. it has multiple trunks in a shrub like manner (possibly understory or edging scrubland). the bark is brown and grey, quite rough and grooved, but fairly thin (not necessarily thin by wattle standards though) The sapwood is white, while the heartwood i...

hi Guys, just as the title says, i'm wondering if bowyers out there have read this and found it useful? Also, was volume 1 superceded by volume 2, and so on to volume 4. or are they all in addtion to the previous volumes? Are there other more useful readings to be had? looking in relation to stick b...

i would have to agree Grahame.

it's just how far the shelf is cut in.

longbow steve wrote:Do you reckon I will be safe camping in a mozzie dome? I am already having croc nightmares .

haha, you'll be fine, just don't sleep right next to the waters edge.

Morning Grahame, yes loverly country and the Saratoga are a beautiful and prehistoric fish. Hi Steve, this is a long way from the coast. much of the cape's coastline is inaccessible. this is about smack bang in the middle of the cape. So there are Snappy Lizards that far inland ? Oh yes, across the...

ha, you're not the first person to comment on the shirt colour Jeff. there is an extensive marshy swam land at the top of these billabongs, and while there is a bit of sign around, this particular are has too much water for me to bother hunting. i do hunt swamps here and there at times, but i genera...

Morning Grahame, yes loverly country and the Saratoga are a beautiful and prehistoric fish.

Hi Steve, this is a long way from the coast. much of the cape's coastline is inaccessible. this is about smack bang in the middle of the cape.

Hi Guys, hope you are all well, i realise it has been a while - somehow i got busy! thought i'd throw up a couple of picks from one of my favourite freshwater spots up here on the cape. enjoy, i did :biggrin: sorry about the picture size, i'm not sure how they will turn out. i'm having trouble worki...

inspiring!

wow, nice country that Clinton. Good going!