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i got the hickory from monaro timber (they have moved) ok here are some pics, i really like this 1, its hickory backed, spotty core, boo belly 72" long and draws 50lbs at 29"

damn 7" brace, the poor thing would look half drawn, get a bracer a thick sexy 1 and put ur name right on there to stop people stealing it cause it sounds like u need it

ok guys im putting the finish etc on today i tillered it up yesterday its 50# @ 29" and took about 3 hours to tiller, and from the shots ive taken with it so far....i dont want to give it a way!!

i recon love a good problem, with pics and ideas to fix it, but i would guess so far that the lams are not even i.e one side is thicker than the other (no 1 make a taper joke) or the nocks arnt quite right

yes indeed, if its good enough for skittles its delicious enough for me!! il try when i can

hmmm should go some where nice, canberra for example

hehe aww coach you got yourself so worked up on the other forum are you an ABA member, no then stuffem, but fair chaise is importtant and it depends where you persoanly have to draw the line as long as your opperatingf under the law and your own sence of honnor,bunnis acctuly NEED to be thined out, ...

yeah i was thinking i would make the shellac/metho as usual then reduce the metho as per the paste wax finish...prolly wouldnt work

it would be a awsome to get togeather and do something like that, pddcr i wouldnt send you a slugish bow, i give those away every now and then, the reason i started this thread was because i like the idea of trading bows between each other so once you get used to shooting the bow and really get to k...

if you want 100% trad an unbacked bow is the way to go, a backed bow is equily valid but not a timber backing it would have to be sinew (which is hard to come by if you not a hunter)

well as i got to ripping up the board i noticed that the grain isnt the best in this hickory, since it was a rough sawn slab at the shop i couldnt tell you see but i think it will work out

damn shame, if you have the TBB series read up on working knots as they are a weak aria and need special attention, also as jeff said if you can get a mature tree as: a. provides more staves b. the backs will be flater (safer) c. gives you more wriggle room when following the grain (i.e. snakes, kno...

good to know your interested mate, let me know when u feel confidant and we will set up a starting date

i have noticed that most people are using broad head on bunnies, why is that i always thought blunts where the way to go with em. esspecialy since your likely to hit rocks, trees etc wouldnt blunts last longer?

keep in mind i dont hunt i was just wondering.

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i have just started a new bow we have a hickory back,(extreemly dark) spotted gum core and boo belly, this one is for a friend who i made a bow for a few months back it, it shot strong for that time but one cold morning we where shooting and the blackbutt back gave out (thats what i get for experime...

be sure to post you sucsesses and learn from your failures, then again theres nothing better than making something odd every now and then

yeah not very nice at all, its a national icon and we all grew up watching skippy, theres something wrong with u if you want to go around killing tv caricters of the past. but they are delicious but its wrong...

haha yeah, remember a while back i tryed that, tuff but ALOT of work. oh i got a new bow on the way ill show pics soon, hickory, spotty and boo cant do better than that

Happy birthday!! well i would say MORE POWER, bigger the better! at carbatec in canberra they had a nice few as well as surface planers...oh and a maby 1.5m long and say..20 cm wide sanding belt!!!!! i want it and the beltsander 2!

yeah is very stiff per its mass i have used it in a few bows as both power lams, and full length cores. i however dont know if i would trust it as a back or belly, i havent tested it in either capacity but its price tag limits much experimentation on my buget, you know. it is a beautifull timber to ...

thats what im thinking, there are soooo many timbers out there i was even thinking about blackwood as a shaft as its light in mass but siff as (hence y i like it in core lams) and it would make 1 of the best looking arrows out there, depending on the specs that the shaft came out at

ichibums?? thats like my name! besides that after i had my first longbow made for me (boo backed iron bark, 49lbs @ 29") i went down to the local club, and said where can i shoot?? the guy very quickly pointed to the SCA archers and i have been shooting with the SCA since then, i also won my fi...

i havent found that loose nocks cause poor arrow flight, i shoot self nocks cut in the same way as "speed nocks" i think it must depend on how you hold the nock to the string?

haha it makes me think that if a holmgaard and a yumi had a baby , that is what it would look like!

looks like you have found a nice bow wood there, it also looks like the string will slip of b4 the bow breaks, and thats a credit to the timber and your tillering. may i surgest that since the bow is fairly short, once the bow has taken the most set you would allow, stop tillering there as the bow i...

guys did u know there is shellac in skittles????? anyway do you guys think that i could make a spirrit/shellac finish then reduce the metho as b4 into the wax and oil????

otis,
i started a thread about a bow finnish recipe, check it out, its all linseed oil, wax, and metho


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hmmmm gets you thinking dosent it, i have to say making my own arrows split timber shafts is on my list but since im starting a new job i wont get a chance for a while.... at any rate has any1 tryed making shafts from some of the more common aussie woods i mean...we have cedar, anw with blackwood fo...

hmmm i for get where i read it but i think i may have been sam harper (sorry really cant remember) who has used plaster board tape, and covered it in glue which seemed to work a treat.

using boo shafts is basicly the same as timber, i personaly always use the lager end for the pile (as obviously boo grows with a slight taper) and use a forshaft whos length depends on the application for the arrow, its also worth mentioning that if nocks are to be cut into the boo itself then they ...