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- Sat May 27, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Site Announcements
- Topic: The future of Ozbow
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15284
Re: The future of Ozbow
I read some of the posts, but tend not to post. Basically I could live without it.
- Wed May 04, 2022 7:31 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Anyone tried a gasket dipped Massey finish?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4124
Re: Anyone tried a gasket dipped Massey finish?
Don't know about using a dip ghasket, but you've got to be quick using Massey finish. I wiped it on and only got one wipe in one direction before it got tacky.
- Wed Jun 29, 2016 7:34 pm
- Forum: Mastering the Traditional Bow
- Topic: Stu Miller Spine selection
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5059
Re: Stu Miller Spine selection
For me it worked well - spot on or maybe a little under spined. Depends how accurately you can measure the parameters of your bow.
- Sat Jun 06, 2015 7:21 pm
- Forum: Mastering the Traditional Bow
- Topic: How do you hang on to your bow
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7188
Re: How do you hang on to your bow
Depends on the bow. With two of my longbows I grip with all fingers firmly but without strangling. With the other two I grip with thumb and one finger, with the other fingers tucked to the side of the grip. Different bows prefer different grips.
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:30 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Ways to fund the running of Ozbow.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4398
Re: Ways to fund the running of Ozbow.
I'm with Daryl too. I'd rather make a voluntary contribution than buy something I don't need. The belt buckle was a god buy though.
- Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:57 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: ON FULL COMPASS BOWS
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3072
Re: ON FULL COMPASS BOWS
Minor point unrelated to bows - the trajectory is actually a parabola if you ignore air resistance. It gets a lot more complicated if you include air resistance.
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 6:25 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Lots of blood and a very sore hand.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3299
Re: Lots of blood and a very sore hand.
Hi mate, Aluminium and plastic are two of the hardest things to get to bond to each other. I use isopropyl alchohol from bunnings after a light sanding of the shaft and if i am using AAE fltches that have their own activator on them i clean that off with a cotton bud and acetone and then glue them ...
- Mon Jan 05, 2015 6:55 pm
- Forum: Mastering the Traditional Bow
- Topic: Are we fair dinkum???
- Replies: 27
- Views: 15637
Re: Are we fair dinkum???
Over the last few months I've been doing a lot of blank-bale work to improve my form for a couple of reasons:
1) the better my form, the better my accuracy. May not work for you, but it does for me.
2) not far to walk to collect my arrows!
1) the better my form, the better my accuracy. May not work for you, but it does for me.
2) not far to walk to collect my arrows!
- Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:23 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Canberra archery info?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1653
Re: Canberra archery info?
Tuggeranong is an AA club that shoots both Target and Field, but mainly Target. Steve is no longer the main contact but he'll be able to tell you who is. Their web site is: http://home.tuggeranongarchery.com/ If you're more interested in ABA than AA, then Capital Field Archers might suit you better....
- Tue Dec 02, 2014 6:22 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: correcting the tele
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3666
Re: correcting the tele
No never - we don't have a television. I do argue with the radio, and sometime even with the newspapers.
- Sat Nov 08, 2014 6:24 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Twisted footings "spiral footed arrows"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1934
Re: Twisted footings "spiral footed arrows"
Saw some many years ago made by a guy called Don Rust from Shellharbour area. Can't remember if he shot them, but they looked good.
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 6:52 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Yes, I Do Like Bamboo.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1943
Re: Yes, I Do Like Bamboo.
Nice bow, but I love the nocks. Glued on, or pinned and glued somehow?
- Wed Jul 09, 2014 7:13 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: HEAT; Wet or Dry For Bending Timber.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1705
Re: HEAT; Wet or Dry For Bending Timber.
You will notice that vegetable type oil is applied to the area to aid in heat penetration. A FEW WORDS OF WARNING; do not use OILS of any description if you have subsequent gluing applications to carry out in or near the heat treated area. It is for this very reason I use steam when making my bambo...
- Fri May 23, 2014 7:10 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Advice on hunting boots
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9540
Re: Advice on hunting boots
Haven't had a problem with slippery rocks with the Vibram soles on my Asolos unless there was wet moss on the rocks. I don't claim they stick like rock-climbing shoes, but I haven't had a problem. Might depend on the rocks though. Some might cause a problem and I just haven't come across them.
- Mon May 19, 2014 7:36 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Advice on hunting boots
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9540
Re: Advice on hunting boots
Can't speak for coolness in FNQ, but my preference in the bush is top grain leather. Keeps out the grass seeds, dust, etc and I find that the material doesn't matter much for keeping my feet cool. I use Asolo TPS 520, but I don't necessarily recommend them, they just happen to fit my feet really well.
- Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:04 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Which converter for a young feather burner
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3687
Re: Which converter for a young feather burner
No, still quite dark. To get a glow on my set-up I need to go to about 8 volts (from memory, might only be 7). I get up into that region, and higher, every so often to clean the muck off the strip and so get a clean profile.rodlonq wrote:Al, they must have a nice red glow at 5.5 V?
Cheers.... Rod
- Sat Apr 05, 2014 6:04 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Which converter for a young feather burner
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3687
Re: Which converter for a young feather burner
I bought some spare burner wires for a Young's burner and used them in a home made burner. From memory it took about 10 amps at 4 volts ( = 40 W) with a bench top DC power source to get them hot enough to do the job, not as hot as they show it on the 3 Rivers video though. I found that hot melted t...
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:20 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Is't It Funny HOW
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1310
Re: Is't It Funny HOW
I keep my mobile phone for family emergencies and that's about it. Most people who know me don't have the number. I do, though, spend WAY too much time on the computer. But then IT was what I did for 40 years at work. (Grahame - was that paper tape 8 channel or 5 channel?) I use the computer as a to...
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 6:46 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Armguards and hot weather.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2721
Re: Armguards and hot weather.
I've got the same problem as Mick - really sweaty area under the leather armguard on hot days. I've been thinking of making one out of leather but with a lot of cut-outs so it looks more like the plastic one Mick's getting. Haven't go around to it yet though. Anyone have any experience using an armg...
- Thu Nov 28, 2013 6:08 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Feather Fletching Tape?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4353
Re: Feather Fletching Tape?
Hi guys while we are on the subject of glues and while its not quite traditional plastic vanes and alloy and carbon shafts; always an issue; what works? Feathers seem to stick to anything OK but plastics and alloy AAAAAAAGHHHH!!! Cheers I found that Loctite 406 worked for me with plastic vanes and ...
- Tue Nov 26, 2013 6:19 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Feather Fletching Tape?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4353
Re: Feather Fletching Tape?
I use 401 for feathers on woods, and used to use 406 for plastic vanes on aluminium/carbons. 406 works for feathers on woods, but I prefer the 401 as it sets faster and so allows me to fletch my arrows faster. Using two clamps, by the time I've put the next feather in the spare clamp, the one in the...
- Tue Nov 26, 2013 6:12 pm
- Forum: Mastering the Traditional Bow
- Topic: string hits nose.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12331
Re: string hits nose.
I have much the same problem, but shooting split finger. Hitting the nose doesn't seem to affect my arrow flight much, but it does hurt. No idea how to stop it happening - I just put a bit of tape on my nose to lessen the pain.
- Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:28 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Does anyone have...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1194
Re: Does anyone have...
I've attached a manual for a BPE Pro - probably not too different from the base model.
- Sun Aug 04, 2013 7:17 pm
- Forum: Mastering the Traditional Bow
- Topic: What Do You Prefer, Dead Or Dynamic Release?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5879
Re: What Do You Prefer, Dead Or Dynamic Release?
A slight dynamic release. By that I mean that the release hand moves about 50mm - say from canine tooth to corner of jawbone.
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:02 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: any port in a storm
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3297
Re: any port in a storm
I worked at a mine once where a foreman and another guy bought between them a 44 gal [200l] drum of plonk at a time.This guy often came to work looking like Norman Gunston, from trying to shave Have fun Gazza and Perry, 'cause I can get into enough trouble with a mere cask of red. Reminds me of bac...
- Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:56 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: What is Your Favourite Bowstringer?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3380
Re: What is Your Favourite Bowstringer?
Push-pull on my longbows. A stringer would just be something else than I can't find when I need it.
- Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:08 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Cutting carbon shafts with a file
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1418
Re: Cutting carbon shafts with a file
I've cut carbon shafts with a triangular jewelers' file and that seemed to work OK. For cutting aluminium I used a good quality pipe cutter. It didn't compress the shaft if taken slowly, but it did leave a small burr on the inside of the shaft. That was removed by reaming. Now it's woods all the way...
- Sat May 11, 2013 7:07 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: How Toxic is your Selfbow / Arrow Wood
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2267
Re: How Toxic is your Selfbow / Arrow Wood
I remember them, but never used any of them. I didn't really start playing with wood until MDF was available - another one that's not real good for you.
- Tue Apr 09, 2013 7:01 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Know any good movies/series?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6610
Re: Know any good movies/series?
PS - Dr Strangelove.
- Sat Apr 06, 2013 6:05 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Know any good movies/series?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6610
Re: Know any good movies/series?
As a series "The Wire" from a few years ago. The first four series were the best I've seen for a long while. The fifth wasn't as good. Definitely not for the easily offended. All the movies that I'd recommend come from a LONG time ago. Anything in Kurosawa's samurai genre is good, but part...