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There were 3 things that caught my attention particularly.

The bow toss by the 2nd archer when he missed the gold.
The 3rd archer torquing is arrow off to the side - something I remember doing more than a few times myself.
And the girl, breathing out to a state of relaxation prior to loosing.

Some excellent shots in this trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... Omc2GzWtSE

Ok. It's animated. But awesome nonetheless.
Pixar's upcoming "Brave"

I went to the blacksmith club meet in Brisbane today ... PS If anyone in the Bris area wants to have a go you are most welcome and it will be the best value you can get for 10 buck which includes a nice lunch too. Thanks for the head's up. I'll definitely look into that my my kids. Any contact, web...

I made myself a bow using an Ausbow kit. From personal experience I can recommend it as a starter.

My buildalong can be found:
http://www.ozbow.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=10025

I still shoot it today.

Rule of thumb.

If the email asks you to send a copy to everyone you know - it's a hoax.

"PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS" for instance.

Awesome story.

Love it.

Another option - if you want something quick or simple is a Rattan bow. Very quick to make but quite low poundage. I used the guidelines from here: http://bowyersedge.com/kidsbows.html Sourced a few cane staves from a cane furniture place in Brisbane (about $15 each). Cut the stave in half, then tap...

Heya. I've been looking into doing the same thing for a while now. In fact, that was one of the justifications I used in my head to buy the lathe in the first place :) Plenty of guides available online. Have a look at: http://www.stwt.org/drumsander.pdf or http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthrea...

Beautiful photos. Esp the first set.
I was going to say it looked like home when I realized it was
Lions road is a hidden gem of a road, tucked away amongst miles of unsealed stretches.

http://www.carbatec.com.au/scraping_c260
Or similar.

When used properly they perform somewhere between sandpaper and a fine woodplane.

Heyas. I was given an "Indian" fibreglass bow today - almost certainly this one or very similar. http://www.sportime.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=638 However it only has one string nock and even that one looks like it's on its way out. I know this is hardly the i...

AWESOME!!

Yeah. I'd have said 40# to 45# too. Lower range for trad or recurve, higher for compound. HOWEVER. The poundage you can pull as a raw starter and the poundage you can pull a few weeks later are very different things. You will tone up rapidly and the weight that was only just able to be pulled will p...

Hamish wrote:$55 for postage! You could have that parcel airmailed to you from half way round the world for less!

Techniglue is classed as a corrosive so extra precautions are needed (ie - cost) when sending it by post.

Buy it locally or find someone that will send it by normal parcel post.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/1 ... tnews.html

12 yr boy arrested at gunpoint and handcuffed for playing with toy guns.

Ok. That's only half the story but still...

I watched some of these a while back.

What impressed me the most was the presenters PASSION for his subject.

Looks good mate, I like your handle design that looks different...Roscoe I'm not yet sure I like the riser design. It's not... I have no idea. But I've seen some beautiful fluid designs. I'll play with it a bit more till I'm satisfied. Like I said - I can always take off more later. If it's your fi...

Thanks

Over the next few days I gradually sanded it down smoother and smoother - with increasingly fine grades of sandpaper. I sprayed it with a polyurethane based clear coat and buffed it down between coats with 0000 steel wool - that was a learning experience too. Never sealed anything like this before a...

I shaped the riser as I planned. Marked out the arrow shelf starting at 2" above center. I marked a line from the edge of the limb - 3" up from the top of the shelf down to 3/8" in at the shelf. Made a series of cuts most of the way down to the line with a hacksaw and chiselled the wo...

While working on that I also finished a quick Flemmish String making jig and made a few strings following the excellent guide here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXaUxSqu63o My first string seemed to turn out quite suitable (loops were a bit too big. I made another string later) http://i227.photobu...

The next stage coming up was shaping the riser. This is a critical step and another of the "No going back" stages. Once I remove some of the riser wood there's no putting it back. so I traced out the shape of the riser section onto some framing pine and made a few practice risers. I'm seri...

Now. Nock tip overlays. My materials included a piece of phenolic - resin impregnated cloth. However I was rather impressed with the look I saw in another build-along where the bowmaker used some extra backing glass with a layer of wood on top. With that in mind I took stock of what materials I had ...

That done I stripped off the masking tape protecting the glass (was getting a bit tatty by that stage), added new masking tape and marked out the centre line and shape. http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/ppofandt/archery/1stlambow/IMG_1822.jpg Rather than subject my rather underpowered bandsaw...

Glueup time. I was more than a little nervous here as this was a one way process. Excited but nervous. No going back once started. Exceited but nervous. I mixed up the 2 parts of the Epoxy (Techniglue) - probably making too much but for a first time run I preferred too much to too little. I covered ...

I started with a set of materials purchased from Ausbow. 4 pairs of core laminations, Bubinga riser block & 2 lengths of black fibreglass. http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/ppofandt/archery/1stlambow/IMG_1776.jpg While reading up (memorising actually) on the construction steps that would ...

Heya. I thought I'd share a Laminated Flatbow build I recently completed. I'm a little self-conscious about posting this as it isn't anything particularly special. It's a run-of-the-mill, bog standard laminated flatbow. HOWEVER, it's the first serious bow that I've made and I'm hoping to encourage a...

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I think I'll spend a bit of time this w/e looking to see what materials are available and possibly making a trial piece.

Probably will be a bamboo pyramid bow. I'll do a trial to see just how fiddly it is and what sort of weight it comes out as.

Thanks again.

G'day Now that my kids are getting a bit older my wife has been hauled back into the Scouting movement and is now the Cub Leader for our local Scout group. She's been looking for projects for the cubs to work on - wanting something a little different to the usual paper machie and sticks jobs. Given ...

Beautiful looking baby bow there mate.

My boy has been picking at me to make him one now that I've finished mine.
Maybe I'll give it a try.