Ozbow

you need a permit in qld cost is 50 odd bucks for a family one think thats what i paid last year . you can get it by mail from a few places ( metal detecting shop southside of brissy ) ( i cant remember bugger all lately, lucky my ute knows the way home )or if you are in toowoomba you can get it fro...

no have not seen a big white one for a while . we are getting at least 2 maybe 3 different mobs passing through , they seem to take turns .
saw a couple of pretty good size black and white spotty hogs just down the road the other day too .

johno

oy rod i snapped a pic of some of my morning visitors this morning .
johno

G,day jack.

she comes from wales , everyone from wales has a big voice .

bigbob wrote:where is Mingoola!!!?

just up the road from me ,

johno

thanks fella's .
yep ..............whooooosh what happened ......oh there goes another year .

johno

conrats mate . there just aint nuthin like grand kids is there .and on the aniversary too well done .

johno

Texx, you have nailed it! Yes its fun, it is what it is all about. I cant get enough of it myself, and when it gets you it gets you good. Let it happen, and get into making your own strings and arrows, cresting and it just gets better. Ronster yeah well its the making part that i do enjoy , more th...

yeah still working on form and that could be the biggest of my probs . as i am only just getting started still trying to find what suits me best , its all fun though .

johno

is there a particular reason why my arrows that dont hit the spot mostly seem to go wide to the left and or a bit high . its seems that very few go low and or right . this new bow seems to like my crappy old arrows that i put together very wrongly . i never fletched them properly its all over the pl...

ok ta for that i will need to make some targets for home but for now i have spoken to my old boss and have the run of the big bale stack down at the lucenre farm so i will be using that for the time being . just got back from there actualy .,

johno

or how much you cant the bow too.

that makes sence to me , ill go try that , .


back and it spined the same . .490 or 53.061#

johno

bob if you want to play around with that and you enlarge it before printing make sure you enlarge it the same in all directions . if you double clilck and drag it bigger by one side you alter the scale i rekon , what i did was drag in bigger by the corner cos i think that keeps the correct ratio , o...

made a tiny bit of diffrence now its 53#

oh yeah forgot about that . give myself an uppercut .

johno

just downloaded it from the net and saved it transfered it to word made it to the size i wanted without altering the the length to width ratio and printed it out . ang i'll go get it . hope this works , its on page 3 , i right clicked the diagram and saved it on its own then copy and pasted it into ...

made this today, spine tester . seems to work ok .
this wallace wood i just tried it out with is telling me its 51# spine .
johno

these little ones i have at home are'nt jeff but the ones down on the farm where i used to work were plenty good enough at 8'x4'x4' lucerne stacked 4 high and tipping the scales at about 850kg's each they made great targets i used to shove iced coffee container under one of the strings about chest h...

ah yeah good idea but what if you dont have a heap of arrows to choose from cos you are just getting started .i do have 6 very rough arrows that i threw together myself for the selfbow i made a year or so ago but they are the roughest arrows on the planet and fletched wrong and not even worth using ...

little arrows wrote:Hey texx.

Were those the ones at Toowoomba?

cheers
sue

yes sue they were

yep suppose its some thing i will have to get used to but this one was just me not being real smart at all , ah well i learnt some thing else today . i bought a nice new set of wallace woods on wednesday , then yesterday to help keep them in good order i made a case to keep them in and hope fully st...

ok i have got it about as far as i think i should go , the last few inches of the limbs dont look like they are doing much of the work to me but i dont want to make it any lighter to rectify that ( opinions please ) . one picture braced with the new string ( not twisted ) and one at my draw of 28&qu...

3" with a 1/4 shank is a bit long i would of thought for that shank size but i suppose as long as you take it steady it should be ok . i bought a 2" carbatec pattern following bit today with a 1/2" shank from ken toowoomba woodworks . this LVL beam stuff will be hard on any router bit...

bought myself a half doz knock about target arrows :biggrin: :mrgreen: today while i was in toowoomba , could not bare the thought of finishing this bow and not having anything to sling out of it , got a string for it so all i have to do now is slip in and get it finished . gee they are nice arrows ...

looks like yuz are all gangin up on me re the fades .. its 68" ntn rod .

johno

getting closer , did some knock overlays and some rough sanding on the riser just to shape it a bit , sanded along the limb sides until there were no band saw marks and have a long string on it and it bends , i am picking up a string in toowoomba on wednesday .dont have any amo for it yet though i s...

thanks very much

whats the norm for the riser block height as in from the back of the bow to where the palm of the hand will rest because that will influence the arc in the fades wont it ?? maybe i started with my block to big i just measured it and it is 1 3/4 " at the moment before i do any shaping i have tak...