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Hi Kevin, Just looked through your query about sourcing some local timber. I went down the same route some time back trying different flooring companies. Marri (Red gum) would make a beautiful riser but has too much sap to be suitable in laminations. However I might be able to help you out with some...

Hi Jeff

Thanks for the welcome back, great to look through the site and see some old names. I'll definitely look in more often. When I get the bow-making going at school I'll post some progress pics and comments.

Hi Mububban, Surprise, surprise! I've just checked the site after an absence of a few years and saw your post. Great to see you are still involved and contributing to the site. My curiosity was aroused after watching the Time Team epsiode this week, where they had two Welshmen shooting their longbow...

Nice job Grahame. I bet the satisfaction of building these outweighs any earlier form problems. Now I wonder if they need some elvish script of thoughtful sayings on them....... Hmm, how do you write "Fly fast, strike true!" in Elvish script? According to this link, this is the alphabet co...

Dave, Footed shafts are great fun and reasonably easy to make at home. Here's a very good pictorial link from Buford showing how to make two-wing footings that has been viewed heaps of times: http://www.ozbow.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2217&highlight=footed There is another thread in our Trad Cr...

Woody Like Jeff, I am astonished that you have had such poor treatment. I would have thought that most people involved in our sport could show a reasonable degree of integrity. Good on you for insisting on 'upfront' payment first. Some of our local shops plagued with thieving have had to resort to s...

Dave Sorry, in my last post I gave you an incorrect link to Atarn: try www.atarn.org for all things relating to hornbows, composite asiatics etc. If you want to see a real drooly hornbow, have a look at Alessi Francesco's latest turkish creation at this url:- http://198.170.108.27/phpBB2/viewtopic.p...

Dave, Nice to hear from you in the UK. So you are going to be taking on quite a challenge building a horn bow. My attempt at a horn composite bow was been one of the most frustrating projects attempted, despite all of the material available on the web. Just goes to show all the knowledge in the worl...

Dennis, Your remarks about the cause of crystaline problems are both perceptive and accurate. All of the things you have described in this case appear to be definite contributors. Years ago, I did notice this chrysalling effect occurred almost every time when I was trying to get a couple of staves f...

School is finished for the year and you now have some spare time. Forgot to respond to that one Jeff ... apart from bowmaking, the missus has a number of jobs around the property that I have started. My theory is to get in early and keep the little woman happy .. then I can get back to some serious...

MaylandL, I would be interested in making up some arrows. I have quite few flecthes but keep me advised especially if you are placing any orders for barred feathers etc. Jeff, I don't believe the bamboo backing is overpowering the belly. Karri has very high MoR/MoD (much higher than bamboo) and as f...

MaylandL That was quick mate! I have only just posted the pictures (takes me ages to get a thread done). Yep, love to have a shoot soon. My son is with us for a few months and would like to come out as well. I'll keep you up to date about some shire land that is right here in town that I am applying...

Dennis, Wanted to thank you for presenting this thread and allowing your efforts to be open to scrutiny. I have just posted the results of the longbow I managed to correct using the process you outlined here. http://www.ozbow.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=5974 Time will tell just how permanent the resu...

Just finished my latest effort, a bamboo backed English longbow. Timber used: WA karri on the belly, hickory mid-layer and raw bamboo with buffalo horn nock tips. The bow is 72" from tip to tip and 1" across the handle. It draws smoothly for the first 18" then starts to pick up weight...

Darn it! I haven't check the trade site for some time and would have loved those arrows.

Clinglish wrote:

We could both go tree hunting anytime

Wayoutwest replied:

No tree is safe from here to Australand.

So ... let the photo speak for itself!

Steve I agree with all the comments posted about your bows - fine work. The bow with the wenge riser is particularly attractive. Could you share with us just how you manage to get such clean radius lines in your risers? I would also like a pattern design of your quiver or any step by step pics taken...

Dave, Congratulations! This could become one of those "classics" for bowyers everywhere. As both an aspiring bow-builder and maths teacher, I have followed your thread with great interest and dowloaded DeltaCAD as you suggest - handy little program for sure. HOMEWORK: try drawing a few bow...

Tom I have a small box full of fancy breed turkey feathers from a local breeder. The vanes are finer than usual fletchings and are attractive brown and cream specks, while others are creamy brown all over. I recall that you are trying to make up some mongol or japanese fletchings - these would proba...

Hi Chris, Good to hear you're wanting to get out for a shoot in February. I have to say that I still prefer Hoddywell. I don't know whether I would shoot at Gleneagles again: the course needs a bit of cleaning up. At the last 3D shoot, there were plenty of arrows lost in the scrub behind targets (no...

Jeff wrote: A number of posts in this thread have been removed because they had NO relevance whatsoever to do with the subject of this thread. Also personal insults were starting. :? Sorry to read about this - whoever you are, if you have a real beef with someone's point of view please sort out your...

Well said Moreton. He has certainly left his mark on the nation by representing all those battling against greedy corporations. I like the way his lawyer described JH's attitude to their former staff: And last Thursday, he won a final and very personal victory over James Hardie when the company agre...

Made some progress by cleaning off the back of the stave and preparing for bamboo backing. While flattening down the back to receive the bamboo, I decided to add a mid-lamination as the bow looked like it was going to be too thin. I had some hickory cut from a spade handle that I spliced using 45 an...

Dennis, Thanks for giving such a good breakdown of your plan to try and save this bow. I'd be keen to see some photos of the setup and results - successful or otherwise. I notice fom various posts sent in over the years that sooner of later, this seems to happen to anyone building their own bows. I ...

Interesting discussion. Mick wrote at the start of this thread: I don't think there is a single full-time bowyer in Oz. I would love to be proven wrong on this. Chris from Molinjor Longbows runs a full-time business and has been making bows for several years. While not promoting his bows ahead of an...

Moreton,

Thanks for the quick response in putting your stance more clearly. No specific offence taken. As Grahame has said, wrongly stated (or misunderstood) views can quickly hijack a thread and end up in a free-for-all.

Grahame A wrote: A request to all. Please choose your words carefully as the last thing I want is people getting upset and saying things that they later regret or touch other peoples deeply held beliefs. Thank you Grahame - well put. As a committed, born again Christian, I do get somewhat sensitive ...

You may recall I started workshops after school with some keen students. At last they have reached the stage of tillering and testing their creations. One of the best looking bows came to an unfortunate end - after a couple of promising looking shots, the lower limb cracked wide open. Turned out the...

Just finished reading one of the best (could hardly put it down) books I have seen for some time. For those who love a good yarn wrapped around a afscinating historic figure, this one is worth the price. If there is interest, I'll post some descriptive scenes from the book of Mongols using their bow...

Did anyone else watch the episode on Time Team this week? They were uncovering the site of a medieval castle - fascinating archeology, but in keeping with their recreation of ancient artefacts, they got a boywer to make an English longbow. It was classically cut in one day from a stave of seasoned y...