Ozbow

Nice shots Lou!

Very nice Lou (and I like the horse too!!)

My pleasure mate. I hope that it lasts you a long time and serves you well. The ink cartridges should be able to be purchased at just about any newsagents. I really enjoyed turning the horn and if anyone has a lathe I can heartily recommend horn as a nice material to turn. Now I just need to find so...

It is in the post now. I reckon that it might be nice to carry a bit of the bush around with you all day...



Cam

It was a pleasure to work too (and nice to get something together to pay him back for his generosity). The ignorant goat had crack the horn slightly which made for an interesting time when it came close to finishing it, but after a lot of superglue to stabilise it, I think that it just adds to the c...

Hi all, Been a while since I have posted here as I have been pretty busy with work and other things. However, a while ago I was trying to make some horn or home-made micarta nocks. This didn't work as well as I had hoped, but Adam had sent me the horn with the idea that I would send him an arrow as ...

Awesome veneers!

Cam

Hi, Just to clarify a few things. I suspect that you are right and the this is a San Mai blade. The reason for San Mai is to produce a beautiful pattern using softer damascus steel and have a very hard core. They are awesome knives (AND swords) if done properly. The fact that yours has a sabre grind...

I expect that some people here may have (haven't myself). Generally, you laminate the bow from two parts so the outside of the bamboo is on the back and the belly of the bow. String follow is the tendency of a bow to remain bent slightly after being strung. It slightly reduces its draw weight (read ...

Yep. Very effective.

In fact, you can make a bow purely from one of the mentioned materials with good results!

Cam

Thanks Lou.

That is sounding very promising...

Cam

New world (Ozbow?) record!

323.4 - and I have the screen shot to prove it!

Cam

317.2, but I struggled for consistency...

Most were about 270ish.

The first time I hit a high one I thought "Yes! High score, but then the damned penguin didn't bounce!



Cam

yeoman wrote:

unique crackling effect on wood

That may be fine on wood that doesn't need to bend, but I dunno about a bow...

Dave

Yeah, I was a bit suspicious about that...

Cam

Thanks for all the work that you have done.

I am VERY happy that it is continuing though.

Erron, I hope that you have a great trip OS and I hope that you "new" head honchos will be gentle!

Cam

Thanks Dave.

I am happy with epoxy for now... I just thought I would post the link, but I am glad that you have sorted me out.

Cheers

Cam

Hi all, Just in case anyone out there is thinking, "Damn I wish I could make a bow from hide glue"... Look here: http://www.cws.au.com/ Click on Glues, then select "Titebond glue" It is described as: Titebond Liquid Hide Glue is the first hide glue to be offered in a liquid, read...

erron wrote:Have been a bit long getting to this, but the unanimous decision of the moderators...

Hang on a second... Mick is a moderator! Do I see bias.

Nah. Good thread and well deserved! (Couldn't help the dig though).


Cam

Yeah, I think I agree. It looks like they might be a little short. Still very interesting. Finally, as for eBay, bidding really is very easy, but send me a PM if you have any specific questions. One thing I will say is that often people wait until the very last second before putting in a bid (to sto...

Yeah, I was just saying that so you were aware and could compensate.

Good luck with it!

Cam

Just a word of warning - it checks (cracks) horribly.

Cam

Yes... it will work.

The manufacturers tend to design their products to work in certain ratios - some you can play around with a bit, others you can't.

If in doubt trust the manufacturer.

Cam

Yeah,

I am actually in a surprisingly good mood about it.

The gluing up went perfectly and it didn't take any time to make the lams etc.

I actually reckon that it was a success (marred only by my lack of thought) - thus, there is no reason I can't get it right next time.



Cam

I have some pics and I will post them. I could possibly save the riser, but I am not sure I want to cut it up yet. The jarrah was 2-3mm thick. All lams were parallel - I was trying a pyramid bow design. The jarrah was as close to straight as I could get. As for being brittle, it didn't seem to have ...

Bugger. I have a very interesting yumi shaped bow. I completely mucked up where I placed the riser. This meant that the recurved sections weren't even and the bow has an uneven set of limbs. The result - a bow that really wants to torque downwards. Damn! Well, I was thinking of so many things that w...

You mean the cellotape and paper method has been discredited?


You were very fast on that one, but after reading it I was afraid of people asking about my rubber wrapped "present"! I suppose this is a family friendly site though.

Will do. I am sitting anxiously at work at the moment wanting to get home and unwrap my rubber covered "Christmas present".

Cam

Yeah, I must agree with you Jeff - I thought that it look straight limbed, but as for the stack... well, I suppose it might be "magical"!

As for the real thing, yes, I doubt very much it would have more than about 5 lbs of cast.

Hi again, I have a new bow gluing up in the shed right now. I haven't got around to building the heatbox yet, but all of the talk about epoxy lead me to finding out that West System Fast Hardner goes off at anything above 4 degrees (rather than 14 degrees as for slow hardener). I am also trialing th...

You missed one thing - have you seen the poster? I doubt that I have EVER seen a bow that would stack so badly!

The string angle is almost 180 degrees...

I told my girlfriend and she rolled her eyes at me.