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by waynerob
Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:10 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Availability of leather for handles in Canberra
Replies: 11
Views: 1887

Re: Availability of leather for handles in Canberra

NSW Leather have a similar range to Birdsall's and are heaps cheaper. They also sell second quality hides if you don't mind a brand or scar. http://www.nswleather.com.au/belt_leather.html
You'll still need Birdsall for dyes and tools.
by waynerob
Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:41 pm
Forum: The Cutting Edge
Topic: Logistics of knives
Replies: 3
Views: 1524

Re: Logistics of knives

Thanks, that's great info.
Wayne :D
by waynerob
Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:26 pm
Forum: The Cutting Edge
Topic: Logistics of knives
Replies: 3
Views: 1524

Logistics of knives

How to people ship knives around? Can you still use Aussie Post or does it have to be a courier?

Cheers,

Wayne
by waynerob
Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:48 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Master English Warbowyer to visit Australia
Replies: 44
Views: 6371

Re: Master English Warbowyer to visit Australia

I'd definitely be in for a Sydney workshop. I'm a distant possibility for one of the Melbourne ones as it is.

Wayne
by waynerob
Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:07 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: 120lb WARBOW arrows
Replies: 19
Views: 3198

Re: 120lb WARBOW arrows

Mububban wrote:Unfortunately 2 blades is too thin, and 3 blades is too thick. Araldite fills in the gaps but I do wish I had a 2.5 thickness hacksaw blade :D
Try using a rodsaw blade in the hacksaw frame. Works a treat.

Wayne
by waynerob
Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:22 pm
Forum: The Cutting Edge
Topic: knife laws in new south wales
Replies: 4
Views: 1751

Re: knife laws in new south wales

There are parts of the Sydney CBD (George Street near the theatres from memory) and possibly other parts that are declared knife free zones, where the Police have powers of search and confiscation of anything with a point or cutting edge including cutlery. These areas are signposted, I wouldn't be w...
by waynerob
Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:04 pm
Forum: The Cutting Edge
Topic: knife laws in new south wales
Replies: 4
Views: 1751

Re: knife laws in new south wales

Guys, the NSW laws are fairly vague and mostly are based on the intended use of the knife. You may not carry a knife on an "inclosed land" such as school grounds or a government owned site. Cutlery is excluded from this, and there are reasonable excuse provisions for carrying a knife in ou...
by waynerob
Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:33 pm
Forum: The Ozbow Trade Blanket
Topic: Wanna trade some goods
Replies: 38
Views: 4441

Re: Wanna trade some goods

tomalophicon wrote:
Sorry Wayne, I just traded them tonight. The Ash are still available.

Tom.
No worries, I have a stack of POC, I'm trying to get/make some barreled poplar shafts to do a dozen Mary Rose arrows.
by waynerob
Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:40 pm
Forum: The Ozbow Trade Blanket
Topic: Wanna trade some goods
Replies: 38
Views: 4441

Re: Wanna trade some goods

Those barelled poplars still available?

Wayne
by waynerob
Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:33 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Horn string nocks
Replies: 1
Views: 643

Re: Horn string nocks

Araldite, and keep the horn oiled or waxed.
by waynerob
Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:33 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Footed Arrows. How old?
Replies: 10
Views: 1571

Re: Footed Arrows. How old?

Graham, apart form Chapter 1, Markham palgerised his work from Ascham, simply updating the language. The original quote is in Book 2, p260 of the 1545 edition of Toxophilus. Peecynge of a shafte with brasell and holie, or other heauy woodes, is to make ye end compasse heauy with the fethers in fliyn...
by waynerob
Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:48 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: how do you finish your wood arrows?
Replies: 18
Views: 2734

Re: how do you finish your wood arrows?

Morning Clinton Only my opinion, but if you are going to make primitve arrows than a primitive finish seems appropriate. ... Animal fats may start to smell. I agree with Grahame, I've rendered animal fats before and found they last for a long time at room temperature without going off. Throw the fa...
by waynerob
Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:41 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: What a beast.
Replies: 8
Views: 2186

Re: What a beast.

They did have a steel faux-bow rigged to about 120lb draw weight, unfortunately (but wisely) it's anchored to the wall so you can't really use your whole body to climb into it. Yeah, the Nanny state made them take the string off that one some time between my visits in October 2003 and May 06. I man...
by waynerob
Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:07 pm
Forum: The Ozbow Trade Blanket
Topic: LH 66#@28" Ben Pearson special Longbow for sale
Replies: 3
Views: 1183

Re: LH 66#@28" Ben Pearson special Longbow sold

Sold. It's been a pleasure, gentlemen.
by waynerob
Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:36 pm
Forum: The Ozbow Trade Blanket
Topic: LH 66#@28" Ben Pearson special Longbow for sale
Replies: 3
Views: 1183

LH 66#@28" Ben Pearson special Longbow for sale

I sort of inherited this bow a few years back and have been looking for a left hander ever since. A Ben Pearson Special for Abbey Archery in 1983, no 23 of 40. It has only been lightly used, and is in much better condition than most bows of this age. There are a couple of marks in the riser where th...
by waynerob
Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:20 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: old fashioned arrowheads
Replies: 7
Views: 1352

Re: old fashioned arrowheads

We'll find out when I do them! :lol:
by waynerob
Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:20 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: old fashioned arrowheads
Replies: 7
Views: 1352

Re: old fashioned arrowheads

I use his heads for all my historic arrows, just got a delivery of tanged heads to play with.
by waynerob
Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:51 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Anyone with advice regarding Period english Arrows
Replies: 6
Views: 1925

Re: Anyone with advice regarding Period english Arrows

Sigh! What's the point of using hand forged heads and poplar shafts if he's going to use fletching tape, superglue and PVA? He can send the heads to shafts to me and I'll do it properly! There's no evidence I've seen that's post Otze's arrows for nock binding. Pitch as a fletching glue is character ...
by waynerob
Sun May 25, 2008 10:28 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: where can you get grey lag goose feathers
Replies: 3
Views: 1046

Re: where can you get grey lag goose feathers

The Greylag Goose ( Anser ferus ) is the direct progenitor of the domestic goose, Anser anser L . The wing pinions on both birds are white. I get mine by mail order from www.feather.com.au on the Gold Coast, tell her they are for fletching arrows (she's used to me now), ask for goose pointer seconds...
by waynerob
Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:55 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Warbows
Replies: 22
Views: 3107

Re: Warbows

Len wrote:waynerob's picture is of a proposed weopon that joined a pike to a bow and can't be used as an example unfortunately.
I could bore you guys for hours on why it wasn't just proposed and where it was used, but I think that's for another time. And another beer :wink:

Wayne
by waynerob
Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:50 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Warbows
Replies: 22
Views: 3107

Re: Warbows

Another small question - anyone have issues with the fletches hitting the face on the way past. Normally it does not occur but every now and then I fell one rip across the top of the cheek. There's a quote in Ascham (or was it Markham?) in the section on the loose that talks about one archer who ha...
by waynerob
Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:35 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Warbows
Replies: 22
Views: 3107

Re: Warbows

Mine's marked 55# @ 28", I used to draw 32" but I'm finding as I get older and more decrepit, my draw is getting shorter. 30" would now be nearer the mark (sorry, appaling pun intented).

Wayne
by waynerob
Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:19 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Warbows
Replies: 22
Views: 3107

Re: Warbows

... but I shall give my definition on them. I define a war bow as a bow being of around 78" - 80" in length, a self bow of full compass design, no leather grip, and of heavy poundage... Gav, I agree broadly with your definition but I'd like to dispute the "no leather grip", unle...
by waynerob
Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:34 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: natural string material
Replies: 9
Views: 1403

I found it was cheaper to get it direct from the factory in Ireland on eBay. The stuff I have is way too fine for stringmaking, it needs to be made into 4 or 6 ply for leather sewing.

I thought the original string material was ramie (from nettles) rather than flax.
by waynerob
Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:24 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Medieval arrow bags
Replies: 13
Views: 2314

Here's one I prepared earlier... made from light canvas and 3.6mm leather, it is 160mm in diameter, the holes in the spacer are 13mm. This is copied from one on display in the Museum of London, the Mary Rose ones are virtually identical but without the triangular cutouts. I made the spacer by taking...
by waynerob
Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:47 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Saxon Arrows
Replies: 6
Views: 1223

Just as well, because nothing glues to pitch, the feathers were all held on while binding with persuasion and a not insignificant amount of swearing. :lol:
by waynerob
Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:36 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Saxon Arrows
Replies: 6
Views: 1223

The pitch comes from the Hedeby arrow, admittedly Viking, but more or less contemporary. It works a couple of ways - as a glue to hole the feather on while binding and as an insect repellant. According to Hugh Soar, tanged heads appear to be the rule on Saxon arrows until the mid 9th century. These ...
by waynerob
Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:06 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Saxon Arrows
Replies: 6
Views: 1223

Funny how two people can look at the same picture and come up with a different shape... :D I also used the Martyrdom of St Edmund as a secondary check on the shape. The black is pitch, heads are drilled and riveted on. I had planned to upload the photos tonight as I was still working on the quiver u...
by waynerob
Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:19 am
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Turkey Feathers - WINNER Announced
Replies: 34
Views: 4077

Congrats, post some photos of the finished arrows and impress us.
by waynerob
Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:46 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Turkey Feathers - WINNER Announced
Replies: 34
Views: 4077

Ooh! Me please, sir!

Wayne