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.
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- Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:10 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Availability of leather for handles in Canberra
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1918
- Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:41 pm
- Forum: The Cutting Edge
- Topic: Logistics of knives
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1553
Re: Logistics of knives
Thanks, that's great info.
Wayne
Wayne
- Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:26 pm
- Forum: The Cutting Edge
- Topic: Logistics of knives
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1553
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
Cheers,
Wayne
- Thu Aug 05, 2010 1:48 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Master English Warbowyer to visit Australia
- Replies: 44
- Views: 6535
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
Wayne
- Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:07 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: 120lb WARBOW arrows
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3258
Re: 120lb WARBOW arrows
Try using a rodsaw blade in the hacksaw frame. Works a treat.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
Wayne
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Cutting Edge
- Topic: knife laws in new south wales
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1791
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...
- Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:04 pm
- Forum: The Cutting Edge
- Topic: knife laws in new south wales
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1791
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...
- Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:33 pm
- Forum: The Ozbow Trade Blanket
- Topic: Wanna trade some goods
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4561
Re: Wanna trade some goods
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.tomalophicon wrote:
Sorry Wayne, I just traded them tonight. The Ash are still available.
Tom.
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:40 pm
- Forum: The Ozbow Trade Blanket
- Topic: Wanna trade some goods
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4561
Re: Wanna trade some goods
Those barelled poplars still available?
Wayne
Wayne
- Mon Sep 28, 2009 9:33 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Horn string nocks
- Replies: 1
- Views: 651
Re: Horn string nocks
Araldite, and keep the horn oiled or waxed.
- Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:33 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Footed Arrows. How old?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1584
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...
- Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:48 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: how do you finish your wood arrows?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2791
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...
- Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:41 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: What a beast.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2208
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...
- 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: 1200
Re: LH 66#@28" Ben Pearson special Longbow sold
Sold. It's been a pleasure, gentlemen.
- 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: 1200
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...
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 6:20 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: old fashioned arrowheads
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1360
Re: old fashioned arrowheads
We'll find out when I do them!
- Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:20 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: old fashioned arrowheads
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1360
Re: old fashioned arrowheads
I use his heads for all my historic arrows, just got a delivery of tanged heads to play with.
- Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:51 pm
- Forum: Traditional Crafts
- Topic: Anyone with advice regarding Period english Arrows
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1955
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 ...
- Sun May 25, 2008 10:28 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: where can you get grey lag goose feathers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1056
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...
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:55 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Warbows
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3134
Re: Warbows
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 beerLen 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.
Wayne
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:50 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Warbows
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3134
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...
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:35 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Warbows
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3134
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
Wayne
- Wed Apr 23, 2008 2:19 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Warbows
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3134
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...
- Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:34 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: natural string material
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1413
- Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:24 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Medieval arrow bags
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2346
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...
- Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:47 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Saxon Arrows
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1239
- Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:36 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Saxon Arrows
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1239
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 ...
- Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:06 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Saxon Arrows
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1239
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...
- Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:19 am
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Turkey Feathers - WINNER Announced
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4150
- Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Turkey Feathers - WINNER Announced
- Replies: 34
- Views: 4150