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- Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:00 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: knife laws
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2310
- Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:06 am
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: knife laws
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2310
- Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:49 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: knife laws
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2310
- Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:13 am
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: knife laws
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2310
Hello Pedro! You might want to adjust your account so we can see what state you're from. As noted previously, this will affect what answers you get. If in Victoria http://www.dms.dpc.vic.gov.au/Domino/Web_Notes/LDMS/PubLawToday.nsf?OpenDatabase has a list of prohibited weapons in the appendix. Dagge...
- Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:54 am
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Books & the Library
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1055
- Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:23 am
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Books & the Library
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1055
- Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:16 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Books & the Library
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1055
Books & the Library
I bought a copy of volume 1 of Traditional Bowyers Bible last year. I didn't have enough money left for volumes 2 & 3 so I went to my local library and put in a request for them to find the missing volumes through inter-library loan which only cost $2.00 per book. I checked a couple of weeks lat...
- Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:44 am
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Ace Classic Medieval Points
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3955
- Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:04 am
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Ace Classic Medieval Points
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3955
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:05 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Arrows & Spine
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1279
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:54 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Arrows & Spine
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1279
Arrows & Spine
Hello All! More, undoubtedly oft-times repeated, newbie questions. I didn't know there was such a thing as "spine" before today. I found a thread in one of the other forums (very slow day at work) about an spine measuring doovalackie and how an arrows spine had to match the poundage of the...
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:35 pm
- Forum: Shooting The Breeze
- Topic: Hickory shafts?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2821
- Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:01 am
- Forum: Marketplace
- Topic: Peacock wing feathers
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6032
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:56 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: A pic of my new homemade quiver.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2829
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:21 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Bringing down that troublesome rabbit
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1646
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:13 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Splitting Elm
- Replies: 2
- Views: 767
Splitting Elm
Hi All! I am picking up some elm, hopefully this Saturday. A friend in Ballarat has told me that it is impossible to split and has to be sawn. Paul Comstock on TBB vol. 1 states: "Slippery elm can be split much like any other wood. It's work, because all elms have interlocking grain to some deg...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:01 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: A pic of my new homemade quiver.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2829
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:59 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: poorly made longbows
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2649
Yew Staves
Hello Hamish! Does the GIT get done here after it arrives? Was that freight calculation AUD100 freight + AUD50 GIT + AUD50 customs or AUD100 freight + AUD50 customs/GIT? AustPost has a length restriction on packages, don't they? I don't intend to make a yew bow in the near future. Not until I have a...
- Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:36 am
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: poorly made longbows
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2649
Importing Yew Bowstaves
Hello Hamish! How do you go about importing yew bowstaves into Oz? I sort of looked into it a while ago but it looked very complex and expensive. There was a seller of yew bowstaves on ebay in America but the staves had bark. When I checked the Oz customs website I couldn't import timber with bark. ...
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:20 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1933
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:21 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1933
Hello Dennis! Knots: The staveish was a very unevenly split beasty. There were some knots along one edge that I intended to cut back anyway to even her up. Some of them were free for a ways into the stave as well. I just narrowed the wide end so that it was vaguely similar to the narrow end, removin...
- Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:55 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Arrow Shafts - thin coppice or split timber?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1714
- Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:10 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1933
- Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:28 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Arrow Shafts - thin coppice or split timber?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1714
- Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:21 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1933
Northern European Bows
Hello Dennis! Here is the photo of, and accompanying text for, the/a Hedeby Bow from Viking Artefacts A Select Catalogue by James Graham-Campbell, 1980, British Museum Publications, London. This is the one that started it off. Also the Viborg & Nydam bows from chapter one of Robert Hardy's Longb...
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:56 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Arrow Shafts - thin coppice or split timber?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1714
Arrow Shafts - thin coppice or split timber?
Hi All!
Would anybody know if arrow shafts, before the age of mechanical dowling (Mary Rose and earlier actually), were made of thin coppiced suckers or if they were split and turned out of thicker timber?
Andrea
Would anybody know if arrow shafts, before the age of mechanical dowling (Mary Rose and earlier actually), were made of thin coppiced suckers or if they were split and turned out of thicker timber?
Andrea
- Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:53 pm
- Forum: Traditional Tackle
- Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1933
Making a Viking Longbow
Hi All! I've been a Viking Age re-enactor for about twenty years though I'm new to this list and basically new to archery apart from the occasional twang with someone elses bow. I've recently decided that I'd like to have a go and that I should combine the two past times. I've some experience with w...