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by Andrea Willett
Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:00 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: knife laws
Replies: 14
Views: 2270

You obviously don't own any guns. When Little Johnny was making maximum political mileage out of Port Arthur we were saying: "But WE didn't do anything. We WOULDN'T do anything. The guns you're confiscating haven't been used in any crime. They're owned by what are obviously law-abiding people b...
by Andrea Willett
Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:06 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: knife laws
Replies: 14
Views: 2270

Hello Jape! "National Knife Collectors Association" is in the Victorian Government Gazette on the collectors exemption for swords. Did he give you the date of the VGG in which they have their dagger exemption? Daggers were shifted from Controlled Weapons (Exemption/Approval not required, o...
by Andrea Willett
Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:49 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: knife laws
Replies: 14
Views: 2270

Hello Jape! I checked their website http://www.knivesaustralia.com.au/akc-homepage.html and on the front page it does indeed say that "Australasian Knife Collectors (AKC) financial members are covered by the Club's exemption for the collecting of swords and double edged knives (daggers) in Vict...
by Andrea Willett
Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:13 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: knife laws
Replies: 14
Views: 2270

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...
by Andrea Willett
Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:54 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Books & the Library
Replies: 4
Views: 1035

Thanks but there wasn't actually much effort involved. I just made sure I added the current price & link to the book at Amazon so they could see that it was worth it's value. I didn't even ask them to buy it. They decided that on their own from the information provided.
by Andrea Willett
Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:23 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Books & the Library
Replies: 4
Views: 1035

They only have volume 1 on the shelf at the moment 'cause I've got 2 & 3 out but they'll be back in a week or three.

Andrea
by Andrea Willett
Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:16 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Books & the Library
Replies: 4
Views: 1035

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...
by Andrea Willett
Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:44 am
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Ace Classic Medieval Points
Replies: 26
Views: 3868

Nah mate. You set it up in the backyard and lob rocks over the house whenever people come selling Watchtower, Optus, etc. Pity the telemarketers don't show up in person. "Perfect for home defense". I've emailed Craig to put some of his other arrowheads up on the website. I know he's got so...
by Andrea Willett
Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:04 am
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Ace Classic Medieval Points
Replies: 26
Views: 3868

Manning Imperial in Ballarat will cast or forge period arrowheads. I thought Craig had a greater variety on his website but I could only find Ancient Greek ones under /Arms/Projectile Weapons. Send him a picture/drawing and dimensions of what you want & he'll quote on them. http://www.manningimp...
by Andrea Willett
Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:05 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Arrows & Spine
Replies: 7
Views: 1255

Thanks for the info guys. So what you're all saying is that I need a spine measuring doovalackie? What's available and how much does it cost?

Andrea
by Andrea Willett
Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:54 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Arrows & Spine
Replies: 7
Views: 1255

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...
by Andrea Willett
Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:35 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Hickory shafts?
Replies: 13
Views: 2781

Screwdriver method?
by Andrea Willett
Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:01 am
Forum: Marketplace
Topic: Peacock wing feathers
Replies: 3
Views: 5201

Hello Wayne!

And the photos of the finished arrows are where? : )

Andrea
by Andrea Willett
Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:56 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: A pic of my new homemade quiver.
Replies: 18
Views: 2793

Turned up a couple of times a few months ago with hubby & 2 small boys in tow and was made to feel very welcome. With so much else going in my life I keep forgetting without a reminder. Turned up the second time with my first attempt at a home made bow and a leather sling as well that proved a p...
by Andrea Willett
Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:21 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Bringing down that troublesome rabbit
Replies: 8
Views: 1612

'Scuse my ignorance but what's a Judo point?

Andrea
by Andrea Willett
Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:13 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Splitting Elm
Replies: 2
Views: 754

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...
by Andrea Willett
Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:01 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: A pic of my new homemade quiver.
Replies: 18
Views: 2793

Hello Mick!

Nice quiver. I need to make myself my first quiver (along with umpty-million other things) soon. How "near Geelong" are you? I could do with a bit of advice on dimensions, what works, what doesn't, etc.

Andrea
(who lives in Geelong West)
by Andrea Willett
Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:59 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: poorly made longbows
Replies: 11
Views: 2590

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...
by Andrea Willett
Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:36 am
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: poorly made longbows
Replies: 11
Views: 2590

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. ...
by Andrea Willett
Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:20 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
Replies: 11
Views: 1879

Ooooooo Wayne I like that one. That's even better. Could I impose on you for a photocopy of the article, or is it a big one?

Thanks,

Andrea
by Andrea Willett
Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:21 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
Replies: 11
Views: 1879

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...
by Andrea Willett
Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:55 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Arrow Shafts - thin coppice or split timber?
Replies: 6
Views: 1699

1, 4, 5, 7 & 8 That's what I was intending. 2, 3 & 6 They're good ideas, I'll do that. : ) 9 Thanks. Yes, I was intending self nocks. Some day I'd like to do a set of those cute little cast bronze, tanged nocks from Hedeby for a display set of arrows but not for the first batch of trial arro...
by Andrea Willett
Sun Feb 05, 2006 11:10 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
Replies: 11
Views: 1879

Hello Dennis! The only complete Northern European "Viking Age" bow that I know of is the one from Hedeby in my last post (what the hell did I do wrong with those photos by the way, that they came through so huge?). Of course there may be new information today that they didn't have when tha...
by Andrea Willett
Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:28 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Arrow Shafts - thin coppice or split timber?
Replies: 6
Views: 1699

Hello John! Bamboo is native to SE Asia & is not at all period for Viking archery. Hello Dennis! I'm interested in Viking Dublin about 1005AD. That's about what I thought would be the case. If you could track down that reference I'd be very grateful. Below are the ash twigs I cut yesterday after...
by Andrea Willett
Sun Feb 05, 2006 8:21 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
Replies: 11
Views: 1879

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...
by Andrea Willett
Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:56 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Arrow Shafts - thin coppice or split timber?
Replies: 6
Views: 1699

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
by Andrea Willett
Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:53 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Making a Viking Longbow
Replies: 11
Views: 1879

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...