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by looseplucker
Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:39 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Leather stuff - custom
Replies: 1
Views: 794

Leather stuff - custom

Gday

A mate of mine is looking for a strap for his guitar. He is a bowhunter (wheelies) so is looking for something with deer motifs. Dunno what his budget is but if any of you leatherworkers out there is interested I could pass on details.

Cheers
by looseplucker
Mon Aug 19, 2013 7:41 pm
Forum: Hunting & Fishing
Topic: Billy goat surprise
Replies: 16
Views: 4736

Re: Billy goat surprise

Or a Barnaby Joyce (which is worse).
by looseplucker
Mon Aug 19, 2013 4:44 pm
Forum: Hunting & Fishing
Topic: Billy goat surprise
Replies: 16
Views: 4736

Re: Billy goat surprise

You didn't do a Rex Hunt did you?
by looseplucker
Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:35 am
Forum: Hunting & Fishing
Topic: An evening with mates and a nice walk.
Replies: 8
Views: 2661

Re: An evening with mates and a nice walk.

You wound me Sir Rodger.....But I had 5 hours in the best country that the good Lord ever gave us and it is all true. I wish that you, Jeff and everyone else had been there...
by looseplucker
Mon Aug 19, 2013 6:48 am
Forum: Hunting & Fishing
Topic: An evening with mates and a nice walk.
Replies: 8
Views: 2661

Re: An evening with mates and a nice walk.

I KNEW you would say that Jeff. OKOKOKOKOKOKOKOKOK. I'll get back practising with the twigs and bent stick already. Sheesh. Go out hunting and there is always a critic. :roll:
by looseplucker
Sun Aug 18, 2013 9:02 pm
Forum: Hunting & Fishing
Topic: An evening with mates and a nice walk.
Replies: 8
Views: 2661

Re: An evening with mates and a nice walk.

Cheers Bob! Let the record show I kept up my batting average on this property for spraining my ankle in concealed wombat holes and set a personal best by going face first into a creek. Which is partially spring and snow fed and I was 75% into the game by then, panting like a politician in a room ful...
by looseplucker
Sun Aug 18, 2013 8:04 pm
Forum: Hunting & Fishing
Topic: An evening with mates and a nice walk.
Replies: 8
Views: 2661

An evening with mates and a nice walk.

No photos of the hunt - just a tale. I went up to a property I get occasional access to. It gets a fair bit of rifle hunting from the owners. That's cool. Anyhow Saturday night was a bit of a rendezvous and we had a hoot around the fire - having a couple of beers, talking b*llocks and just enjoying ...
by looseplucker
Mon Jul 22, 2013 1:49 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Doing the rounds
Replies: 8
Views: 1564

Re: Doing the rounds

One does one's best.

And you have to look at something when you are waiting for the glue to dry.
by looseplucker
Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:24 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: HICKORY BACKING LAMINATIONS FROM RUDDERBOWS
Replies: 12
Views: 2671

Re: HICKORY BACKING LAMINATIONS FROM RUDDERBOWS

I'm in for a 10 pack
by looseplucker
Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:21 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Doing the rounds
Replies: 8
Views: 1564

Doing the rounds

and quite topical given the debate in NSW:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH_MBwQh ... e=youtu.be
by looseplucker
Sat Jul 06, 2013 8:18 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: dont you hate that
Replies: 10
Views: 2417

Re: dont you hate that

Amazing what you can hit when you're aiming at something else....
by looseplucker
Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:40 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Just a 'Stick'.
Replies: 20
Views: 4803

Re: Just a 'Stick'.

Evening. Where do you source the Ash Graham? That piece was purchased as a large plank from Watts Woods in Brisbane http://www.wattswood.com.au/ . Other pieces have been purchased from Lazarides http://www.lazaridestimber.com.au/ . Daryl and I have purchased a fair bit of timber from Watts Woods ov...
by looseplucker
Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:46 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Just a 'Stick'.
Replies: 20
Views: 4803

Re: Just a 'Stick'.

Where do you source the Ash Graham?
by looseplucker
Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:31 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Sanding Blocks.
Replies: 6
Views: 1621

Re: Sanding Blocks.

+1 Daryl. Good products.
by looseplucker
Wed Jul 03, 2013 12:09 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Just a 'Stick'.
Replies: 20
Views: 4803

Re: Just a 'Stick'.

But those photos of your face are priceless.Your facial expressions would make a great recruit advertisement for traditional archery.
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by looseplucker
Wed Jul 03, 2013 7:17 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Draw Knife build-along - step by step
Replies: 20
Views: 4735

Re: Draw Knife build-along - step by step

Nice work Otis - inspiring too.

And great to see you Steven - been a while :smile:
by looseplucker
Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:27 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: grips on recurves?
Replies: 12
Views: 3082

Re: grips on recurves?

There is a product, and I am not making this up, that some musicians use to help them hold their plectrum when fingers get sweaty.

It is called 'Gorilla Snot'.

Have a look on www.fqms.com
by looseplucker
Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:27 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: grips on recurves?
Replies: 12
Views: 3082

Re: grips on recurves?

Rexona on the palms?
by looseplucker
Tue Jun 25, 2013 10:22 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: did bowyers find the bowyers bible useful?
Replies: 15
Views: 2856

Re: did bowyers find the bowyers bible useful?

I have all 4 and while there is some stuff in there that doesnt float my boat it would appear to do that for others - so it is all good one way or the other. The chapters on solving problems are great - as is the takedowns chapter and laminated bows.
by looseplucker
Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:00 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Rugby!
Replies: 5
Views: 1443

Re: Rugby!

That's a great story John, and I don't even care for team sport! I hope more parents of kids that play sports teach them these kinds of ethics. It would make for improved games, and improved lives of those that carry such ethics into adult life. Your boy William sounds as game ,and wily, as Ned Kel...
by looseplucker
Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:55 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Well I reckon its Cactus
Replies: 8
Views: 2117

Re: Well I reckon its Cactus

Bugger.
by looseplucker
Mon Jun 24, 2013 4:39 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Rugby!
Replies: 5
Views: 1443

Rugby!

William, my main bloke, is aged 12 and playing U14s and in his first season playing rugby is but a newbie, and I am a league player and fan (as was he) so jointly this rah rah game has us foxed. But Saturday when his unfancied Radford College team took on Burgmann was a cracker. Now Burgers are bigg...
by looseplucker
Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:34 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: First go at making a bow
Replies: 71
Views: 15702

Re: First go at making a bow

It seems okay to me. I say go for it. How long is it? Don't worry about being annoying for asking questions. It is how we learn. Every accomplished bowyer here once went through a stage of asking pesky questions of those that knew more. I don't know that I am accomplished but I've made a few and ST...
by looseplucker
Sun Jun 23, 2013 7:39 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: glue question
Replies: 18
Views: 2781

Re: glue question

I'm with Steve - West System - I tried it. Don't. It is a delamination waiting to happen. I swapped to CA techniglue and have never had a problem.
by looseplucker
Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:52 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: osage knitting needles
Replies: 7
Views: 1458

Re: osage knitting needles

Hunting trip credits my colleagues....hunting trip credits. Also a perfect answer to the perennial question:

"what have been doing out in the shed?"

"Making these for you my dear...."

Thank you linesmen etc
by looseplucker
Tue Jun 18, 2013 4:35 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: osage knitting needles
Replies: 7
Views: 1458

Re: osage knitting needles

Sure thing Jeff. Actually those needles are about 5mm which apparently does nicely for scarves and a tad shorter than standard ones.

A friend of a friend wants a shawl pin next.
by looseplucker
Tue Jun 18, 2013 12:35 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: osage knitting needles
Replies: 7
Views: 1458

osage knitting needles

Given that knitting is a traditional craft making the needles must qualify. As the weekend was busy with sport and the wife's birthday I didnt make progress on the two bows I have going - both takedowns. However I have bits of osage from off cuts and decided to make the missus something from the yal...
by looseplucker
Tue Jun 18, 2013 10:20 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Dowel maker
Replies: 15
Views: 2970

Re: Dowel maker

No worries Graham Bear in mind I was making osage dowels too - pretty hard timber. I found I had to take them down a fair way to get a good dowel cut. What I did do was cut the billets, then plane the edges, then run it through a large cutting hole first, then one slightly smaller and so on. You als...
by looseplucker
Mon Jun 17, 2013 11:35 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Rob's rant - Disc sanders and tip overlays
Replies: 8
Views: 1608

Re: Rob's rant - Disc sanders and tip overlays

Stickbow Hunter wrote:
RobHunter wrote:
I wouldn't put a sander near tip overlays. IMO a couple of rasps will do the job quickly and will be more precise with much less risk to the bow. :biggrin:

Jeff

What Jeff said. :oops: