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oh mick... your a funny man.. that made me laugh even harder than the hambush one...

i just bought my first 'jungle hammock', a commando "G.I style!" thing... i have only set it up on my balcony so far, but its very comfy, weighs nearly nothing and rolls up tiny, and it only cost 50 bucks new!

hey moss havent been on here for a while...

Anyway i was having a chat to a blacksmith a few weeks ago

who was this blacksmith? i know a few around tassie... Karl, Tim Lowry and R.J Willing...

mate, the idea sounds great, but i cant see the pictures! is it cause im using a macintosh?
Thanks, Gus.

I can't 'youtube' on dialup I am afraid, ah, sorry mate, didn't realise you were on dial up. can you get access to it for a bit off a friend or at work? just couse i know they would be very helpful to you... i think it was an expert village series that made it. paleo planet also have a youtube acco...

hey mate,
i saw some great videos on youtube about flintknapping. showing how to flake big chunks using only another rock, and how to shape and bevel the flake to a knife... try searching youtube for them..

ok thanks mate

hey all. well, this week, we are moving house, just to another place in town, and as a was cleanng out our "useful draw" (99% crap in there...) i came across an old pocket knife. it had no handle scales attatched, one plain carbon steel blade and a bluntly serrated looking thing, i think i...

Daryl, that is such a beautiful bow...!

just out of curiosity, what price would one be looking at for one of those?

Unfortunately I sold my boat so I don’t have a need for an anchor.

haha... took me a sec to get that one...

ooh, that bloke near the start nearly copped one in the ankle...! gotta be careful where they walk.... I tried shooting my #50 samick SKB with my thumb, with and wthout protection, and it hurt like buggery! i tried all different ways of holding it with my thumb i could think of, and they all wanted ...

thanks graeme.
but mine still wandered when it was new? its just a fairly cheap GMC 200mm bandsaw... whats that in inches?

yeah... just a bit more weight and he would be there!
sorry Keith...

Gus.

i have a question (sorry if i missed the answer in here allready!) but will a wider blade stay on track better? my narrow little one wanders all over the place...

graeme, i like that idea of the hinged bits of metal you had... its so simple!

Gus.

beautiful looking bow mate! love the strong curves in it...

beautiful work mate, and i love the beard

rod,
pretty sure they are different companies mate... i could be wrong, but im nearly poisitive they aren't.

i used to own a internature viper, which is similar to the samick outlander, and i have a magazine page comparing the two, which would probably mean they are from different companys?

Gus.

sorry to kick tis back up... but
1) why can't i see the pictures? is anyone else getting the same problem?

2) would this possibly grow in northern tassie? (its close to vic....)

thanks,
Gus.

My older 13 year old son seems to have lost some interest in archery. I think he has discovered girls or something. He only likes to do 'cool' stuff (whatever that is?) these days. im 16, and girls get in the way a bit, yeah... especially because they all dont like hunting! they think its bad... go...

damn fine job there mate! im very impressed with the way you have matched their thickness so evenly! and the fletching/cresting is prime to match

is the diference between the strings just weight of the materials thay are made from?

if we had kept training in heavy bows consistently till nowaday, do you think we would have evolved too have sort of super shoulders? as in like really bulky and strong?

Do you think modern soldiers go to war with only one rifle ?

i dont know.. do they?

uring the 100 years war the English army had a huge number of warbows made to take with them to france ( three per archer i think it was)

THREE bows to an archer?? why? thats rediculous! what a waste of bows?!

how did yours go moss? i read about a guy who made one from wood, spent ages doing it, and it worked beautifully, but smashed first go...
have you simply googled it?

great, thanks mate i will drop him a line.. i think he has a phone... or will see when i can get around too seeing him!

by lying i mean he is a collector of old things, and owns a small shop selling all old odds and ends, and takes good care of all his things... and the whenstone is lying in the back yard, unused with a brokien frame... maybe he doesn't really use it ?

ah a whetstone... thats what i want! my great uncle has one lying in has yard, unused...

well that looks easy enough... always imagined filing would take hours and hours of hard work... approximately (sp?) how long does it take to file a bevel like that?