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Still just a whipper snapper, happy birthday.

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Great curves there cadet, red oak board, there must be thousands who started with them. Keep up the good work.

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Sue the photo with the bow and Fungal growth is a cracka. How close are those colours thanks for posting.

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Certainly was a cracka of a stag Carl. The time and effort you put into hunting and your gear has really paid off for you.
Congratulations.

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Just finished making this small stone wash drop point up, it will be going on my quiver and being used to dig me arrows out of trees and such. Small stone washed drop point Length 193 mm Blade 3.8mm 3 mm Brass pins Wood was cut from some Ringed Gidgee which is under the knife in the picture. Cheers ...

The new shafts I made up for the new Longbow, nothing flash just plain and simple.

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Congratulations with the new bow mate, must have been good to take it on its first walk.

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If you want to see the bow in action click on the link.

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https://youtu.be/a-43GHk3pBk

Well it all has to come to an end sometime doesn't it. It has been a great journey for shore and what can I say in the end I have a longbow to shoot as well. It may not be a Hill or even look like one but after more then 5 decades it is a small milestone in this Bowhunters Journey. It is funny how I...

Have made a good string and put a few arrows through her and all is looking good. Had a few knock marks on the belly side of the window so have sanded that area a bit more and all is sweet now. Was amazed how the arrow still flies strait even with such a shallow shelf. Tried a few arrow sets and the...

The bow is starting to come together and cant weight to put some life into the coating process. I had a chance the other day to actually view some Hill bows about 5 in all from a good friend and wow yes they are a reel piece of simplicity and art. I should have viewed them earlier before the build a...

Ben is good to hear from you, stay safe my friend.

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Colin hope the arm heels up well soon so you can get back into it. There's always kids out there looking for a bow hope you find the right one.

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A few more photos of the tips being filed and string grooves done.

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Okay on we go. Well a reel decision had to be made with the tips. After looking at heaps of Hill photos it appears little of the bows late and modern have any tip overlays and the ones that have are very small indeed. But I also noticed that a lot of the tips also have wedges placed between the lams...

Yeh Bob everyone has been saying that's ringed Gidgee, but I ashore you it is Rosewood. The trick is all in the sanding. I was lucky enough the piece I cut had a few little stripes already in it but the reel trick is in the sanding. After filing down the riser to the rough shape the trick is too onl...

Well as always happens forgot to take a few progress photos of when she came out of the form so will step up and fill you in where Im up to. Draw the template on the blank for a 70'' bow. Sanded her down to the lines and put some string grooves on her ready for the tillering block. Checked the tille...

Back from the bush. Alright short and sweet fellas done a practice run and glued her up. One minute at about 25lb in the hose a couple at 40lb and then topped her out.We used heat strips which didn't take long to get up to proper temp as stinking hot here at the moment. Got to70 Deg in the strips an...

Alright ready for some lams for the bow. Will be using bamboo of course with four lams and some 40 Thou Black ULS . I cut the bamboo down to 1 1/2 inch strips and Rod worked out my RCT at 357 Thou let the sanding begin. Bow builders please don't ask me any Technical questions as answers may offend a...

That's why I'm building a longbow Bob it dosn't mater which is the top or the bottom of the riser as well. Hunt in me previous post I explained that I didn't want the accent strip being visible on the side of the handle wanting it to look as close as possible to an original HH Bow. When the leather ...

Alright a little progress fellas. Now I am the first to admit I an't no perfect bow builder but I do know wood and that's in my favour. I also know very little about building the ASL's but am willing to give it a go for shore. Far as my spec's go I am going for an 70'' bow at hopefully 55lb@28. Havi...

Ever since I could fling an arrow in the back yard at an early age, I have always had a dream that one day I will make a bow and some arrows and start hitting them like Howard Hill. Well many decades have past and through my Trad journey the countless bows, the thousands of arrows which have graced ...

Looking forward to shooting some arrows and eating some of Steves venison it has been to long. Good to hear some Glady crew coming up, I know its a long hall for some. Weather is just starting to warm up a little so should be good. Smokey said a few running targets, speed round and plenty of hunting...

An excellent view, great camera work and a topic worth spreading.
Thanks for the link.

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Nothing better then shooting with the family and your own gear to boot mate.

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Will be good to catch up Rob see you all there.

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Both great shooting at 25 Y, Well done.

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Gotta love the local timber Muz, wont be long and you'll be figuring how to put some sandgroper scales in the riser inlays. Nice bow mate looking better everyone you make.

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Well finally saved up enough dollars to buy an new Damascus skinner blank for the misses. Not that she will be skinning anything with it as it will probably end up in the kitchen anyway. I have one final sand with 1200 wet and dry to go. The blank is a VG 10 Damascus steel skinner from Seki in Japan...

Jim your a bowaholic admit it ?

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