Ozbow

Thanks Dan, the charcoal forges are pretty straight forward and fairly simple to use as long as you have the airflow adjustment.
Cheers Sean.

amazing what you can do with some take down limbs and a meccano set.

There are quite a few grizzly's on ebay in the states and looking at them they all have back and belly cores.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BEAR-GRIZZLY ... 5d44240925

another one finished http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l516/lildonnyh/DSC01273_zpsa6e0b42d.jpg http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l516/lildonnyh/DSC01270_zps7340dd2c.jpg http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l516/lildonnyh/DSC01271_zpsb72b4355.jpg http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l516/lildonnyh/...

Yeah questioned them about that and they pass the buck straight to the MYUS company that sent it for me, also picked up the other box yesterday and MYUS had opened it to put their invoice inside the box and wrapped one bit of tape around the middle and sent on, picked it up yesterday with phenolic s...

jumped on all keen to have my daily winge about my parcel and nearly missed this, very nice Bob, got a fake wood bow on the go myself, amazing how heavy that diamondwood is compared to hardwood though hey?

UPDATE
got a phone call yesterday afternoon to say it was on a flight from Singapore straight to Adelaide, woke up to another phonecall today saying it is still in Singapore and didn't make the flight due to the plane being overloaded. I'm back to worrying.

Thanks Bob, this is 1084 carbon blade steel, one of the easier ones to heat treat which was my main reason for using it, :wink: Overall length = 205mm blade = 105mm x 3mm thick handle = 100mm http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l516/lildonnyh/DSC01261_zps9f1389a2.jpg http://i1121.photobucket.com/alb...

Stickbow Hunter wrote:It looks great! You have done an excellent job.

I have been quiet on the site of late myself as we were away on a months holiday.

Jeff

Thanks Jeff, holidays hey, like my lams. hope you had a good trip.

Thanks Jeff I really enjoy this site and like to contribute to it as much as possible, though not much. :wink: got one of the skinners finished with the leftover bubinga from the bow, I'll put up a coupe more pics later, cheers Sean. http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l516/lildonnyh/DSC01263_zps333...

would be if I was on the trip with the lams. need a holiday after this.

So you can highly recommend them too, :lol: I feel better now they can actually tell me where it is now though, from what I understand but they do not want to admit, the parcel got to Adelaide and then went back to Sydney then to Dubai and now to Singapore, DHL were saying it is on a flight to Singa...

Righto it departed from Dubai but no info on how it got there. That's some well travelled laminations.

Oh my god, just got a phone call from DHL to tell me the missing parcel is on it's way to Singapore now and they won't tell me where it departed from.

I think that's what I will do next order Fanto, latest update is that they both made it to Adelaide and one somehow got redirected back to DHL's Sydney warehouse, hopefully I will see it before the weekend.

No no MYUS has been great and was all good, until it hit OZ, sent from binghams as 2 boxes to MYUS both arrived at same time, MYUS bundled them together and sent to OZ via DHL, tracking went to Adelaide and went cold for 3 days, somehow the boxes aren't together anymore and one box has been found he...

This service was great,4 days from the US to Adelaide then tracking sat idle for 3 days and now my $1000 Bingham's order has gone missing :x and no one is claiming responsibility at all, but they will do a warehouse search at every facility it has been through and try to keep me posted everyday. :ro...

yep, graph is up for number one, order arrives for two, three and four tomorrow, (different timbers, draw weights and lengths) and a chrono will be on the list after the next three are built,

I read this statement and then went for it, :mrgreen: couldn't be happier with the results, I found with enough research there is a basic equation when it comes to any one of these changes to a bows design, taking this into account I fell within 3# of my desired weight, it's not so much that I wante...

thanks Bob, got it really crackin last night, http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l516/lildonnyh/DSC01232_zpsfb356b81.jpg treated a few skinners, http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l516/lildonnyh/DSC01236_zps5677fa9f.jpg and in the oven for tempering, http://i1121.photobucket.com/albums/l516/lildon...

Gday guys, while waiting for some more bow material to arrive I have been nocking up some knife blades which are going to need to be heat treated soon, so I decided to whack a coal forge together with some gear I had laying around and a cheap blower. I thought I would share the process with some pic...

I'm by far an expert, but from all my reading lately it looks and sounds the goods to me. Can't wait to see #1 off the form.

very nice looking bow, don't know how I missed this one , amazing how similar the riser looks to the takedown longbow I am designing at the moment.

Thankyou kindly Rob :wink: , Rob's, Rod's and Bob's forgive me if I mix up the names :oops: I am very happy with the bow, also let a mate have a few shots with it, not long after that we were on the computer picking out his choice of timbers, so stay tuned for number 2 soon to come. Cheers Sean. :wi...

very nice work, I like that grizzly, keep us posted on the porker Bob, will be good to see it done.

Out the shed grinding away on some knife blades thinking about it, and I clicked as to what you were talking about Bob, I thought you meant the shape of the limb itself, but I think you were referring to the little kink that seems to be in the bamboo line in the limbs, which is as Rod called it, whe...

Thanks Rod, not sure as I said on the tree and flipped they look fine , but I can see in that pic, also the fades are different top to bottom plays a bit of a trick on the eye, even when not drawn.
Cheers Sean.

very nice, liking the second set a lot.

not sure Bob, I traced the limbs and spun the bow on the tree then did the same, the lines match up almost perfectly, about 1.5mm difference, and I can't seem to miss the target with it :biggrin: , bow is feeling really nice, no hand shock and very smooth to draw, just needs some string silencers an...

Sorry to hear about your wifes arthritis mate, good luck with the sale.