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Well Sean, I suppose things like buying my glass in bulk (which makes a huge difference, last time I bought glass two years ago I think it cost around $12 per strip at my door. but you have to get at least 100) and having access to timbers cut directly from the scrub by small milling operations and ...

Nice one Bob, the simple things in life are indeed often the best. I find it a little amusing sometimes that people have the idea that the materials that go into making a bow effect the price dramatically. I find that the materials used have a very minimal effect on the price, in fact, in my case th...

Hey Steve, good on you mate, sounds like a winner, I'll send a couple down if I can get on top of the orders that seam to be coming in pretty steadily at the moment,,,, but that will change I'm sure.
What weight range do you reckon? My guess would be 45-55 #.

Cheers, Rob.

Excellent work Daryl, very tidy. The node spacing on the bamboo is very symmetrical as is the steam bending.

Rob.

Very nice indeed Bob, great colors, bummer about the extra pounds. Are you still going to keep it?

Rob.

I think it's actually a Kind of Desert Oak.

Rob.

What do you mean by an I beam the phenolic strip or the Silver Ash veneers ? If the phenolic, then it's for extra lateral strength through the arrow rest area, and if it's the veneers, it's for grain stabilization. But the answer to your question Jeff is, No I've never made a composite bow without e...

Thanks everyone, comments like that make the extra effort worthwhile. Can't wait to see how the one I'm working on at the moment comes out, it's mostly white (Silver Ash) with Yellow Sandalwood in the center of the riser and Lacy She Oak on the back of the limbs and the grip overlays. I'm going to u...

Just made this for a nice fella . When I asked him what timbers he wanted to use he said it was up to me but he wanted upgrades on all the overlays. So having an assortment of new timbers I recently acquired to choose from I came up with this. Stats; Flatline MC2, 62"ntn, 56#@28" SDC12948....

I was given a couple of small logs of this a while back. Today I was cutting up an off-cut to see what it was like and found that the perfect quarter cut looks like this. The faces in the photo are about 20 mm wide. the wood in the background is Sandalwood. SDC12913.JPG Pretty specky hey :shock: 8) ...

Thanks blokes, Hey Steve, it's from my stock. I haven't heard that it's been put on the no-cut list,,, but then I have enough stock to last a little while. It would be a bummer if it is and I can't see why it's not exactly rare. Yeah I like it too Bob, a bit difficult to work with but worth it. Rob.

Thanks for the comments fellas. if you get a 550gn arrow I reckon 200 F/P/S is a walk in the park What the!!! Graydon at Frasers draw weight that makes that arrow 5.7 grains per pound of draw weight. Not really a good idea :neutral: and outside the parameters setout in the warranty, hope you're not ...

Thanks Mick, sounds like I'm on the right track.

Rob.

Has anyone ever had problems with polyurethane not drying on specific timbers? I've just finished a take-down for a guy, the riser is made from Black Gidgee and Gutta Purcha and the first coat has dried perfectly on the Black Gidgee but has remained tacky on the Gutta Purcha for three days. I have h...

Nice little bow Bob.
That's a tragedy about the PNG Walnut mate it's very hard to come by too like the ringed Gidgee.

Rob.

Hey Stuart, if the end result is a bow that shoots well and functions properly then you can't be doing it wrong, just different. There are many ways to reach the same goal. I personally fix the limb blanks to the riser and use a string-line to find the center of the limb tip on the blanks. Have a lo...

Nice work Stuart, welcome to the group, as Jeff said, good to see another Aussie at it, your bows look great, do you have some photos of your one-piece bows? I notice you cut out your limbs before they are attached to the riser, how do you make sure your string tracks central through the bow? very i...

inspiring Daryl, I wish I had the confidence and tools to work at that speed,,,,, but like you said, maybe with practice .

Rob.

Good onya Rod, going great guns. Yeah I like to spend my holidays working too .


Rob.

Thanks Rod, Rod and Graydon. If I wasn't up to my ears in work I'd be making a bow or two right now. I hope the enthusiasm (and memory) lasts until this current job is over :roll: . Cheers..... Rod Hey Rod, How's your head ? I take it you got the contract you were talking about. Don't work to hard M...

Very nice Mika, the Osage and the hickory go well together.

Rob.

Thanks guys, very gratifying, I must be too nice, I built my mates for free :shock: Cheers Sean. Hey Sean you are too nice, but the thicknesser was just siting in his shed doing nothing and the bow is worth twice as much. Bob, the Lacy She Oak is left over from another bow I made for Chris AKA Slvrs...

Here's one I made recently for a good friend of mine so he and his boys can fling a few around. He went for the gloss finish cause it wont be hunted with. I'll be paid for it with an industrial grade thicknesser with a 600 wide bed,,, should make life a little easier. It's a fully upgraded 62" ...

Hey Hamish, thanks for the good advice but they were already checked when I got them. I sealed the ends which might help a bit and I just haven't had time to mill them up yet. I usually try to mill and stack green timbers to season as soon as I get them but you know what it's like,,,, When it rains ...

Thank you Zega, you're welcome and welcome to Ozbow.

Cheers, Rob.

Hey Rob http://www.ttit.id.au/treepages/austebony.htm Found this with a speies name rgds Another Rob Thanks Rob, I have seen that site too, but no mechanical properties mentioned there either. And yeah Bob it is checking quite badly, I've sealed the ends but isn't helping much. Hey Hamish, I won't ...

Goatchaser wrote:I can't help, but fingers crossed that ebony is usable, would be great to see in a bow.

Yeah that's what I'm hoping too Sean.

Sounds like you got much the same result as I did Bob.

Rob.

I recently made a bow for a fella who's dad has a dry country hardwood export business and as part payment for the bow he has given me a couple of Ute loads of assorted logs including Black Gidgee, False Sandal wood, Orange Box (which looks like some kind of very finely grained oak), real Sandal woo...

Looks like I might be close to the right stack. I calculated 0.150" core (at mid-limb) with 0.040" glass on back and belly (total stack = 0.230"). My riser is 19" (overall in a straight line, not along the back), how long is yours? Hey Rod, this is where the comparison gets a li...

Great stuff Bob. It's kind of fun isn't it, Graham foster and I made quite a few a while back for the Tully club and most of them are still going strong.
They're real horns on the goat.

And we called the ram Princess Laya

Cheers, Rob.