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Congrats mate you have done well. To me it looks like a bit of a flat spot about mid right limb. I'm sure you will enjoy shooting it. Well done. Eddie Steve, Well done on the test bow. Is the cypress holding up under compression and what profile is the limb cross section? Thanks guys, again it's be...

Finished up my 'boo backed cypress longbow today apart from final fettling and finishing, made from bunnings cypress picket and bunnings 'boo. Made a little differently with high end composite epoxy as I have it laying around and needed using, plus clamped in my food saver vacuum pump bag. This was ...

Thanks Gents, has been rewarding!

If I made it perfect Jeff, I could only go down after that so I had to leave some room for improvement

Finally finished off my first Osage selfbow from some timber I harvested a few years ago (and taken me 18 months to build). It's a little snakey and has a mild propeller twist in one limb but so far has shot fine. I've left it unfinished as it came in a little underweight (was aiming for 50#), so I ...

Thanks Eddie and Jeff

yes, many hundreds if not thousands of arrows went through the bows and they converted me to the joys of wood bows!

Have most of the makings for a tri-lam here, just need to get my A into G and do a bit of work to make the last few bits and get 'er done.

Unfortunately this story doesn't have a happy follow up. Shortly after the story above I heard a 'click' on drawing and let down immediately to find a splinter had lifted. Throwing it in the corner (figuratively, not literally!!) I let it lie for a while until I got round to forgiving it and doing s...

Thanks gents, both for the kudos and organising it all. Will no doubt be out there again with it ASAP hoping for a harvest to go with it.

Well, time to kick this off again. After a bit of too-ing and fro-ing, Jeff convinced me to take a replacement 50# version of the same bow after I initially declined (thanks mate, glad I did). What with one thing and another it took me a little bit of time to tune up some arrows and was lucky to be ...

Gotta love goats, well done!

What's the bow?

Bugger!

Fast forward a few weeks and I'm finally feeling like I'm in a place where I'd be happy to take a shot at a breathing animal. I've been trying the feather to nose shot initiation technique which has cleaned up most if not all the occasional wayward arrow and as a bonus has helped me shooting my othe...

Nice one! (or two ), waiting on a vid soon then

Steve

Yes thanks Eddie, it's a lot of fun to shoot and so light in the hand I can stand at full draw for ages. Obligatory grouping shot, bareshaft and fletched hitting together so good to go! IMG_1621.JPG Had a bit of an issue with the second bare-shaft flying stiff, which threw me until I discovered my t...

Firstly, many thanks again to Eddie and the La Varenne family for offering this bow up, I truly do feel lucky to be on the receiving end! I've had it for a little while now and it is my first bow shot off the knuckle, so it was a bit of a tough initiation. I only had a couple of generic 500 carbons ...

Holy shnitzel!!! Wow, thanks Eddie, I've never won anything before so this is an awesome start. Will make sure to put up some photos and stories once I get a chance. Better get me some nice wood arrows to go with it :wink: Many thanks to Dennis' family(?) for donating this, I feel humbled to be the ...

Tom

I'm after a string for a new recurve. String length would be 54" as measured off another that fits and would prefer a 12 count string. Would like black/red dynaflight 97 if you still have some left.

Let me know payment details and if you need any more info etc.

Cheers

Steve

I'll take the 3 John Tiezel DVDs, let me know details etc.

Cheers

Steve

Thanks guys!

Muz
yes, I would have taken some had it not been so hot, but I was hoping to get a nice young nanny and didn't want to carry it around with me for the next couple of hours.

Thanks guys, always good to get material (and I think I've worked out an easy work around for the image posting).

Jeff

couldn't do that, can't stack the numbers

Negotiating an arvo off from family duties (phew, keeping up with an active 3yr old is hard work!), I headed out with the intention of heading up the gully I shot my second goat after a bit of loose 4wding to get into gully start. With a mid 30's temp, driving was the preferred method and the S/SW w...

No need for postal address as I run an interstate delivery service. My runs coincides with my Sambar trips by chance. But unfortunately you can't have this one. But there's 18 months before my next trip over. You may well get lucky. RH 50+#@28" sounds about right hey :think: :Bow Gives me enou...

Phoarrr!!!! About one of the nicest builds I've seen, love those veneers! Assume it's a big jim style handle like the one you showed me?

But I forgot to give you my address

Great write up! I'm lucky to have 3 deer species within cooee of me, so hopefully one day I can add them to the list.....

Chital have snuck onto my bucket list, so enjoy reading about them.

Looking forward to Part 2.

Steve

Beautiful Muz! Cherry has been used in furniture for ages and from what I remember it has a nice straight grain too. Looking forward to seeing the next iteration

G'day Steve, I'm looking forward to seeing them in a bow also. I don't think I'm going to be able to get over to Vic next year (spewing). Will have to be 2019. Ahh well, you can't win all the time. Will give me a bit more time to try and get some other timbers for you :wink: Would particularly like...

Beautiful Muz! Looking forward to seeing some of the vic timbers in action. Have my eye out for some different ones for next year as well

Thanks Eddie, very generous of all involved. I'll start the ball rolling with a write up I did of a hunt on friday just gone. On a side note, I did find the process of adding photos very arduous, the requirements require a lot of editing to be able to upload them, and I can't get the links to imgur ...

I'm in the process of grafting a set of samick sage limbs onto a nighthawk/lightning riser. The bolt and insert fits fine, but the riser has a pin intended for the nighthawk limbs, so I'm contemplating whether to cut the pin down and install a slipper for alignment, or to drill and insert a sheath f...

Nice Bob!

Gives me something to aspire to when I eventually get round to starting on my pile of staves

The king valley is only a short hop from me, so should be no problems getting it to you. Riser blocks I can give you in a couple of different timbers, probably in black wattle as well but veneers/stock may be more difficult as I'm not really able to cut them myself but leave it with me. Let me know ...