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Hey Rod How's it going? Good to see you're still at it mate. Can't see anything to fault in your design, looks the goods to me. One thing I would suggest is when you make your form, flatten the area where your nock tips will be, makes for easier fitting and gluing of your overlays. Oh and another th...

Very nice work Sean. I really like the timber/antler combo, you must be as happy as a pig the proverbial hey!

Keep up the great work man.

Cheers, Rob.

That's the stuff Andy. Great mood and excellent lighting .

bigbob wrote:Great shot! Great fish the ol' JP's. Have to look after them as they are a bit thin on the ground [or water!]

Not so thin on the ground around my neck of the woods but definitely still need to look after them.

Cheers, Rob.

I know exactly what you mean Bob, good bit of fun that .
You'll love having the 4" belt, makes all the difference.

Rob.

Hey Steve, getting excited yet mate? About when should I expect you?

Cheers, Rob.

Excellent work Rod, I knew you would come around to the curves in the end. A little more challenging, but what a great result. How do they shoot? Did you make two separate forms or just leave the limbs longer to get the different length bows? Don't usually use imported timbers but I bought my self a...

Great work Otis on both the draw knife and the build-along.

Rob.

I'd recommend the MC2 take down, the same one Graydon has. The Raptor is indeed a nice light bow to cart around the bush with a smooth, no stack draw to 31 inches but at 58 inches long I reckon you would start to hit the wall and get a bit of finger pinch at your 32.75" draw. I should also ment...

Hey Fraser, don't mean to blow my own trumpet but Flatline Bows are made for the longer draw. I draw 30 1/2 "s my son draws 31+"s and there's still nothing like stack at that length. I reckon I can build you one that'll do the job. I've also dropped the price on my bows by $200 to try to s...

Thanks fella's I'll go with that, it's destined for my next bow along with some really nice red Tulip Oak I've just milled up.

And here's a picture.
Rob.

Thanks blokes. what's that Rob!!!??? :mrgreen: Carbons and vanes!! :surprised: :mrgreen: :lol: . Hey Bob, carbons yes, vanes no, they're feathers mate, I just like the consistency of carbon arrows and if was gonna use woods I'd have to make them myself and just don't have the time to go down that ro...

Well here's a full draw pic. Turns out my draw length is 30 1/2 inches, an inch longer than I thought it was, the arrow in the pic is 33 1/2"s from knock to tip. Any way it draws smooth all the way to my draw and further, my young fella draws 31"s but he's a bit of a snap shooter so none o...

Hey Graydon, I'll write myself a note (I tend to keep my memory on bits of paper scattered around the house and car lately) and get the young fella to take a pic tomorrow.

Rob.

I was given a small log of this through a friend who got it from an old bloke that used to make knives but he doesn't know what it is and neither do I. It is quite heavy and hard, doesn't have a distinctive smell, has bark a bit like Ironbark and sapwood about 10-15mm thick. Someone said it could be...

Thanks fella's, You'll dam near get the hang of making these bows soon. :biggrin: :lol: Hey Butchy, Yeah mate starting to get the hang of it. Grassy reckons I should make a "man weight" Raptor and send it out to you so you can show it off to the blokes out in the Isa so they know what they...

longbow steve wrote: Would you be interested in a stave to try a selfbow? Cheers Steve

That would be great Steve, been thinking about having another go at a self bow lately.

Rob.

I must have misunderstood when we spoke on the phone the other day, I had the impression the crack was through the limb the other way, IE; perpendicular to the flat face of the limb. It appears to me the timber lamination it self has failed, not the glue, and failed over the end of the wedge which i...

Thanks Steve, Graydon and Jeff. [quote= Is the Tulip oak dyed or is that its normal colour? I assume it is native? Cheers Steve[/quote] That's it's natural colour Steve, one of many colour tones available, it's one of the reasons I love this timber. The timber used in this bow is about as light in t...

This has to be one of the prettiest bows I've made. It's for one of the doctors (Rob) I've done a lot of building work for over the last 15 or so years. last year I spent 5-6 months staying at his lakeside acreage on the tablelands in the small existing cottage while I built an opulent, two story, h...

Great work Chris, thats the way to blood a bow mate. Excellent goat.

Cheers, Rob.

Looks the goods so far Texx, steady as she goes matey, and watch the glass splinters . What draw weight are you aiming for?

Rob.

Nice one Texx. What are the bulbs you are using? Im gona run out of the old incandesant ones soon so need to look into alternatives.
As for the rubber band method I've never tried it, allways had doubts about maintaining even pressure over the whole bow,but others use it and have success.

Rob.

Thanks for the comments fella's. I have to get a virus removed from computer. Sorry to hear about your computer Bob, hope it's feeling beter soon. Mine came down with a life threatening illness a while ago but recovered well after a coarse of tecnobiotics. Another functional work of art and a really...

Back again. After waiting four days for the final coat to dry a string and bear hair style strike plate and arrow rest are installed and it’s time to put it through the crono. Twelve carbon arrows of 9 grains per pound of draw weight are shot and an average taken and this bow’s average speed is 190 ...

Dang Rob you've gone and gazumped me with that hairy oak. I am currently building a bow with hairy oak as belly veneers that's heading over seas.now its gunna look like I'm copying you!! :wink: :wink: :surprised: :surprised: :sad: :sad: :lol: :lol: :lol: Nice looking bow by the way, as always. Well...

Here's a thought Johno, if you drop the platform that the jack sits on to a point that when it is almost fully extended the deck is against the sanding wheel, the increment of adjustment will be less than when the jack is at a lower point of adjustment. Due to the design of the jack it has a reverse...

Continued from the edit of the last post. Then it’s on to the string groove overlays. I start with thin veneers about 2 mm thick, 135 mm long and wide enough to suit the limb width at the overlay’s widest point. These are tapered from half their length too nothing being careful to keep a nice square...

Hey Butchy, thanks for the plug. How's that quiver going, Grassy said it came up quite well.

Cheers, Rob.

Then it's a series of different grade strips of cloth backed paper, used in an omnidirectional manner. SDC11327.JPG After all the rough work is done the shelf is given a radius and beveled on the grinder. SDC11336.JPG SDC11355.JPG SDC11360.JPG And cleaned up with a file and 180 paper. SDC11363.JPG T...

SDC12474.JPG SDC12476.JPG The sight window is marked out and the material removed using a series of cuts with the hack saw (because of the glass in the riser) and a very sharp chisel. SDC12480.JPG SDC12484.JPG Tidied up on the lam grinder and the cleaned up with a bastard file. SDC12492.JPG Shaping...