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Thanks Guy, it looks a nice bow. Yes wood arrows; the only way to go.

Jeff

Good one Guy. What bow ya shootin mate?

Jeff

I hesitated replying to this as I can't resist saying no-one in their wildest dreams could think that bow was a longbow, surely! To me the limbs look even length and in the photos of the bow hanging by the pivot point of the handle it looks to be hanging at the half way point length wise. Photos at ...

Sorry to hear mate. I hope you do make yourself that tri-lam bow some day.

Jeff

That's a pretty poor life out of it Matt. Your post just might save someone else from experiencing the same.

Jeff

Looks good; nice wood combination.

Thanks Ron; it sure is in urgent need of attention. It looks like a Metters oven. To clean it up I would use a molasses bath or electrolysis as these methods will not harm the casting finish of the oven. DO NOT use sand blasting or grinding discs on angle grinders as these will damage the oven. If y...

woodie wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:58 pm 2 of the CI ovens are around 100 years old and big enough to fit a small lamb in as my grandfather did when he was a young man working on a station as a cook.

Hey mate would you be able to post up a couple of photos of those ovens please as I would love to see them.

Jeff

All good thanks mate. Yeah, the old ovens are getting hard to come by and can cost a bit but they are worth it IMO. Keep an eye out on your local buy, swap and sell pages and garage sales etc as they do come up. If you find one be sure to check it over carefully for hairline cracks; especially under...

G'day Guy, We cook with camp ovens all the time and have quite a collection. IMO the old style ovens (real camp ovens :biggrin: ), with domed lids and long legs are the best to cook with. However in saying that the Chinese made ones (mostly no legs) will cook a feed just the same. When purchasing ma...

Good onya Woodie.

Amazing how much it is moving about. Sounds like you have the right plan of attack though.

That sure was a lot of movement. Can you steam it or dry heat it back into line?

Nice work!

I can remember you shooting that bow Daryl back in the early 1980's at North Albert Bowhunters on Wembley Rd.

Jeff

TomMcDonald wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 4:05 pmEveryone was right handed back then.

Far from it Tom.

greybeard wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2019 2:28 pm Perhaps the ladies were ambidextrous and had left and right hand clamps.

Daryl, I was meaning all the arrows are facing to the left so the women would use their right hand to place the clamps on the jigs. As a left hander I would have the arrows facing to the right.

Jeff

Imagine sniffing all that glue. Looks like they only employed right handed people in there.

Can't help with that one Daryl.

G'day Bodie, The standard if you like is ⅜" above right angles to the shelf. This is if you shot Mediterranean release (split fingers). If you shoot three under someone else will have to step in and help with the measurement. Really it is just a matter of trying different heights by adjusting a...

The die hard wooden arrow fraternity tell us they are just as good as their modern counterpart but at most TAA shoots carbon/alloy arrows ect are not recognised . I personally would hate to see a separate division based on arrow material. We could end up like another archery association that has so...

Nah Matt I haven't as I still shoot the good old Ribteks. It's been awhile since I've sent one of those towards any game too.

There is special feel about a set of well crafted timber arrows that can’t be matched by synthetic arrows. Unfortunately, as the generation of our era pass on these crafts will probably be lost forever in Australia. It will be a sad day when the selfbow disappears. I agree 100%. Sadly, just like wi...

Fibre glass used in bows is considered to be traditional yet an aluminium arrow which predates fibreglass by ten years is not. IMO aluminium and fibreglass arrows are traditional but I just like shooting wood. The reason arrows made of those materials were not allowed at the Australian Longbow Must...

Some excellent shots there; thanks for sharing them.

I was having a look at the IFAA rulebook, for a completely different reason to Trad, and I noticed that IFAA does not recognise a hybrid/modern longbow: https://www.ifaa-archery.org/index.php/ ... es/longbow It would seem that they are put into recurve division (being a semi recurve that they are)....

Have your shafts within five pound spine weight and fifty grains in physical weight. I know some will say that is not close enough tolerances but I haven't met the archer who could shoot good enough to tell the difference. Me personally I have my arrows matched closer but that is just me being fussy...

Good one woody. That handle is interesting and I imagine it would be quite comfortable in the hand.

Congrats and enjoy your travels!!!

Jeff & Jude