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Rod showed me his new linisher just after he got it , I was so impressed I asked him to adopt me but he reckoned he had too many kids already and was going to have to sell a few off to buy more bow building tools

David

Rod

Thank you for that ,

How did the hunting trip go and when you going to post pictures of your workshop

David

Here is a picture of the Dog " Mischief " it's NOT the one that got me into trouble and had the dog bouncing off the walls , Seems my wife went through and edited the album , she deleted any that made her look like she had wrinkles and the one that made Mischief look like she had been hit ...

Jeff No , didn't drown , just turns it's self off when you go to take a picture , tried fresh batteries but it still doesn't work , New camera , it's a Panasonic FS4 Lumix , it is 8.1 mega pixels with a 4x optical zoom , it has a large LCD viewer , large enough I can actually use it with out my glas...

Jeff Will hopefully be able to give you a report on it tomorrow , was handed to me this morning just before I had to take the cat into Tannum to the vet , only just got back and will probably have to go back in this afternoon to pick it back up so at this stage all I've had time to do was stick the ...

Jeff

Thanks , not too bad a day , scored a new camera

David

Mick

A man after my own , I also am a fan of traditional hunting tools like the No1 Mk3 of course I also use the traditional 30/06 as well . LOL

David

Toby While I have used Mortice and tenon and also dowels in the past I now mainly use my pocket hole jig for furniture , for the bench the frame is made up of 90x35 studs and have glued and screwed and used pocket holes in such a way to make it much stronger than I could with just mortice and tenon ...

Toby The work bench is pretty solid , it stands 950mm high and is 1000mm x 1950mm , the top is made up from 3 sheets of 18mm MDF , it takes 4 large men and a hernia just to drag it , I drew up the plans on my cad program but lost them when the old computer Harddrive died , I have the timber rack for...

Toby

Now I'm really jealous

David

Toby

I'm Jealous , That is a nice stack of timber , what sort is it

Kevin
Got to keep busy

David

Rod / Otis I'm far from neat and tidy , I work in this shop almost every day and I make lots of mess , I clean up once a week , the workshop is lined and tiled to make cleaning up easier , yesterday morning the sawdust and shavings were almost ankle deep from that bow I was making [ about a hour aft...

Brett Finger already thinks I suffer from OCD and he hasn't seen my workshop yet , wonder what his response is now . LOL

David

In the past I've been involved in forums where one of the favorite posts was one of workshop pictures , it's always good to see how other people setup their workshops to give us ideas as how to better our own , so I thought I'd give it a go here and see if I can get people interested in posting pict...

Hell Rod , your starting to give the impression your looking forward to it

David

Rod Right , couldn't remember if it was Sunday night or Monday night I talked to you on the phone as you were having your Birthday dinner with the family . must be getting old .LOL How are you coming with your new toy , getting used to it ? Probably won't be down Thursday and your hunting next week ...

Hey Rod Happy Birthday you old bugger , have a good one , sorry it's a couple of days late

David

Rod

Once again , very nice , but then it looked good even before you had it finished

Your making me look very slack , I need to get some of these other projects out of the way so I can catch up with you

David

I very much doubt that there would be any one named Wallace fighting for the English , not even any point searching

David

I use a hip quiver , one upon a time I used to make quite a lot of quivers and arms guards to pay for my archery addiction , I used to make about 4 kinds of back quivers and they were quite popular but I couldn't use any of them , this was due to some shoulder injuries , I find it difficult to reach...

You can make up a cutter like you would for strip cutting leather , you use a couple of blocks of wood and a blade from a Stanley knife

David

Build your own , it's not hard



David

Simon

When I used to use it for woodturning I just used to cover it in bees wax or furniture wax and sometimes Danish oil but have seen it covered in varnish

But remember unless the timber has a lot of tannin it just looks discoloured , best to test it on scrap

David

There is a process wood workers use called ebonizing , depending on the amount of tannin in the timber you are using you can get a dull grey to a rich dark black , It's been a few years since I used it last but it worked great with some timbers , to make the ebonizing fluid all you do is get some st...

Well I was down there yesterday when Brett started shooting his bow and it's a beauty , looks beautiful , I had a shot and it's a keeper , smooth to shoot , no stacking and no hand shock , no vices at all , my only complaint is Brett's arrows were too short for me , but then he probably wouldn't wan...

John

I've got to hear this one

David

Good one , she's a keeper

David

Don't know about normal packs but daypacks I do know about Over the years I've owned a lot of different packs and used a lot more that I've borrowed off others to try , and most of them have been good in their own right , had several packs with external frame and two of them I cut down to suit my ne...

G'day , I'm David I live in Miriam Vale Qld I'm 51 and have been shooting a bow since I was 19 , during that time I've mainly shot Recurve and Longbow and on the odd occasion a compound , I still have a compound but now I mainly use a 55# longbow that I made my self , I also use selfbows on the odd ...

Pretty much all through out recorded history the right to bear arms was the mark of a free man , I consider it a fundamental right that doesn't need to be written down and ratified by politicians I really have no problem with some one of sound mind and no criminal record owning as many firearms as t...