Ozbow

Kim Already sold it about two months ago , and it was in perfect condition , Hennessy have been having a special on over Christmas where if you bought one hammock worth over $100 they threw in a free Scout hammock and snake skins , that was the deal I took for my new Safari , the Scout is plenty big...

I just took delivery of my Hennessy Safari deluxe about two weeks ago , it replaces my Hennessy Expedition that I've out grown [ gotten too fat for ] and it's brilliant

David

John Not a place I'll ever see , I only go where the main language is English , [ of course that probably means I can't visit Sydney or Melbourne either ] and I don't know what the hell they call it there but it don't sound like English to me , hell after 30 years I still can't understand half of wh...

I'm 6'1" and 108 kg , I just sold my Hennessy Hammock Expedition model because I'm getting a little on the big side for it , the expedition is rated for 6' and 115 kg , but the new hammock I intend to get is the Hennessy SAFARI DELUXE A-SYM HEX and it's made for over 6' and up to 160 kg and mos...

John

When you emailed me about your thread find you didn't mention where you got it from , my father in law actually worked there at one time and my wife was born in Banbridge , of course they left there over 40 years ago .

David

Rod

Love your new grinder , think I'll make one up for my self

David

How about the traditional Brno .22 ?

David

Rod Yup , self delusion is a wonderful thing , I thought I only looked 50 but I've been asked for my seniors card twice last week and the day I was down seeing you I looked in on a mob selling Camper trailers , the salesman come over and started talking and said " this is a very popular model w...

Happy birthday Rod , 150 , jesus mate your holding your age well , you don't look a day over 57

David

The SSAA has been warning this was going to happen for many years and asking shooters to take out licenses for years to keep the numbers up , the drought hasn't helped as many of the keen Queensland hunters have been going south of the boarder and taking up licences there

David

Dave Think the pending projects may take a little longer than 20 minutes but I do want to get them done over the winter as I want to devote the spring and summer to more interesting things like fishing , kayaking , shooting and of course archery , I have a number of bows I want to build as well as s...

Trouble is that I tend to be a obsessive builder , I just have to build , I just ordered a couple of hundred dollars worth of stuff from 3 rivers but my wife made me drop the tins of Smooth -on and glass laminations off the list as she reckons I have enough to do already and I need to get it out of ...

Rod

Yeah it is , the trouble is that it's adictive , the only problem I have now is explaining to my wife why I need a dozen more

David

Moss

Good Job , let us know how it shoots , what poundage is it and how long ?

A bamboo backed bow is on my to do list

David

Simon , thanks Got to admit that I do like Actionwood , even like the camo version , I like real timber better but want to choose it my self Jeff , thank you , no problem on not likening action wood , I think I told you of my plan to use some of the Spur mahogany , Sally Wattle and Quinine I have fo...

Looks great David - you didn't mention this on the phone the other day! John , Sorry , thought I did , but then I really don't have much in the way of a memory these days and I'm easily side tracked Moss , I use a lot of machinery and very few hand tools , I have multi-tool on a bench grinder and a...

All up there is probably some thing like 20 hours because I work slow and was really un-sure what I was doing , there was over 4 hours of final finish sanding , I figure I could probably halve the time with more experience ,

David

ichiban , thanks , I'm reasonably happy with it for a first go , I learnt a lot doing it , the next one I build with be with a Howard Hill type grip which I prefer , but didn't want to wander too far from the Bingham's instructions for the first one Don't know how it shoots yet , haven't fired it , ...

Finished my first Laminated Longbow yesterday , Jeff reckons I should post the results so here goes The bow is 68" nock to nock , it has a grey actionwood riser with brown actionwood laminations with black fibreglass , it weighs in at 55 lb at 28" , the tip overlays are Quinine with Desert...

Looseplucker Have no problem with sending you one for free but it may be a couple of weeks as all my gear is bunched up in the corner of the shed at the moment so I had room to bring in my posts to weld cleats on to them and make up some brackets for the extension , I'm in the process of extending m...

Jeff I looked up their site , I may be going down that way in a month or two , it may be best to have a look at that place in person , I notice they also have bamboo plants , one of them being Pseudosasa japonica [ arrow bamboo ] , I love bamboo and have about 13 or 14 plants around the yard , but o...

Jeff your only about 200 km south of me so can you suggest a source for timber or local timbers suitable for laminations down your way , I get down that way reasonably often and you seem to have a pile of saw mills down there Yep was working on the idea of staggering my laminations , figured it woul...

I've tried several methods one was using two 1 metre lengths of 40mm x 19 mm hardwood and putting a spacer between one end to give me the right taper but I didn't find any of those ways successful , as the timber tended to bow slightly , I think it could be made to work with a bit of tinkering but I...

Steve Thanks , for the most part I think I'll eventually be using Vertical bamboo flooring but have some very nice pieces of Spur Mahogany and Sally Wattle that would make very nice risers , I sort of discounted them for laminations because the grain wasn't straight enough but they would be very nic...

Well it's been 5 months now and I still haven't started my long bow . a number of other projects like building my brothers house , building a 7.7 metre outdoor kitchen , several furniture projects and starting the extensions on my shed sort of got in the way , I did get my laminations and fibreglass...

I bought a carbide blade for my bandsaw from a mob called Ace Grinding in Bundaberg , they were a hell of a lot cheaper than any where else I got prices from , don't remember the price off hand but it was about a third of what was quoted most places , I used it to cut all the Hebel blocks when I bui...

Grahame The Gladstone range is only half a hour up the road from me , I've talked to some of the members from time to time and they seem like good people , I wouldn't mind having a look at one of their Longbow and recurve musters , don't know if I'd bother shooting though , these days I find being a...

Jeff Thanks , I'll pass that on to my mate I hate political correctness , these days when some one tells me I'm not politically correct I tend to take that as a complement , the two main reasons I stoped shooting competition many years ago was because at a Interclub shoot at the Grange Bowhunters a ...

Jeff It looks like I won't be worrying about clear glass then , I'd much rather go for reliability than looks , seems like the glass with scrim is getting harder to find and if a bow I made developed cracks it would annoy me no end so better to not use it , I do plan on making a takedown recurve jus...

Gentlemen It looks like I have a long road of learning and experimentation in front of me , as I said before I have John Clarks booklet and the Bingham's plans and DVD's , can any one recommend any other books or DVD's on making laminated bows , I generally find it easier and cheaper to learn from o...