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Just having a well aimed shot at my own bow making limitations

Only one, but it will take 3 months to make the jig.

Beats soap on a rope. Actually, my kids gave me some craft stuff they had done which was a hoot.

Steve- that is a Frogmouth in your avatar? I had a pair in a she-oak inmy garden for months, but now there is only one - hope the other didn't come to a sticky end.

Mine was also my daughter's 2nd birthday. Did presents, cooked a breakfast bbq, did a laminate glue-up on a greybeard style bow (used titebond II and the boo delaminated for the second time), went down to the lake, played cricket, bounced a soft plastic around the rocks near the dam wall (ducks eggs...

Nice piece of kit Daryl - very impressive.

Hi Might be a bit late on this - I have been quiet working on a bow - (thanks to Greybeard and Yeoman for the help too) but I have been building one that is akin to a Greybeard design - spotted gum core and bamboo for the back and the belly and using Titebond II the joins have failed twice in gluing...

Nice one Dave. 6 hours and it is complete. I spend a weekend and get firewood, splinters, woodshavings for the boys next door who keep pet rats....Oh and experience.

More like creak and bang. Went off with a hell of a crack. Startling to say the least.

Tragedy - the ELB busted during tillering - I had backed it with bamboo, but think I was asking a bit much of the timber, given its length.

Still, I enjoyed the process. Better luck next time I hope.

There is a book re Crossbows by Frank Bilson, if you can get it, which shows how to make a prod - I also have a 'self sufficiency' book with similar plans in.

I would like to see progress too! lol Thanks for the help this morning too Dave. I did some roughing out - and had an episode with an insect while using the bandsaw. My fingers are intact but what was to be an ELB at 68"ntn will now be a short hunting bow...about 60" ntn - I'm going to bac...

Finally - took the plunge and went out to the timberyard and got an Ironbark board - 1.8x120x30 which, if I am careful I can get a couple of bows out of - maybe three. I searched through a few boards and while the grain is not perfect, it should be OK with backing. And if I am going to make mistakes...

Gday

I picked up the 14" last night. I'll be getting a new blade this weekend and then do some setting up - an instrument maker friend knows how to 'fettle' a bandsaw.

I'll post some piccies of the beast, along with any progress with the bow project I've promised myself to do.

Thanks to all for advice on this - I have just been given first refusal on Gilbert and Weston 14" (1989 model) for $250 - deceased estate of a toymaker - in good cond and runs well.

Won't be too long before my first effort is posted here (and I'll hopefully still have all my fingers)

Cheers Eddy - thats a good call - actually its only about 70 bucks because the 10" is $329 - I'll check out the 14 and see how it fits in my space - my working area is a corner of the garage and I need something I can move around with a degree of ease - the 10" only weighs 35kg and is on i...

He's flying a little low too. For goodness sakes, I thought this was a family site!

I have the Carbatec catalogue with me here- and just visited the Canberra store - there is a model, the SW-1401 in 14" that goes for $529 - and I think there may be a deal available on that to go for $500. As a mate of mine has a 14", and I have other little projects on, I think I am going...

I thought I would post this here, as it is the part of the site I am most absorbed in at the moment. I have learned more from reading the various posts just here (and in a run of emails - thanks Yeoman in particular), that I am now as a Newbie feeling a lot more confident about starting to build. He...

That is for roughing out the limbs on a ballista

Thanks for all the advice on this - I'll keep shopping around. I don't think I've seen a Ryobi 9" (have not seen one in 10" or above) for under about $230. I do have limited space in my shed/garage, so I can't get anything too big (on that wise, the 'leader of the opposition' seemed to thi...

Good afternoon Am new to this site, but note that a fair few of the threads on construction refer to bandsaw use - and it being a godsend. I don't own one, having done a couple of smaller bows the hard way, but am now moving onto something a little more my size. What would be about the ideal make/si...

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I have used both .357 and .38 -slipped over field points. It works pretty well. I didn't experience the problem of the point pushing out the primer though - but that is not to say it won't happen.

Afternoon First off, for a newbie, this is a great site for tips and queries - already this morning I've followed up on a couple of things and its worked wonders. I started off on a piece of privet a whiles back. Unfortunately during the tillering it broke - beginners luck - but it showed a deal of ...