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That is definitely a work of art Rob, I don't think I could part with it personally. Good luck

Done well, very sweet bow

Awesome Job Wayno, very dark and mysterious......That name suits it perfectly. A few arrows a day and you'll be soon shooting it like your lighter bows I'm sure

Very curious about this build. Looking forward to see the finished bow

Cheers guys, now to plan the next one. Maybe a 40 pounder

I needed to source some leather for the grip and I was lucky enough to score a $5 leather couch of Bidding wars on Facebook. Was going to strip the whole thing of leather but have just removed the back section for the moment. 20160506_091408_resized.jpg 20160506_174857_resized.jpg Have cut out and s...

Looks Awesome...Well done

Cheers People

It now has a couple of coats on it.

Only 7kms down the road and I'll be 3000km away that weekend.

That is proper ****, Usual idiots shooting field points, poor old Curlew

Nice dog you got there Axe, Well done on the bunny

Nice, now the chewing and digging begins. Have fun.. I picked up a 12 month old Bull Mastiff recently. Now my lawn is constantly covered in sticks, logs, shoes, water bottles, a bag of wetta soil he dragged out of the shed the other day and the list goes on. At least Border Collies are very smart, h...

The veneers were about 13mm when the pieces are all glued together. Then I turn it on the its side and put through the bandsaw. They were then put through the drum sander until they were 0.6mm / 23thou. Next thing is to work out how to do the leather grip having never done that either. More research...

Made the venners

So I've made my first takedown R/D Bow. Its 62" and came in at 69lbs@31" so far. Got a bit fancy with the veneers as I wanted something to help break up the bows outline when hunting. The veneers are Blue gum, Jarrah and Sheoak. The riser is Western Woody Pear, Tuart And Jarrah With 2 bits...

Thanks for the explanation gents, have definitely been doing the later as far as predicting weights.

Cheers

Good to hear.

Yeah ok. Cheers

I just measure my total stack at the point where my riser fades finish. When I taper my laminations they only start to taper at the fades also.

Raw? Maybe

Was going to do that Greybeard but would have got fiddly with the fine tapers. Got no problem using the 3.3mm lams. Just got the feeling when i flexed them in an arc on the bench last night that there getting close to their limits. For example, I don't think my 66" bow with a stack of .525 woul...

I Really like the black wattle veneers. Top job

Just gluing up another bow and was planning on using 3 bamboo laminations each at 2.2mm (86thou). Unfortunately I noticed they all had splits in the orginal glue joints so decided not to use them. As it turns out I had 2 lams sitting there at 3.3mm (129thou) so have decided to use them. These will b...

Bugga

WA Sheoak is a hardwood. Certainly not at the top end though. I guess only time will tell if its up to the job.

Had a look over your Facebook page, you have some very nice bows there mate.

Hey Greybeard, your on the money again mate. Not a hope in hell of stringing it with out the stringer. Even then you need to be switched on. Don't usually use s stringer with any of my bows but have no choice with the BoSS. Have made a couple of 12 strand strings for it but got side tracked last nig...

Taking it up to Carnarvon in 3 weeks for a test run on goats.

Even made the fades longer
Very quiet to shoot. Just need to make it a new string.

So everything has worked out this time round. Very happy with bow finish and performance. Glued it up on boxing day. WA Sheoak veneers and riser. 66" ntn 74#@31" Bare shafted some arrows and it shoots 250 spine widow makers weighing 620gn at 200fps. Should do the trick on the bigger game. ...

They look great Rod, very nice work mate