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by GrahameA
Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:49 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Evening Sue. ... There are claims that opening it up to all inclusive will somehow increase the numbers, ... I would like to see an example where opening up divisions has resulted in an increas of attendees. The other year AA created a 70+ division. Outcome nil change. There is a suggestion that per...
by GrahameA
Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:36 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Afternoon. ... I can appreciate the attractions of carbons, they are fairly robust for target practice, and often little thought has to be put into them, when you can pick them up ready made off ebay or aliexpress out of China for like $2 ea. Who wouldn't want a cheap supply of ready made, semi disp...
by GrahameA
Thu Sep 22, 2016 5:45 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Shield cut or Parabolic for Broadheads
Replies: 15
Views: 4777

Re: Shield cut or Parabolic for Broadheads

Morning All.
greybeard wrote: ... Did you hear the archers release? ... ... Perhaps the hunters release is more of a noise issue than the feather profile.
I concur. :-)
by GrahameA
Wed Sep 21, 2016 2:46 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Shield cut or Parabolic for Broadheads
Replies: 15
Views: 4777

Re: Shield cut or Parabolic for Broadheads

Afternoon. ... i noticed when at Rob's on sunday that i could hear the arrows flying by quite clearl... The noise you are hearing is energy. That energy is being removed from the arrow .. the fletches are vibrating. If one arrow, for the same velocity, is noisier it is using up more energy ie tge ar...
by GrahameA
Sat Sep 17, 2016 7:34 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Morning Clingish. Rules are essentially an agreement amongst people concernning how something is conducted. Clubs/people who have Trad events decide on a set 'Rules' and run the event to them. Clubs (usually) have the freedom to set whatever rules they wish. People have the choice to attend or not. ...
by GrahameA
Fri Sep 16, 2016 8:39 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Morning All. ... A club and its members who volunteer their hard work and time, make the rules of a shoot . If you like the rules, then go enjoy yourselves. If you don't like the rules DON'T GO. ... but leave the Trad scene alone. It aint broke and it don't need fixing. I agree. If someone wants to ...
by GrahameA
Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:21 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Morning. ... i made almost exactly the same comments about a year ago (maybe less) i shoot range of different bows and i prefer carbon arrows. so i raised the idea of a simplified set of rules that were more inclusive ... i learned that i shoot what i shoot where i'm allowed to shoot it. would i lik...
by GrahameA
Tue Sep 13, 2016 7:35 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Morning. Yeah Grahame the 6 month itch. Yep. Irrespective what is written/proposed/complained about there is an extremely small chance of anything being done. I have been a member of this forum for over 10 years. I have seen Trad events grow. I have seen large amounts of words written about Rules, a...
by GrahameA
Sat Sep 03, 2016 12:51 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Afternoon. ... Oh and I'll just sit in the corner and keep my opinions to myself. Heaven forbid I upset you. That will achieve nothing. The simple reality with all of this is that there is an expectation that someone should/will do it. If 'people' do not like the way things are then they should chan...
by GrahameA
Sat Sep 03, 2016 7:27 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Morning All. 5 months -- almost 6.. yep about due. Having seen this subject raised a few times I might try a different approach in a reply. ... An open class is simple to implement and would encourage more people to participate. ... Is it? Why have you, not someone else, not done it? Would it encour...
by GrahameA
Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:19 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Bronze at Rio
Replies: 2
Views: 1644

Re: Bronze at Rio

Morning.
slayer wrote::Bow congrats to our boys at Rio got the bronze medal. Well done!!!!
Yes, they shot exceptionally well.

All archery will reap benefits. http://www.archery-forum.com/showthread ... 50f115eb48
by GrahameA
Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:13 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Making father and son wood recurve bows
Replies: 7
Views: 3145

Re: Making father and son wood recurve bows

Afternoon.

[quote="deldridg"]... Have just ordered "The Design and Construction of Composite Recurve Bows" ...quote]

Now for the good news. If you follow John's words you will end up with a good working usable bow .. plus a whole stack of knowledge. :-)
by GrahameA
Mon Jul 18, 2016 9:08 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Making father and son wood recurve bows
Replies: 7
Views: 3145

Re: Making father and son wood recurve bows

Morning. My $0:02. Olde time longbow 'Rule of Thumb'. Length of bow equals 'Height of archer plus a fistmele'. Experience suggests that a bow that suits a growing person one month will be too short a year later - if that long. A bow that is over-length is better than one that is short. Bow performan...
by GrahameA
Fri Jul 08, 2016 11:19 am
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Aussie Arrow Timbers
Replies: 17
Views: 7295

Re: Aussie Arrow Timbers

Morning. I haven't really made the foray into timber shafts as I am time poor. I was just pondering. It would be fantastic if we had something local that would be good even if it was just to use as footings. It is dependent on what you want to achieve with the footings. I seek mass and strength. I h...
by GrahameA
Thu Jul 07, 2016 6:52 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Medieval target arrows
Replies: 16
Views: 6151

Re: Medieval target arrows

Morning. ... Since there are no examples of medieval longbows existing its hard to make a replica medieval bow... one would assume . ... Perhaps swing by Order of St Knud camp at the Abbey over the Weekend ... The best you can do for medieval bows is a combination of an 'educated guess' and interpre...
by GrahameA
Wed Jul 06, 2016 8:24 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Medieval target arrows
Replies: 16
Views: 6151

Re: Medieval target arrows

Evening. ... Second thoughts, if footed shafts are period correct maybe I need to get one made up for display at the Abbey over the weekend... :biggrin: If you are going 'period correct' then the arrows should match the bow should match the 'time'. As an example Steve Stratton had some footed arrows...
by GrahameA
Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:53 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Medieval target arrows
Replies: 16
Views: 6151

Re: Medieval target arrows

Afternoon All Hi I had a few arrows with broken tips - so I used this guide I found. The were goldtip cedar arrows - I used forest red gum for the footings. My woodwork skill are mmm average at best - yet found this easy to do by hand. http://lochac.sca.org/bacchus_wood/A&S/A%20Set%20of%20Period...
by GrahameA
Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:50 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Medieval target arrows
Replies: 16
Views: 6151

Re: Medieval target arrows

Afternoon. I've been playing around with footing shafts Grahame, but its quite tricky doing it all by hand. Seen plenty of folks do them with router tables and what not but I don't have access to those tools. I imagine many hours would go into doing them tho. Something to move on to next! You don't ...
by GrahameA
Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:30 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Medieval target arrows
Replies: 16
Views: 6151

Re: Medieval target arrows

Afternoon. ... Each arrow took about an hour to make so quite time consuming. ... Try making a set of footed arrows and minimising the mass spread across the set next time. They will consume a few more hours. Probably will not shoot that much better but they will look good. It is all a learning expe...
by GrahameA
Wed Jun 29, 2016 5:21 pm
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: spotted gum near completion
Replies: 5
Views: 2736

Re: spotted gum near completion

Afternoon. My $0:02 Enjoy the bow. Spotted Gum will make a bow and a good one at that. More are destroyed through incorrect stringing than anything else. The next most common killer is chasing performance and overstressing the bow. Once you get them working and treat them kindly they last an amazing...
by GrahameA
Wed Jun 15, 2016 11:13 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: RSPCA want Arrows Tracked in Queensland
Replies: 17
Views: 6475

Re: RSPCA want Arrows Tracked in Queensland

Morning Rod. Been thinking about this. If all mass produced arrows had a traceable serial number, that would probably cover 99% of the cases where some idiot has .... Ignoring the legislation issue for the discussion and just consider the mechanics. Traditional wood arrows represent a small percenta...
by GrahameA
Sat Jun 11, 2016 1:03 pm
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: RSPCA want Arrows Tracked in Queensland
Replies: 17
Views: 6475

Re: RSPCA want Arrows Tracked in Queensland

Afternoon All. Stepping back a bit and looking. Every year we see articles/reports in the media of various animals getting killed. Such events do no good for archery. That other bodies/groups decide to take action should come as no surprise. If there were no reports of animals being shot with arrows...
by GrahameA
Mon May 30, 2016 6:23 pm
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Anyone ever tried horn as a belly?
Replies: 19
Views: 5573

Re: Anyone ever tried horn as a belly?

Deer Sinew

Try your local traditional chinese medicine supplier.

eg
http://www.btrt.com.au/en/product/deer-sinew
by GrahameA
Sat May 07, 2016 6:57 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Morning All. This is my take. This topic has been discussed at length multiple times. Search the threads for what has been said in the past. If people want to change 'The Rules' the only thing stopping them is their lack of willingness to put in the effort to get other people to agree. I suggest you...
by GrahameA
Fri May 06, 2016 6:46 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: Having a B**ch
Replies: 50
Views: 16474

Re: Having a B**ch

Morning.

I am with Ron.

The topic of Trad Rules come around every six months and there is a wide range of opinions. However, there is an extreme lack of people willing to put in the work to get a consensus.
by GrahameA
Sun Apr 24, 2016 8:51 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Maximum thickness you've made an individual lamination
Replies: 11
Views: 3742

Re: Maximum thickness you've made an individual lamination

Morning All. There are a couple of different ways you can design/predict things. A method is to build something, compare it to what is desired, if it matches good if not modify it and repeat. Eventually you, hopefully, come up with design/dimensions that work. If you want something different you sta...
by GrahameA
Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:28 am
Forum: Traditional Tackle
Topic: Bamboo?
Replies: 1
Views: 1825

Bamboo?

Morning All. If you have followed Daryl's post over the years you will have noticed he promotes Bamboo. In his hands it produces outstanding bows. For those who are interested in Howard Hill and his bows you may be interested in this post on Tradgang. http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=g...
by GrahameA
Sun Apr 17, 2016 11:58 am
Forum: Shooting The Breeze
Topic: The search function.
Replies: 4
Views: 2420

Re: The search function.

Morning Rod. When I do a search, have a look at one of the results and try to go back to search for different words, I get a message saying the search function is not available at this time. The function is usable maybe 5 minutes later, but never immediately following a search. Does anyone know how ...
by GrahameA
Sun Apr 10, 2016 7:01 am
Forum: Traditional Crafts
Topic: Macassar Ebony and the Brown Widow.
Replies: 13
Views: 5379

Re: Macassar Ebony and the Brown Widow.

Morning All. .... The bow was laid up on the form, [a copy of Black Widow 70’s bows] I built in 2009. .... Something to consider. Both Daryl and I own older Black Widow bows. Dig through the archives if you want to see them. Daryl's Black Widow was designed in the 1960s. Both of us hold an opinion t...