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loon:
Went to a horse archery clinic on Saturday. Lots of fun. Rode a horse twice, and also a trailer while sitting on hay bales, and shooting at targets. Most fun thing ever. I guess it's somewhat like a video game but much better because it's real. I'd love to get into horse archery more regularly...

Tried sharpening (re-grinding?) my Morakniv companion. I had done it all wrong. I made a double bevel on it, when the Scandi grind is supposed to be a flat grind. And I also screwed up the bevel in one side, so it's now hard to feel it exactly, it's all convex... Hopefully I can re-grind it with 120#, or with a file.. it's carbon steel..

osage outlaw:
Loon, what are you using to grind your blades?


Today I sorted through some staves I have stacked in a garage.  When I got to the bottom I found a surprise.  I guess he has spent the winter there.  I touched him and he spread his wings out and screeched at me.  We recently put doors on this garage so I moved him outside and put him in a safe area. 

chamookman:
Good move Clint - He'll eat lots of Skeeters this Summer ! Bob

Cyrille:
Not too much that is archery related. I did shoot my LB early this morning one six arrow flight before the gully wumper, frog strangling storm hit. It continued raining most of the day a soft, gentle rain after the wind quit.
 I try to get out and shoot every day but some days it just isn't in the cards. On good days I attempt to practice three or four hours depends on how this old body reacts to the endeavor. 

loon:

--- Quote ---Loon, what are you using to grind your blades?
--- End quote ---
A 120 grit water stone. This is the current state of my knife.

More screwed up side: (on one side, the grind was smoothed out, made sort of convex rather than flat as it's supposed to be, so it's now hard to feel the angle. I managed to do that just with the water stone.. and maybe a file)




This week, I bought various tools - a somewhat big Stanley surform, angle grinder, a Mora carving hook knife.. (first two from Lowe's)
I really don't like the surform. I even adjusted and tightened it, and it's still much slower than my Shinto rasp..
Still want a farrier's rasp, and an adze. Possibly a chisel-edge knife, for shaving wood in bamboo arrow's nodes and such. I think I'd like to go with just a flat grind chisel edge because it'd be very sharp and easy to sharpen, even if it'd need a lot of honing or even sharpening..

I also got some cheap diamond sharpening plates from Amazon for flattening the stones.

I've been trying to make a spine tester with some scrap pine and stuff, and a digital caliper. The rest for the caliper hasn't gone well. I think I should try to make another one, maybe. Need to find some pallets... hm, maybe I need a plane.

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