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Advice on hickory/tigerwood warbow tiller
toomanyknots:
(sorry for going off topic before hand) Scott, I love your website! First off though, I should warn you, you might not want to link to it, or ask a mod if it is ok, as they are pretty strict about linking commercial sites, I don't care of course, but I was told by a certain mod if I linked to a certain site again I may be kicked off primitive archer for a bit, or maybe even permanently banned, so just wanted to give a heads up first. But anyway, I love your site! I have been messing with wordpress for a while, and I never have been happy with whatever sloppy looking site I come up with. It took me forever to just figure out how to convert my current theme from a blog into a sort of website look, and then learning about parent themes/child themes, etc. Did you use a certain theme, or tweek one of your own? I see it says your site was designed by elegant themes. Their site says that you have to pay 39 dollars, is that like a subscription costs?
(ok, back on topic)
I would recommend getting one of those mechanical hanging scales, the kind with the dial. I use a 45 dollar one I got off ebay, and it works great. I think it goes up to 220 lbs or so, maybe more. It works just fine for light bows up to warbow weight. You are obviously a very skilled craftsman, and I am sure you can make a fine bow too. Ipe can be all kinds of shades, real chocolately dark, redish, greenish even. It has a good possibility of being ipe coming from a decking project. If you get a really really good close up picture of the grain after it has been reducing to using a scrapper it might be possible to make a guess?
ScottRoush:
@WillS... duh. Why in the hell have I not thought of that? I've got some weights for that. I was going to stop by a local fishing outfitter to see if they carried big spring scales.. but this will do just fine.
@Toomany... I will contact mods immediately. I've always put my website in forum 'signatures'.. I thought that was what it was for! I'm just a one man operation and never thought of it as 'commercial'. But I will check. Thanks for the input on my site. Elegant Themes is a one time cost and you can use any of their themes once you pay. They look good but I still had some pro help to personalize it. Wordpress is slow but perfect for somebody that adds a lot of content to their site.
It was bowmaking that got me into blade making. I used to hang out on the Stickbow and Tradgang forum a lot.. and all the knife makers got me into it. And then I went nuts.
I kinda wondered if this stuff was just a reddish variant of ipe. The grain looks exactly like my dark brown ipe bow.
Thanks again for the input fellas. I can't wait to hang a weight from that string to see where I am.
(edit: Just removed my website. Sorry to the moderators for not reading the rules first!)
toomanyknots:
I've had reddish ipe before, to where I wash my hands after using it, and they are stained (as well as the sink) pink. Thank you for the info on the themes! I am not very tech savy. And I just thought of the rule about linking stuff from this thread Pat B recently posted:
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,44572.0.html
I honestly am not the kind of person to heckle people about rules that I have no right to say anything about, I just thought of it because the mods seem like they mean business lately, or else I wouldn't of said nothing. Your forging work is awesome. Do you make your own bodkins or anything?
Cameroo:
--- Quote from: toomanyknots on January 16, 2014, 12:47:11 am --- Do you make your own bodkins or anything?
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+1 :) A man with your setup and talent could likely hammer out a bodkin in 20 minutes or less with a bit of practice! Man, damascus bodkins... now that would be cool!
toomanyknots:
--- Quote from: Cameroo on January 16, 2014, 01:07:31 am --- Man, damascus bodkins... now that would be cool!
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Heck yes it would!
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