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Massey finish - two part epoxy and acetone

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Eric Krewson:
Some of us like to experiment with different things and don't feel like this type of piddling is "pointless". My piddling may be trying new garden techniques off the top of my head, food plot planting, bow making or flintlock building. I have come up with some new innovative stuff as well as plenty of complete failures.

The Massey finish I put on one bow might have cost me 20 cents, I have the materials in my shop all the time for other projects so buying anything else seemed "pointless" to me. I could mix up enough finish for a couple of bows in about 30 seconds, sure beats a trip to the store to buy a specialize finish.

Case in point; my tillering gizmo, I could tiller a bow just as well with conventional methods, I was experimenting with old ideas to come up with a new concept, this didn't seem "pointless" to me.

Here is my first workable gizmo, a far cry from what I ended up with, the brass screws hold the pencil in place, adjustment was very cumbersome and worked poorly.

Eric Krewson:
This is off topic but shows some of my piddling; a vertical cantaloupe patch, dang if it didn't work really well. I suspended the cantaloupes in a bird netting pouch held up with an S hook. I used a cattle fence panel attached to metal T posts for my trellis.

Allyn T:

--- Quote from: bownarra on August 23, 2022, 02:18:21 am ---You can buy epoxy based finishes no problem nowadays - you've just got to look! Kinda pointless making your own.

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Well then why make your own bow or pine pitch or arrow, you can buy all those things too.

gutpile:
whole point in doing it the hard way... agree with Allyn here.. gut

jimmi the sammi:
JW.  Got some bear fat too if you need it.
JtS

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