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Massey finish - two part epoxy and acetone
Muleman:
i agree 1000% with eric,allyn,and gut,i love hearing about these homemade recipes,thats what its all about!!
JW_Halverson:
Eric, I have run squash plants up into fencing, too. I thought I would need to make hammocks, but it turned out they could handle their own weight. Squash went from taking up 400 square feet of garden space to a mere 20 square feet for the same amount of produce! I have cukes on a trellis now, too.
Again, all grist for the mill in the end.
bownarra:
--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on August 19, 2022, 12:28:51 pm ---It is called hijacking a thread and taking it off the rails; "how about being a little more primitive?", I mentioned the excessively shiny finish in my answer.
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No matey that is how you interpreted the reply.
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--- Quote from: Allyn T on August 23, 2022, 10:31:16 am ---
--- 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.
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blah, blah.....kind of a stupid reply - why don't you grow all your own staves then ;)
I suggested buying epoxy based finishes because a) they are better b) messing with acetone isn't really my thing - you like breathing those fumes as it gases off?
To take your point a little further how many people make their own finishes, collect every
single resource they use to make bows oh and of course forge their own tools on a hand built forge.....I think you will find virtually everybody buys most/if not at least a lot of their stuff.
I would suggest this forum is going downhill fast - too many people too willing to get personal and start flinging nonsense about. Come on guys why not grow up and live and let live. Somebody offers a different opinion - so what - no need to get all arsey about it. Remember other people can also have experience and guess what they could also be better or worse at doing something than you.....
Lets get the ego's in check :)
peace out
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Allyn T:
--- Quote from: bownarra on September 07, 2022, 02:17:58 am ---
--- Quote from: Eric Krewson on August 19, 2022, 12:28:51 pm ---It is called hijacking a thread and taking it off the rails; "how about being a little more primitive?", I mentioned the excessively shiny finish in my answer.
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No matey that is how you interpreted the reply.
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--- Quote from: Allyn T on August 23, 2022, 10:31:16 am ---
--- 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.
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blah, blah.....kind of a stupid reply - why don't you grow all your own staves then ;)
I suggested buying epoxy based finishes because a) they are better b) messing with acetone isn't really my thing - you like breathing those fumes as it gases off?
To take your point a little further how many people make their own finishes, collect every
single resource they use to make bows oh and of course forge their own tools on a hand built forge.....I think you will find virtually everybody buys most/if not at least a lot of their stuff.
I would suggest this forum is going downhill fast - too many people too willing to get personal and start flinging nonsense about. Come on guys why not grow up and live and let live. Somebody offers a different opinion - so what - no need to get all arsey about it. Remember other people can also have experience and guess what they could also be better or worse at doing something than you.....
Lets get the ego's in check :)
peace out
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I would say the person calling my reply "kind of stupid" is the arsey one but hey that's my experience ; )
Also you said making your own finish was pointless, never mentioned fumes or it not being your cup of tea. The point remains however that doing things on your own is kind of the reason people are here. As for forging your own tools vs mixing two ingredients together, I'd say there is a disparity in the skill and difficulty requirements for those two.
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Pat B:
OK guys, lets quit bickering. If you don't agree with someone it's ok to disagree but then move on. You don't need to get the last word in.
I first heard about epoxy finishes(ie, Massey finish) from reading Jay Massey's books. He started using it because he mostly hunted in Alaska where the conditions are frequently wet and especially floating the Moose John River(fictional river but actual hunts). In one situation his boat flipped over and it wasn't until 3 days later that he found his bow down river and with little if any ill affects.
Simk, I don't know if you hunt where you live but frequently hunters are in situations where their bows get wet, either by hunting in the rain or, like Jay Massey, a bow falls in the water.
All of our main concerns are related to protecting our wood bows from moisture and it usually is water vapor rather than just water we should be concerned about. For years, Jay's go to bow finish was French polish, shellac and linseed oil and he was hunting Alaska then too...and most of Jay's bows were sinew backed so because of the hygroscopic properties of wood, sinew, hide glue and fish skin coverings a good moisture protection was and is by most of us, needed, whether we are hunters or not.
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