Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Canoe on February 21, 2010, 06:36:14 pm
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Howdy Radius, Aero, Hillbilly and others,
So, there I was in the basement, heating and straightening boo sticks for arrow making when the wife came home early yesterday. She smelled smoke, Again. And boy! Was she mad >:( !! (I am (was) using a small oil lamp as heat). She lit into me all about what she meant when she asked me, the first time, to "NOT do that in the house!" And, I was really holding me own in that argument, "Yes Dear," "Yes Dear," "Yes dear." :-\
Anyway... (More importantly), I got about five boo sticks really, really straight and about three sticks pretty straight before she stopped me. I'm enjoying this arrow making aspect of the whole bow and Arrow addiction very much. And, I can't wait 'til it gets warm enough for me to take my toys outside to play.
Well, I'll be looking to spine test and then cut (to length) those straightened boo sticks. Questioned; someone on here said that I need to spine these arrows about 10 lb.s over because they are tapered. Is this correct? So, for my 48lb. bow, I need to spine to 55 - 60lb.s? I will appreciate your feed back / guidance.
Thanks and All the Best,
Canoe
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I believe proper spine also depends on how wide your handle is, or how far your arrow pass is from the centerline of your string. You need a weaker spine to paradox around the handle.
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It depnds on a lot of factors. There's another website that has a lot of info abck spining an arrow for your bow. I know the link but I don't know if I can post it. Anyways, ain't my fault your getting "burned". Hehe. If your having trouble with that, get a two setting heat gun from lowes. Use the low setting. The only small amount of smoke I get is if I don't clean up the nodes well first.. but that's it. With the heat gun you really have to be trying to scorch as well.
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I Love my wife....
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Canoe,
You can make it up to her by getting a feather burner. It is very aeromatic >:D
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So does this mean an indoor shooting range is out of the question?
I use the new kitchen table all the time. I didn't even get in trouble for the epoxy. :-*
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So does this mean an indoor shooting range is out of the question?
I use the new kitchen table all the time. I didn't even get in trouble for the epoxy. :-*
he he i can do what i ant,where i want in the house too
yup as long as its ok with the wife i can do it ;D
seriously she realy dont have a problem with anything i do in the house as long as i clean up after myself
and i dont use pine pitch in the house
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My basement is my "man cave" I do what I want down there. The wife can have the upstairs.
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my lovely wife sent me to 3rivers . She told me to go and buy those silly sticks and stop smelling up the house!!!!!!!
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Grind some horn or antler on a beltsander in the basement, and she'll be glad to let you straighten arrow shafts instead. >:D ;D
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What Hillbilly said! She'll be begging you to go back to the arrow shafts!
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Grind some horn or antler on a beltsander in the basement, and she'll be glad to let you straighten arrow shafts instead. >:D ;D
;D ...making the wife choose between the lesser of the two evils... BRILLIANT! ;D
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...just be sure that if you decide to temper a new knife blade in the oven, that you fully, and I mean FULLY remove all the quenching oil first.....lol
...aren't our wives just angels!
j
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Yeah, do like Hillbilly said, only go to the pet store, and get some hoofs, and some of the reddish bones, with some material still attached to it, and grind away.....oh, and eat lunch an hour or so before you do this.......or you could just go Hmmmpff!! you just can't seem to understand my masculine needs!! and stomp off to the yard to pout! Or you could just give a big sigh now and then, and act restless......till she finally asks what the h@#$ is wrong, and you can just say......Nothing......nothing that you would understand.......Then go buy that heat gun!! ;) But at least you can have some fun, and a bit of back at ya, attitude..... ::)
Let us know how that works out...... ;D ;D
Wayne
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im with mullet, burn some feathers and she'll be begging for wood smoke.
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Boy, does this sound familiar. I can't bust glass cause the wife stepped on a chip.... well, it was the third flake that kind of put her over the edge. She really doesn't understand "If you knap obsidian, you will bleed." Actually, she put a whole new spin on the saying for me. SawFiler, you are lucky. I sure wish I had a man cave.
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Dang, Steven, Doesn't your Wife have shoes? ::) You know it's like that toilet seat bit, just look where you sit, and if you go outside, or where there is knapping going on, wear shoes. ;) Women! It's that weird feminine logic. I mean, yeah, most of the time they arrive at the same conclusions, but it's just that they take the scenic route to get there, and by that time, the logical conclusion is usually no longer important. By the time a woman gets to a logical conclusion, the man has been there, and is off to solve another problem. ;D
P.S Steven, were I you, I wouldn't have bothered to post this, it shows your collar marks. See if you had just kept quiet, the rest of us would have never known. ;) ;D Truth be known Shannon probably doesn't have a man cave, but he was smart enough to say he does...... ;) ;D What? Oh, nah, I'm not married...... ;D
Wayne
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hehe, thats funny guys. i was married, once.. i dont know if i ever will again. but my house is too small for a man cave. i think i need to buy some land somewhere and build a man cave and keep my house in the city..
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my man cave is is my yard and the living room when the wife is in town as long as i get it cleaned up before she gets home she will never know Sssshhhhhhhh ;)
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Stickbender, just to clarify... she stepped on the flakes in the house. It was those little bitty glass flakes you get when you are putting an edge on obsidian. The ones that are about the size a fleas arss. Best I can figure is they were inside my shoes shoes or cloths or stuck in my waistband and falling off in the house. And yea, I'll admit it, sometime the collar gets a bit tight. But that is part of being married. And besides, you know how it is... if Mom ain't happy, nobody is happy. Expecially when she is picking glass our of her foot. Besides, I don't sleep well on the couch. ::)
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Steven, you should have picked it out for her and then followed up with a glass of wine and a foot massage. ;)
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Oh, yeah, Steven, those are also the ones that will cut you when you don't see them stuck to the pad, while you are working. I have cut my foot, by having some in my shoe. I was changing pants, and emptying out my pockets, and they were full of flakes.....Now, go back and look at Eddie's ( Mullet ) post. You can learn something from him on that. ;) See you missed a chance to make up for the flake cutting her, and for getting points for being so concerned, and thoughtful by bringing her a glass of wine...... ;D Eddie has his Man cave outside. He used to have a Man cave in the house.......but it's now a daughter cave....... ::) But he still has his retreat out back, where he can knapp, and saw, and scrape, and fart, and all will be well, with an ice cold beer, in the Man cave refrigerator. You see he had a back up plan. Aero86, that is an excellent idea. 8) In case you should have a guest over, and she comments on how neat the place is and none of the clutter, and bows, and staves, and rock that her silly ex boyfriend had in his place...... ::) So while she is thinking ......"Gee, is this the one......no pieces of ol rock, or wood, or archery stuff, or that horrible hunting stuff, skins, and pieces of bone, and snake skins.....but I better be sure, and so I will have to see if he has a Man cave around here somewhere......no, not in the closet......wow, I don't think he has a Man cave, oh, my ......this could be the one, now for the training......ok, first on the list, Toilet seats, then clothes he wears, then the decor, and furniture......" So while you are enjoying her company, and her attentions, you can bide your time till it is time to bring home a fresh skin, and hear her say it's either the skin, or me, and you can say, gee, here I was hoping you were going to be here to help me stretch this one......Then it is off to the Man cave, for a celebratory beer, and some scraping, and knapping. Then back to the peace and quiet of the sleeping and eating place. ;) ;D
Wayne
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Wayne, You need to talk to Gayle, David Tiller's girlfriend. :D :D :D :D :D :D