Recent content by j111

Actually I should come clean about this - I couldn't sleep as was too uncomfortable with no bedding, so bailed and went home for a beer and bed!

Good ideas mate - thanks.

Yes I think it's a little steep too. Will be harder to pile more leaves on top I think. Reckon a bracken bed would be a tick fest! Pine or spruce would be great but none of that around here unfortunately. Cheers.

Of course - thanks for the concern though!

Hi guys, I had a go at making a 'survival shelter' on Saturday with the last 4 hours of daylight. Here's the result (photos taken next morning): I ran out of time to make a heat reflector and finish the bed before dark. Any tips/suggestions for how to improve it? I was easily warm...

thanks that's interesting

Looks real good mate. Looks like a good thickness of sap wood, did you reduce it at all out of interest? Cheers,

Thanks dwardo. Phew that's roughly what I've done. I done one as a long bow at 1 1/2" and over 70" to avoid knots and as an experment so will probably set out to make that one a lighter draw. Is there a way to select ash with a low RPI count prior to cutting it down? The woods I cut trees...

I've just roughed out a couple of staves in ash with very close rings, so much so I can hardly count them and a third from ash with a ring count of about 20/ inch. I was hoping for about 50lbs. Should I treat them any differently or would you expect them to fail? Cheers

That's good to know as hazel like that is readily available and I can turn my attention away from the ash.. Did you have to de-crown it? I couldn't quite tell from the photos..

Looks nice that. What dia trunk was it made from?

I'll probably give that a go at some point. The bow has been living in the shed so probably worth bringing in the house isn't it to properly dry out to start with. In the mean time I will start on one of the other staves. Do you have any tips on how to approach to twistedness of them? should I...

Thanks for info. Really useful. Reckon it may be over-strained, it's taken on that set as I've finished off tillering over the last few weeks? It does seem to bend a lot for a shortish bow, I didn't think I'd get full draw length out of it. Is heat-treating corrective to set? Presumably I could...

Cheers. I've made one bow out of green hazel before in an afternoon which didn't work out very well..

Hi All, I've just finished making my first bow and am looking for some feedback and tips to make the next one better. The bow is ash that was felled in the spring. I roughed it out at the time and then left it for a few months before working on it off and on over the next few months. I shaped...