WHAT DID YOU MAKE TODAY?
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Fires bolts or arrows some distance! Nicely made, lots of care, but I cannot work out the elastic, seems to be going the wrong way?
Wonder how long I'd get inside for having that in the UK?
Cool, thanks for the hand and the feedback. Now that I got that figured out, I'll see what I can do to get more up. Got some cool slo mos with me using it too.
Thanks man. This is my first serious one after tinkering with a couple prototypes.That works for me now.
That's really cool, love it!
Thanks much. I make darts for it with footlong bamboo skewers from the dollar store, fetched using my fly tying kit. Surprisingly accurate with a balanced dart.
Proper crossbow bolts would probably be within the parameters; I'd like to try one some time. Its optimized for bamboo skewer with dressing. Actually, anything like that. I've made some real good ones out of knitting needles and pencils. It's powered with 3/8" bungee cord rather than the usual 1/4", strung through two pairs of pulleys.Fires bolts or arrows some distance! Nicely made, lots of care, but I cannot work out the elastic, seems to be going the wrong way?
Wonder how long I'd get inside for having that in the UK?
They wouldn't let you carry one of those around out your way? My niece's boyfriend got the car that he was in pulled over because he had an earlier model with him. When the cop, the RCMP, saw it he just got sent on his way. That being said, I'm in the middle of a farming area in Atlantic Canada, and you're likely to see anything like that here. Watched a young feller come out of the woods riding a lawn mower one day.
I stopped using Dropbox... I'd been using it for several years, had perhaps a hundred photos on there plus a few dozen PDF files, when Dropbox decided that to change its terms of service.
According to the new terms of service I had exceeded the volume of data that I was allowed to store. Access to all my images that I had hotlinked in forum messages was forbidden. Every single week I got an email telling me that if I didn't pay the ransom, all my files would be deleted. Until making that payment my access was blocked so that I couldn't even download what I had uploaded, to make sure that I had a copy...
I wrote to Dropbox several times demanding access to my files so that I could download then (I didn't ask for hotlinking) but there was no response. Clearly there were no humans reading the emails today I sent.
So Dropbox can foadiaf, as far as I'm concerned.
Did you not get all the emails telling you their terms of service were changing and that you had to take action before the change date? I must of had six at least!
Crossbows and slingshots are both currently legal here, so I can't imagine it'd be illegal to own one of these in the UK. To carry around the streets or threaten people with, yes, but not to have at home for use on private land.
What tool(s) do you use to carve them?
Interesting, though my dropbox hasn't been used for quite a while. I tried using Google Drive for 3rd party access for the first time this week and it was pretty intuitive, so I'll go with it for time being.
I mainly use it for targets in the backyard, and my guess is that if the RCMP saw it they'd probably ask to see it just for interests sake. Before our cannabis laws were changed, they had me pulled over while smoking weed in the car and the constable that was searching it was flipping out over the name of my dog Darwin. But I digress... I live a minute away from the woods with a brook/beaver pond so it's not like I'm dragging it through town.
I made the body out of an old oak plank: reduce, reuse, recycle. I have a degree in Environmental Science and I try to use as much scrap as I can. The energy transfer is via 3/8" heavy-duty bungee cord in a double-compound pulley arrangement. Packs quite a wallop when it makes contact.
Mostly it was made with files, chisels, knives of different types, some of which I make myself. More on that later...
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Similar-ish with photobucket. I think I downloaded them all out before they closed the doors. I still get emails from them suggesting I pay for access back in. "Final chance" " They'll be deleted soon" "Remember these old pics you have" I actually find it a bit amusing to see the begging.
Made a little set of Ammonite paper weights the other day. Essentially just mucking about with some tooling and the power hammer.
I've been meaning to make these for quite a while but never seemed to get around to it but finally devoted some time to the tooling.
Gonna really mess with some archaeologists in a few thousand years as well!
I can hear someone saying 'volume piece'.
I look forward to your trilobite door stops.
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I can hear someone saying 'volume piece'.
I look forward to your trilobite door stops.
Ha! I should have done something like this for my volume piece. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that.
Offt a Trilobite would be a cool challenge.
Thank you Tengu.
Almost. I made a long tapered bar, twisted it then coiled it up to the shape you see. Then hammered that in to the blocks.
It's quite a common thing for people to do, I'm far from the first. Still fun nonetheless.
All the best
Andy
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