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Main Boards => Trad History/Collecting => Topic started by: raghorn on March 14, 2009, 04:16:00 PM
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I custom made these for a friend. He will be hunting with them in 2009.
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OUCH!!! Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of that one.Nicely done.
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That's awesome Ron. What bleeder did you use? CKruse
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looks great Ron,nice job. :thumbsup:
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Ron those are pretty neat heads.Gary made several using the bleeder blades from a Pearson switchblade.I may still have one around here somewhere.Thats a huge broadhead and actully seem to fly better for me with bleeders installed.bd
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Magnus bleeder.
I did some STOS heads last year for another friend and he took several animals with them and was very impressed with the blood trail etc, from 4bld as compared to the 2bld.
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Ron - Does this post qualify as "advertising" and have you submitted for inclusion on the ABCC Broadhead Master List? OK, I will ask, what is its name it?
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Might I suggest the "Pearson/Brunges Field Dresser". Kill and field dress your deer in one easy step! Looks mighty DEADHEADLY! CKruse :scared:
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Not advertising.
Not for sale.
Just do them for friends and they provide the heads and bleeders.
I guess if we had to put a name on any 2bld that I convert to 4bld it would be:
"Damn Good Head"
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Here are some more I have done over the years.
Deadhead, Outback Supreme, Delta,Zephyr, El Grande.
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That's El Grande on the right? That looks like one hell of a penatrater!
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Yep, that's a Grizzly El Grande 190 gr plus the 32 gr for the bleeder. I've also done the new 160 gr Ace standard with the Ace bleeder. SWEET!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v76/raghorn/Ron/Ace_4bld.jpg)
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Ron B - Glad you have documented some of your custom broadhead work. When did you start making these heads?
You should write a book about all the altered heads. Give you something constructive to do in your retirement years.
Ron B - These are altered Deadheads still on the Eccleston Display boards. Floyd collected handmade and altered heads. These were in the collection by 1991/2. Three were made by bowmen to use. One was made by a collector. The makers' names are lightly written in pencil on each peg, only one was made by a Ron, but not Ron Brunges or Ron Roehrick.
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I'll look for the one I have also later this morning.I think your right Ron in calling it damn good head.Here's a little story from the guy I got mine from.
He'd returned from a elk hunting trip in Montana where he shot a rather nice bull with the deadhead/switchblade combo...He said to me.I made a 12 yard broadside pass thru shot just above the heart..I could see light thru the hole before the bull fell over.I still love that one good head..bd
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Ron, very nice looking head, you do nice work. Something different and unique.
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Doc – Here is some accurate history I have been recording about the use of the words “good head” to describe broadheads… the article is still incomplete, but thought it would a good time to share it since you uttered the words at the end of your previous post…
Since 1974, the term "Good Head" was actually the most commonly used term used to describe better broadheads since organized broadhead collecting began that year. Many collectors used the term almost exclusively to describe any broadhead that was not common. The name continued in popular usage for the next 22 years.
Some collectors could not utter a sentence without using the term to describe their broadheads, especially when attempting to entice another collector into a trade. In most cases, the only thing worse then their use of the term was their total and complete lack of legitimate knowledge about the broadhead.
In July 1996, the term began to fall out of common usage after I wrote a 2-page article in “Broadhead” the ABCC Newsletter, about not knowing what a "Good Head" really was. In the next issue, I wrote some amusing follow up that was about events that occurred during the annual meeting.
Many of the collectors who frequently used the term, “Good Head” began to realize how foolish they were to say those words.
The name was brought back to a new comedic height in 1997 when fellow collectors Jim Edumnson, Mike Horton and I were on a 1,700 mile round trip, driving back from Grayling, Michigan and came up with the idea for a Cartoon Character "Charlie GoodHead" to be the club mascot. Charlie GoodHead the cartoon character, has a head on his shoulders that looks like a broadhead.... Jim, Mike and I came up with his name, appearance and over a dozen different misadventures for Charlie while we were on this trip. Yes, there is even a Mrs. GoodHead. Ed Snyder drew up our idea and we settled on Charlie’s appearance.
The following year, 1998, Ron B, added to the humor when he engraved his 1998 meeting give away heads as "Good Head". Ron’s “Good Head” is pictured at the bottom of all of his TradGang posts.
For the past 12 years, Charlie GoodHead has appeared in the quarterly Newsletter. He even came to life when Scott Smith created a human size cut out of him. I have heard rumors about him having a guest appearance on the Disney channel, but have not been able to confirm this yet.
Today, the term “Good Head” has multiple meanings within the broadhead collecting community.
Generally, collectors have learned to use more precise words to describe broadheads than “Good Head”. The occasional slip of the tongue by a collector or by an unknowing bowman, usually brings a few chuckles from others.
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"Damn Good Heads" seems like an appropriate name from the looks of those babies!! :scared:
I think that ones already been trademarked! :smileystooges:
>>--Ron--<>
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Ron N - Tooooooooooo Much!
RAG-HEAD... Sure hope that name never gets confused with RAG-HORN.
Ron B, Ron R, & Ron N. Three Rons on this thread. Easy to get confused.
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NICE JOB RON, I'M NOT SET UP TO ADD PHOTOS HERE. I SENT YOU AN EMAIL WITH A COUPLE OF PHOTOS ON AN ALTERED DEADHEAD I HAVE. NOT SURE WHAT THE BLADE IS. MAYBE FROM A LAFONDS?
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Shooting a deer with a Deadhead certinaly does the job. Shooting one with the first head in Wades picture, the double Deadhead must really open them up.
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The name "Damn Good Head" is an elevated name from the broadhead pictured below my name at bottom of my posts...that is a "Good Head" made in 1998.
Wade, surprised you didn't catch that.
I thought I was being [constructive] in my retirement, perhaps I need to be "more" constructive? Although there are folks that think I'm "destructive"!
No book/master list in place or planned for modified broadheads. Can't even get Commemorative heads documented.
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Chuck..did you say LaFond's...gota see that. :jumper:
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Ron B - Yes, I did catch that elevated name.
Just edited the post at the top of page 2... it now includes an article I have been working on about the history of the name within the broadhead collecting community.
Let me know if I left anything out in my brief summary.
The original articles, Ed's Cartoons, etc, would probably best be preserved if all collected together and published in a separate book that the ABCC could publish... The title could be the original cartoon title... "The Misadventures of Charlie GoodHead"
For those who don’t know Charlie GoodHead (the Dilbert of Broadhead Collecting), here he is on the cover of the ABCC Newsletter, which just happens to be the issue that introduces Ron’s “Good Head” as the “Special Feature”.
If you were not there, you missed some really good times.
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Are you talking about me
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Wade, you did great story on the history of "Good Head" thank you.
Bill:
Here's Chuck's photo of the modified Deadhead using a LaFonds blade.
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Ron R you may have one of the large deadheads with switchblade bleeder installed I sold you on gbay a couple years ago ? would you happen to still have it or a pic would be great. bd
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Bill - Nice photograph of "Pin Head". That would be a Pinned Bear, of course...
Ron R - Glad you liked the good head history. That LaFonds insert looks like a skinny, vented, sloped shoulder Rounder...
Ron R - Do you know of any ABCC Commemorative heads that are missing from pages 10 to 13 of "Broadheads 1972-2007" ? If so, I would like to get photographs and information about them...
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Maybe we could have some penetration tests on a few ragheads.
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BowDoc, I still have that modified Pearson I bought from you on ****, but I haven't figured out how to upload photos on this site, I have tried but its a little more complex than the *********** and my computer skills aren't the best.I have some other Pearson's also that are uniquely modified.
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This is from Ron's collection, some nice ones for sure.
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what a massive hole cutter ahh ? bd
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Bill, thanks for posting the photos, the greyish colored head on the left is the Pearson I got from bowdoc.The yellow head is a modified Pearson 3 blade switchblade, also the large and the small biscuit cutters are made by the same master craftsman.
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That awesome work ....does it take long to make them??? good luck. Mark :thumbsup:
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bayoulongbowman, next time I talk to Ron I will ask him, but I do know you cant get the blades to hot or they warp and wouldnt line up straight. It takes exsperence and skill and the proper tools to get things right.These spin perfect and are specialty items,like little works of art and very few were made.
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RON, LET ME KNOW WHEN CHESTER ARRIVES
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Chuck, I sure will,I have a spot reserved for it.Thanks.
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What did you use to make the slot in the head?
I am wanting to slot some 2 blade simmons tiger sharks. I have tried a dremmel tool but the slot was sloppy and the bleeder did not fit very tight.
Thanks !!
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I use 1/32" cutoff wheels, probably they are from Dremel. I've had them for awhile.
I have a jig that another friend made 30 years ago. I have done them by hand with a Dremel tool but there is no coffee drinking allowed before or during the slotting operation as the hands get too shaky! You have to be careful with these thin blades as they blow in an eye blink! Always wear your goggles!
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Awh just two hand it, you'll be fine. Do you square the ends of the slots with a blade or leave the radius from the wheel?