Let's get this fired up!
Did a little forum browsing today after quite the hiatus...
It's too stinking cold here to get fired up. We have over 12 in. snow blazing 7 degrees.and weren't used to it :scared:
Quote from: Crooked Stic on January 27, 2026, 04:43:29 AMIt's too stinking cold here to get fired up. We have over 12 in. snow blazing 7 degrees.and weren't used to it :scared:
Ya you guys got a hell of a winter storm back east and it went clear to Texas in the south. it's going to hit 50 degrees this afternoon here today in Oregon. but it has been getting into the high 20's at night this last week. Next week back to rain again for us. :biglaugh:
I'm just finishing up a set of 70# ILF limbs that has a twill carbon back. i used it right over the .040 glass and thought it would bump the poundage up a bit, but it didn't effect the draw weight at all compared to just using the same stack with .040 glass. :dunno: :dunno: That sure seemed strange to me. I ended up with 65# instead of 70#.
This happened two days ago but there was no post for it yet, ha.
Blew up a nice wonky character stave out of hawthorn. It was doing really well with tillering and bending mid limb nicely with very different rates of reflex per limb so it was tricky but going well.
was pulling under 50 at the 20 inch mark and i was interested in a 60 pound bow so i was routinely tillering down those last inches of draw. Well i was working the limbs between tillering and checking progress and BAM one of the pin knots on the front was in a cluster of three and they were about 2 inches off the fades. Just a bit too stiff yet to bend there and it split the limb from fade to a few inches under the tip.
Happens once in a while,I am sometimes too impatient and too heavy on the bandsander with 36 grit paper.
.020 carbon twill adds no stiffness. Can count it as part of the stack. Kirk if you added it to the stack you are right should have done the same as adding .020. As part of c the stack no
Quote from: Crooked Stic on January 27, 2026, 07:31:07 PM.020 carbon twill adds no stiffness. Can count it as part of the stack. Kirk if you added it to the stack you are right should have done the same as adding .020. As part of c the stack no
Other carbon i've used always added a bit of draw weight to the same stack height. That's why it surprised me. :dunno:
Bowyering is weird sometimes :bigsmyl:
Quote from: Crooked Stic on January 29, 2026, 08:12:13 PMBowyering is weird sometimes :bigsmyl:
Amen brutha..... Amen. :notworthy:
I loaded up 20 caulking tubes with EA 40 this morning. I buy mine in 2 gallon kits, and it fills 20 tubes almost perfectly. In the past i refilled the tubes that i have already used, but its a hassle getting the old plug out of the tubes undamaged. The new tubes are pretty cheap.
The cool part about doing this is that your epoxy has a longer shelf life and only see's the air twice before mixing. 1st time loading the tubes, & second time when you use it. It also makes it real easy to get your 2:1 mixing amounts. 2 pumps of A to one pump of B.
Even if you buy your epoxy in smaller quantities, this is hands down the best way to dispense your epoxy without exposing the whole can to the air each time, and don't have to worry air born dust contaminating your epoxy.
If you want to try this yourself, the trick is cutting the tip of the tube off before filling them with a putty knife. that, and making sure the stuff is warm before doing it.
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Kirk i have seen you discuss this a few times and man i cant wait to try this out. Ill get around to it on my next ea-40 purchase
Quote from: dbeaver on February 01, 2026, 03:52:14 PMKirk i have seen you discuss this a few times and man i cant wait to try this out. Ill get around to it on my next ea-40 purchase
Once you give it a go, you'll be glad you did. The one thing I didn't mention was when you are using these caulking guns in warm weather, always put a piece of masking tape on the tip when you are done, and never hang them with the tip down. I made a hell of a mess learning that one a couple years ago. :biglaugh:
Sprayed my first few gloss coats ready to sand and a matte finish. Birdseye maple & Wenge.
Nice looking gloss finish. What type of clear coat are ya using there? :thumbsup:
Btw. Nice job on the off sett I beam wit( that footed riser block.
Quote from: Kirkll on February 15, 2026, 07:21:34 PMNice looking gloss finish. What type of clear coat are ya using there? :thumbsup:
Btw. Nice job on the off sett I beam wit( that footed riser block.
A two part component urethane auto clear , it doesnt usually turn out that good first time got lucky but sanded it in the end and finished it matte. Iam building 3 of them with the last of this mosaic i had.
I told a friend I was gonna try my hand at leather work and make some arm guards, he instantly requested a hip quiver so I thought I'd give it a try.IMG_2982.jpg
Very nice! Tell me you're not a beginner.
I started leather working when I wanted a leather grip for my longbow.
Dave.
Beginner? heck no, I did make an arm guard before attempting this.
I was running low on hard rock maple lams, So i ran into town and picked up a piece today and i'm all stocked up for awhile now. i found some nice straight grained stuff too. :readit:
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Ice storm got us bad, over 12,000 without power, 13 days without power and 30 days without internet for me and TV streaming in North Mississippi. We had over 1000 line men from other states come and help us.
Had to cut our way out wit chainsaws to the Hwy. .
My 160 Acers has a lot of clean up to do, trees down everywhere.
1994 ice storm it was 30 days without power for me.
Hate to hear that Mark. We went through an ice storm a few weeks ago but not nearly as bad. Ice is the worst.Hope you can get back on your feet soon.
Yup ... I saw the National weather and that arctic storm looked pretty bad back there. We typically get at least a couple of serious ice events here in Oregon every year about this time of year, but we are having just the opposite here. It's going to be 60 degrees tomorrow, the flowering plum tree is in full bloom, and tomorrow im going to mow the grass believe it or not...
Strange weather year.
That's tough being without power so long. Hopefully you had a generator to help keep things running a bit. Kirk
Working on it Pat
No Generator for me Kirk, I stayed with my sister
here is a photo of out last big ice storm. this was a 50 year old pussy willow that was about 6' at the butt, and half of it fell on my wood shed. doesn't look very big in the photo, but it was large!
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We had about 1000 power line polls down it the County
Quote from: Mad Max on March 01, 2026, 10:16:11 PMIce storm got us bad, over 12,000 without power, 13 days without power and 30 days without internet for me and TV streaming in North Mississippi. We had over 1000 line men from other states come and help us.
Had to cut our way out wit chainsaws to the Hwy. .
My 160 Acers has a lot of clean up to do, trees down everywhere.
1994 ice storm it was 30 days without power for me.
That's rough 😕 I had a couple days without power last December and thought it was as bad as it could get. Can't imagine 13 days.
With that last big one we had we were without power for 10 days. I had rented a generator right after the storm hit and got lucky. The drive into town was like a skating rink. :o :o :o but those generators were all gone in the time i was there picking mine up.
We are pretty self sufficient here, and have a wood stove for heat, and propane cooking stoves. but the rough one is no water. Our well is 300' deep and runs a 3HP pump that's over 200'from the house. There is no running that pump with a portable generator pulling that kind of amperage through 500' of 8 gage copper wire. So i had to make water runs now and then.
The cool part about it was that the insurance company covered my generator rental cost & fuel along with repairs to the wood shed and tree removal. That tree was too big for me to handle solo leaning on a building.
48 years ago today Marcia and I got married and we celebrated today by voting and sharing a box of Puffs because we've been sick for almost a week. On the mend now but not quite there but the marriage is still strong. :thumbsup:
Congrats on the 48th anniversary! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: We are hitting 42 years in August.
Hope ya get to feeling better.
Thanks, Kirk.