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That looks just grand so it does Would really like to see some close-up pictures too

Its ok for me edited to add; its still ok for me

A. the Welsh invented the Long Bow as we know it now. The long bow goes back into Roman history. The Welsh bow was made of Elm. They drew it only to the tip of their nose. Edward 1st fought the Welsh in the late part of the 1200s. He defeated them. He was so impressed by their archers that he incorporated Welsh Long Bow archers into his army. Gradually the English improved the Long Bow. First by making it of Yew and then, about the same time, drawing it to the back of the ear. That extra 5 inches or so adds about 25lbs to the draw weight. The infamous William Wallace, of 'Braveheart' film, was actually a Captain of Archers in Edward 1st's army in roughly 1292 - 1302. Because Edward 1st defeated the Welsh and killed their clan princes he gave them his new-born son as the first 'Prince of Wales'. The man in the centre of that picture is King Charles III, who until just a few days ago was 'Prince of Wales'. Now his eldest son Prince William has been gifted the title. 2. The four men at the corners of the catafalque, and many others positioned out of sight, are the Kings Royal Body Guard for Scotland, the Royal Company of Archers. They do practice archery but their body guard duties are just ceremonial now. Policemen/women and soldiers with big noisy loud guns do the real protecting now. But not as many as the POTUS needs. King Charles will have at most 3 body guards near him. The late Queen Elizabeth only wanted one PPO Both the late Queen Elizabeth and King Charles III are experts with the long bow. The late Queen once took part, actually several times, in an old traditional archery competition where you have to shoot at a small bird on top of a Church's spire weather vane. She always hit her mark And before anyone says it; the famous English two-finger salute is not to show that the archer still has his fingers for drawing a bow. All that is a myth I knocked up this bracer the other evening. Its for #1 dottir to test. Its just some thinnish 'dragon skin' embossed leather on the outside, some felt padding making that raised portion and some upholstery grade chrome tan on the inside. Just all glued together. With lacing hooks riveted on. Elastic cord to lace criss-cross between the hooks. I posted it to her yesterday. She'll test it out and let me know what has to change for the next ones

thats crazy. without an arrow rest by shifting your grip you can increase range or penetration. iirc, if I move my hand down by about 1 inch I can get about 100yards extra distance on clout, without having to lean backwards. If I move my hand up about 1 inch it increases my bow power and I can penetrate thicker plate steel at 50 yards Also, by having the arrow rest on your hand, having it about 1/4 to 3/8 inch out from the stave the hens will get past easier and reduce the 'archer's paradox' I was taught all this by, not one, not two, not three, but four Long Bow Archery World Champions I met 'Siegfried' briefly, once, at the Mary Rose Museum. I saw him and said hello to him and guess what he said ? He said 'Hello', then he rushed on. Just months later he was dead. I have his books as well. Great reads

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No long bow I know has an arrow rest. You rest the arrow on your hand, on the last knuckle of your thumb actually

Most of us in my family are slightly ambidextrous. I used to fence both right and left handed. I used to change hands at the end of every touché. That really threw the opponent off their stool. I can shoot pistols with either hand - I'm a rotten shot with either though! I'm now thinking, because of what you've said, about not getting a leftie glove, that is why No.1 dottir wants me to make one for her Are bows handed? my long bows aren't. I can shoot just as badly with either left or right hand with them

Thanks, that is brilliant. I think that is the sort of thing No.1 dottir is wanting. I neglected to mention that although she is right handed she shoots left handed

A good question. I'll text her and ask yeah but, no but, yeah but, her ladyship wants a glove. I've made literally dozens of tabs over the years I never used either a tab nor a glove. I used long bow of 55lbs and used bare fingers. I never needed a tab

Thanks, good advice there

Both good ideas, except, she is borrowing different tabs and gloves from the club. Thus she wants her own. And she doesn't really know what she wants either. Its a case of 'dad will know and sort it out'. She did say recently that she doesn't really like the tabs. I think what she wants is a cross between a finger glove and tab

My #1 favourite dottir texted me earlier today; can I make her a glove for her archery ? A 'finger' glove I think she wants, not a full glove There are so many variations on the theme I just don't know where to start so any ideas or guidance would be most welcome for extra info; she is using a re-curve bow and is a 3-finger string puller

We have no name for them here as no one uses them. I made some, tried to sell them, ended up giving them away, afaik they ended up as desk top pen pots

yup, only with me its No.1 son as the 'client'. Every so often he says 'when are you going to start on my steering wheels?' He's lost count of how many he needs doing but he reckons he has got rid of about 150 of very bad ones. So its still about 500 s/wheels need doing. My problems are there are about 4 or 5 different styles and a pattern needs making for each and I just cannot get that pattern right And I bought in three sewing machines to do them. Actually need only one but I bought one, gave it to someone to use on these, that person disappeared, so I bought another machine for another person and that person buggered off as well. I'd lost 2 machines, so I bought a third and within months I got the first two machines back

Another grand idea. Thanks. I'll look into 'miniatures'. Not shure bout Guinness but the whiskeys usually do them Here, as aside; about 230 years ago Guinness introduced a specially shaped bottle. It was called the 'Soldier's bottle'. It was specially designed to fit into one of the pistol holsters that the Inniskilling Dragoons had a pair of on their saddles. Allegedly, and according to legend, just before the battle of Waterloo an officer complained to the Duke of Wellington that the Inniskilling Dragoons had only one pistol, the other holster had a bottle of drink and most of the men were drunk. Wellington is supposed to have replied 'Sir, I'd rather have the Inniskillings half-armed and half-cut and here than not here at all' Also, during the battle, Wellington continuously rode up and down his lines. At one point he stopped by the the Inniskillings and said to a sergeant ' This work makes me devilishly thirsty. Give me a drink of your porter you have in your holster' The sergeant tried to deny having the drink, as it was against regulations but Wellington said 'Come man, I know you have it. Don't deny me it' Allegedly he got his drink, and rode off with the whole bottle!

Don't feel bad about it. I've done nothing about those steering wheels. And I have a large number of BMW torches to rebuild as well (but that ain't leather)

Tandy supplies a lot of its patterns in a very large page size, but also broken down to A4, or US letter size. With these I sometimes print out the A4 and tape them together. On the odd occasion I've taken the pattern PDF file to a print shop where they can print out to A0 size. To help other not used to A sizes, Start at A0, then each halving of the paper is the next A number up, or double its size to get the next lower number. One side is always common to the size on one side of it eg. A0 = 841mm x 1188mm A1 = 594mm x 841mm A2 = 420mm x 594mm A3 = 297mm x 420mm A4 = 210mm x 297mm A5 =148mm x 210mm

What jc means is that the arrow marking on the parts of that plough gauge is the 'Tower of London' UK Ministry of Defence marking. Everything made for the MoD and approved is marked with that arrow

How big is this hide?

Looks ok, but you need to add more eyes. Spiders have, on average, 8 eyes. That makes em that bit more scary. All dem eyes watching . . . . . you!

oh, man, that not like you ! you must be having an off-day. Go have an ice cold beer or iced tea and do sum thunking Inserts on; knife sheath, gun holster, man's wallet, woman's purse. A strip or two of it for hat bands Archery bracer or cowboy cuffs

I've looked at this sheath a few times. The lasering looks fine Now that others have spoken out I'll have my say, MY thoughts; 1. The deer (moose ?) head does not fit in with the slogan 2. No way would I use that slogan on anything associated to a person nearly killed by lightning, or anything. I'm sure a better slogan could be thought of 3. I would round off the corners on the flap. imo After a while in use those angled corners are gonna look dog-eared 4. its an 'unwritten rule' on here that if you do and show a knife sheath you've gotta show the knife as well 5. you posted at 02.55 on Tuesday 6th and complained on 00.20 on Thursday 8th. That's not a very long interlude. Members of this forum are not on 24/7 looking at everything all the time. It takes a while for responses. Heck, I've had responses to some of my postings months and even years after it was originally put up. More effective would have been a polite bump with some thing like 'any opinions anyone?'

I like the way you've broken away from the square or round for a coaster

nice idea. I'll think upon that. Maybe not candy/sweets tho. Anti-fun police won't allow that ach, shure every one knows how big he is. He's the same size as a leprechaun, or Big Foot, or the Yeti, or the fairy on that rose leaf Here those etchings are made by the leprechauns. Its their written directions to where they have secreted a crock of gold. Its written in an ancient language. Any human who could decipher it would be very rich indeed

I see no scrap Trim off the bad edges and just make the thing smaller