Making Master Borg his first bow tomorrow

[Rogerborg]

Little git takes after me, he'd rather invest his time playing on the computer and using his imagination than waste it dealing with you dumb humans.

But he's into Stronghold (I and II) at the moment, so today I dragged him off to the local castle, stropping all the way. They had a box of dressing up gear in one of the rooms, and he got archered up.

So I offered to make him a bow, and after the usual pondering, he's eventually agreed and is quite into the idea now.

Jazzed up doesn't quite cover it. I haven't done one for years, so it's off to B&Q to find the least roasted of their kiln dried hardwood, shave down one of mine, or start with one of my precious seasoned ash staves.

Either way, +infinity man and dad points. Double infinity if someone loses an eye.

How's your Sunday shaping up?
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Get some PVC tubing whilst you're down there and make a crossbow, too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZSX2iEiDo
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[Benson_JV]

Post build it thread. Grand plan.
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[TheSmiler]

Pretty cool, would like to see the how 2 thread, for me tomorrow is taking a dry run to where I think I'm having my interview on Monday at 10am. I say think as the website directs you to a completely different post code than the one that is listed.
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[The Black Baron]

How old is your Borg Jnr?

edit: trying to judge when to get mine into projectiles.

[Spudly]

[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

[Rogerborg]

[panrider_uk]

[Benno]

Awesome! My dad made me a bow when I was younger. We had a Yew tree in our back garden so it had added historical accuracy! See if you can find a Yew tree to make a real longbow (takes a hell of an effort to pull the string though!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxus_baccata#Longbows
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[weasley]

[Rogerborg]

[ScaredyCat]

[Ollie1995]

Why has the end of the arrow got something that's not sharp and deadly looking on the end
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[Rogerborg]

[cimbian]

I think he'll enjoy this Roger.

I'm a County coach and coached my youngest from age 11 to becoming a member of the GBR junior recurve squad (olympic-style bows) at age 16.

Youngsters can do archery from very young if the draw-weight of the bow is low enough and are taught good form.

My own classes have taken kids from age 7 and up.
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[Rogerborg]

The draw weight is a bit too much for him, but he insisted on keeping it there. Since that's stupidly manly of him, I had to support his choice.
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[pits]

[DrDonnyBrago]

I spent my Sunday foraging the local sink estates for scrap, tried to nick a wooden pallet from a skip only to find it was trapped by a window frame, then went home and made some things (not manly enough to be mentioned in a thread about long bows) I needed whilst drinking a mojito and a daiquiri.

[Sload]

Nice idea and good thread. The last time I made a bow was when I was a wee nipper. We used to find tree branches that looked about right and string them. We never could understand why they only lasted a couple of shots.
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[Rogerborg]

[cimbian]

[Tarmacsurfer]

I'd not even have considered kiln dried timber for a bow of any description, I'd have thought you would simply get caught in the face by the cloud of splinters as the thing flechetted out of your hands at full anchor

I came so close to buying a stash of 1940s carpenters tools to clean up recently, mainly for the array of spokeshaves it contained

Nice job
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[Rogerborg]

I was very surprised. I did my first four in best B&Q mahogany (or reasonable facsimile) as a learning exercise. Two did disintegrate pretty spectacularly in my face, two came out as reasonable bows which have been shooting for 15+ years, one of them now in a truncated Next Generation fashion.

On knives, it's more technically correct - the best kind of correct - to say that most offensive weapons legislation has a specific exemption for folding pocket knives with cutting edges not exceeding 3"/75mm. Anything locked or fixed like a sheath knife is fair game for a day in court, where you can try your defence of "lawful authority or reasonable excuse".

Be aware that people can be and have been arrested for carrying credit card sized blades in the wrong place (Eurostar, IIRC).

https://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31IwdLt-V1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

[UPDATE]
Yup, there we go. Brigadier Tom Foulkes MBA, BSc, CEng, FICE, FIMechE, MioD and Director General of the Institution of Civil Engineers: arrested, copped a caution.
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