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>>1070316

Pee on it? maybe?

>>1070316
if your in a hurry get some muriatic acid from hardware store
if not distilled white vinegar works just as well, just takes forever

>>1070316
It's a hammer. Oil it, wipe it off, put it back in the toolbox.

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>>1070011
Rough sanding and cutting, using 40 grit sandpaper, and a Jigsaw.
Also a lot of patience. With Tigerwood, the jigsaw would cut 1/8" rapidly, or take a few seconds to push through 1/16" depending on the grain layer. All in all it was very slow to cut, but still felt workable.

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>>1070013
Clamped it down and made my first decent neck pocket.
I clamped the neck into the correct positon, and drew around it, then used the router to slowly clear out the area, moving in clockwise patterns.

>tonewood
>electric guitar

I've been checking out a lot of his stuff on traditional tools, which are very informative. However, he seems to be a bit of a wanker overall.

-He's a bit preachy.
-He talks too much about his life, instead of focusing on the tools. I get that this is what his channel is about (the homesteading life) but it's not what draws me to it.
-He'll praise a tool he likes in unqualified fashion, without mentioning upsides and downsides. Exceptions for the videos he explicitly makes as a review, though.

Overall, I've gotten a lot of good information out of his channel, especially about lumbering techniques, but I've got to take it with a large grain of salt. He's too fast to accept folk wisdom instead of testing things himself, but in spite of all that he's a damn fine expert on forestry techniques. Anything he posts with the word "axe" or "fire" in the title is probably quality.

>clickbait video titles
>10+ minutes of unintelligible ranting
>pissy attitude
>jesus-jesus-jesus

Annoys the shit out of me and JewTube keeps recommending his garbage to me. He is fine when he's reviewing axes or making a handle for one. Otherwise, it's just fucking trash.

>>1069925
This.

I get a bit bored and annoyed at the way he constantly goes on about how great the "old days" were and how all the stuff made back then was so much better.

>>1069796
Unless it's corded at the pawn shop.

>>1069796
Battery powered circular saws are shit, unless all you use it for are small cuts in soft wood.

Go to a pawn or garage saw and pick up a corded saw for $15

>>1069800
I feel you and I'm gonna do that, though desu the new line of battery shit is pretty nice. These Lithium Ion batteries and their little Fuel line with computer shit controlling the power, its nothing like dad's NiCad piece of shit.

>>1069610
Put pot of water on stove, boil, pour through filter with coffee in it. Alternatively, boil water in microwave, pour through filter with coffee in it. Drink coffee. Once your awake report back about machine, since you're obviously not awake enough to properly diagnose problem.

>>1069610
Is it not pumping water?
You might have to open your machine to troubleshoot.

>>1069610
The heater is failing. It won't brew coffee until it has heated up the water enough, and the heater isn't capable of that anymore.

You may be able to get a few more brews out of it if it has settings, and you go in and set the brew temp down to as low as it will go. If it doesnt have a settings menu, youre fucked. Seen this problem a million times.

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>>1069458
BTW they are land hermit crabs so It won't be filled with water. Just sand and coconut substrate.

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>>1069459
No water, should be easy enough to just remove one side from each of the tanks, then put them together with aluminium angle bars for support- heavy silicone sealant gunge and glue them together.
The join will probably benefit from some silicone as well and if you wanted to make it look a bit tidier, line it with alu-flat bar

Course if you've got the glass pieces there, just pull it apart and make it how high/wide/long you want.

>>1069462
I might use a strong plastic because hermit crabs are sensitive to metal so I'm trying to avoid using it

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some more views

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you can see the huge gap at the left side of the trunk

>>1069154
I'm afraid that's too much for the typical mechanic even.
Its some serious steel, getting it to look right is not only difficult, but usually damages the chrome also.

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>>1069115
Cold saw.
Basically a high torque, low speed chop saw with a water cooled toothed blade.
Not cheap, but if you can find a used one its well worth it.
That's what we cut all of our chro-moly tubing with.
No sparks, shavings are easy to clean up and very smooth cuts.

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>>1069115
canot you use one of these? they are under 500dolaritos/euritos

Horizontal bandsaw from HF. Will give you perfect cuts.

>>1069083
20/10

clever solution

I'll give it a solid 9 because I don't think it'll hold up very long.

>>1069083
Whatever works when you're stuck in the middle of nowhere.

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I've made a few bows, steambent a few limbs, but never bamboo. I think that when you use heat to bend wood you're softening up the material between the fibers, allowing the fibers to slide ever so slightly and set in their new place. Or something.
You can use dry heat, steam or straightup boil the wood. Dry heat is riskier as it dehydrates the wood extremely quickly but I have used it to correct minor misalignments after the fact to great effect.

If you are making a recurve it might be enough with a deep pot of boiling water. Since recurves only have a short area heavily bent whereas a reflex-deflex bow has reflex through the entire limb (and deflex through the riser).
Reflex/recurve means being bent "away from the shooter" while deflex means the opposite.

In my pic you can see my first attempt at a reflex-deflex bow. I did that with a large pipe hooked up to a pot of boiling water, left it to steam for 45-60 minutes while checking on it occasionally then quickly, using gloves, clamping it to a mould made of extremely thick (like 3 inches) plywood but you could make a mould out of a 2x6 just as well. My particular bow is rawhide-backed juniper.

If it's your first bow I am not sure I would recommend making a takedown. Some recommend it because "if something breaks not all work is wasted" but it adds a whole new dimension of alignment and attachment problems between riser and limbs. I've never heard of anyone making a bow out of only bamboo, though it is fairly popular to back bows using it, because of its impressive tensile strength. Backing means gluing onto the back (the side facing away from the shooter). I've also heard bamboo takes a lot of set or "string-follow" so you may want to shape the bow to have excess reflex from the getgo. You're also gonna wanna flatten the natural curve out of the bamboo by steaming/heating and pressing it flat.

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With all these things in mind I'd argue that you should make a bamboo backed bow but not by steambending the reflex/recurve in but rather, by gluing it in.

Start by hewing out the basic shape of the bow in a straight stave of a wood that can withstand compression well (ipe, juniper, ash, mesquite, yew). Flatten your bamboo with heat and force. I think you'll want to retain the natural outer layer of the bamboo for maximum integrity so thin down the bamboo with a beltsander or something, from the "inside". I guess roughly 3mm is a good thickness for a bamboo backing. Create a good gluable surface on both bow and bamboo. Rasp is good. I've heard people work over the bulgy bits on the bamboo with round steel rods or similar to kinda compress/temper them without ruining their structural integrity.

While glue cures, pressure can be applied by tightly wrapping string around the whole thing but that string will likely fuse with the bow because of squeezeout and that's a pain to remove. If you use this method you can tie the nocks together to achieve a reflexed shape during glue-up and curing.

Alternatively, and probably better as it's easier and will assure perfect uniformity in both limbs, is gluing it up in a mould with reflex built-in. Put plastic bags between bow and mould to avoid them fusing.
Glue I'd recommend is Titebond 3.

After that you just rasp away until you can start floor-tillering it (look it up). Shape riser, cut nocks, make a string, make a tillering stick, tiller, sand, seal.
All that work will be wasted if you use a shoelace or some nylon shit for a string. Use quality linen thread or Dacron B50 and learn to make a flemish twist.
Making good arrows is a science in itself with spine, weight, wood grain orientation and type/size/orientation of fletchings.

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All wood needs time to dry thoroughly before being worked however. Green (wet) wood takes additional set which will affect bow performance. Drying takes ages, they say a year per inch of thickness.

If you're getting yourself into this to hunt I think you should make a good bow with a draw weight of atleast 35 lbs for reasons of humaneness.

Good reading for aspiring bowyers.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/26sdzs1ql4viylc/The+Traditional+Bowyer%27s+Bible%2C+Vol.+1.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hzh6mb4c1ciykte/The+Traditional+Bowyer%27s+Bible%2C+Vol.+2.pdf

Cozy watching for aspiring bowyers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt0n9W8KHS0

Way past its market date,
Think alot of people would go "hey cool"
But not alot would drop money into it now its been and passed

Cool, how many millions should I wire over to you? 2 sound good? Do you have PayPal?

What vehicle would you use as a base?

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>>1068855

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>>1068863
Run goes over 20 feet. Here's a shot of the whole set up. Inputs on bottom left. I'm 90% sure it doesn't run outside. Pulling out the slack I can tell it runs to the side behind the drywall for at least a bit. If it was ran outside wouldn't it pull straight out?

WIZARDS.

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>>1068201
here she is 2 years after launch with sales

Photos of the interior, love custom boat interiors.

>>1068203
sales... i'm drunk please excuse my spelling

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>>1067727

last thread is still active

>>1046130

>>1067815
Last thread has reached bump limit


My new hat
>winter is coming

It was fun to sew

self bump

>>1067595
No need to bump. Your thread will be around for a week.

If newegg is too pricey you probably should wait and save up.

Pcpartpicker is good site to use to find several suppliers for a certain item(s)

>Beware the i3 proponents soon to follow

>>1067602
thanks and whats an i3?