It's more adjustable than a Flemish twist. I can't say if it's actually traditional or not...bowyers call it the Bowyer's knot, while I've known it most of my life from Scouting and now as an arborist as the Timber hitch. Either way, it chokes a rope onto a log nicely and doesn't go anywhere. I've h...

58" NTN 57#@26" Brace height 4.5" Finished with birch oil harvested and processed by Udwin http://i63.tinypic.com/6gzsyu.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/14bq4qq.jpg http://i68.tinypic.com/33k69nl.jpg http://i65.tinypic.com/2uygewy.jpg http://i63.tinypic.com/2lkyxax.jpg I'm in the process o...

That said, I think "stranger MERFers dropping into a medieval village" isn't quite a perfect analogue, since the Dunedain are *known* to the Breefolk. Not trusted certainly - but they've presumably been passing through the the Breelands since time out of memory and presumably haven't kill...

Interesting thoughts...but was an outlaw's money good anywhere? I feel like some but not all qualities of outlaws are applicable.

Udwin has written extensively on pursuing a 'common persona' (much like you said that not everyone can be a sergeant, etc.) Very good concept to follow.

I've been musing on a thought a bit this week, and thought I'd share the question with you all, and my own thoughts on what the answer might be. How would we come across, dressed and equipped as we are, if we were to enter a Historical European location/town/etc. in-period? Obviously, there would be...

This thread goes into better detail on the actual cloak construction and design. The newsletter article talks more about how the cloak's design and use fits pretty much all of Tolkien's descriptions of cloaks worn by Rangers and/or travellers...but the cloak pictured isn't as good an example as the...

I know I'm really late to the game on this one, but I'm really surprised that no one brought up the dwarves song from the Unexpected Party, which says (I believe in verse two and I think I have these words correct I'm typing from memory) "The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, while hammers f...

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Very much nearing completion. I cranked out these horn nocks today, and am mildly perturbed that I put the brownish one on the bottom. My logic was that it'd be getting stuck in the dirt more often than not, because, you know...brown...but then I liked how it turned out much better than the black on...

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This week, we're taking the plunge and filing off the perfectly good ends of a functional bow and rolling the dice again to fit horn nocks. I seriously debated gluing on tip overlays instead of tapering the ends like this, but it's been done this way for nearly a thousand years...guess I oughta try....

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Greg wrote:I swear yew staves shoot smoother than any other other wood.

This sucker feels smoother in draw and release than my glass laminated recurve. I'm in heaven.

Haven't gotten it on a scale yet, but it's shooting ash shafts spined at 55# like lasers, so that's my ballpark. Yes, I went ahead and shot it. 10" group at 20 yards after not shooting regularly for, oh, I don't know...a year? Form's imperfect, but the little bow's doing its job and it didn't b...

Got her on the stick a few weeks ago: FB_IMG_1542907843684.jpg FB_IMG_1542907849664.jpg Yesterday, the real progress happened. My goal was to hopefully get to 24" without an explosion. http://i66.tinypic.com/anity1.jpg THAT, right there, is a conservatively 26" full draw. On to nocks, and ...