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  • Daniel
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      Darren, I want to thank you for posting this again. I also like hunting fromt he ground and 2 years ago, I was sitting on a 3 leg non-swivelling seat. I had purchased this as a convenience from a Canadian Tire store here in Canada. Well after sitting motionless for approximately 1 hour, to make a story short, I injured myself. The story starts with the first doctor indicated a muscle tear and he was right. I am a big man and these three leg stools tend not to agree with me. Could you post about the comfort of the seat itself. Thanks

      Daniel
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        Great pictures George, are those carbons bu the way?

        Daniel

        Daniel
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          Great truck, I have a 1999 Ford Xlt 4X4 and it does wonders pushing snow with my front end plough, wouldn’t trade it for the world. Have fun with it !!!

          Daniel
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            Don’t worry George, I didn’t get my longjohns in a bundle :lol:, au contraire, I enjoyed your post. As usual, lots of wisdom and savoir vivre.

            Just to let you know, I will be using my trusty Ben Pearson this next little while. This one piece recurve is set at 50# at 28″. I just need to get a few arrows to match it up and off I go. I am willing to start my education and will report back with my findings.

            Daniel
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              in reply to: Eclipse Broadheads #14751

              I just received my 145 grain Eclipse broadheads today and I am really impressed by their quality. The first thing I looked at was the manufactured edges and again, the quality is there.

              Great workmanship Eclipse !! Two thumbs up 🙂

              Can’t wait to use them now …

              Daniel
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                I’ve installed a ricasso clamp and its ready to go through the re-sanding phase. This will get rid of the scratches and slight rust that were on the blade. I start with 100 grit, then go through 120, 220, 400, 600, 1200, 1500 and 2500 grits sand papers. Once I finish them I’ll give the blade a light polish and I’ll have a nice finish.

                Once I’ll finish, I’ll add the picture.

                Daniel
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                  in reply to: Chek Mate Bows #14362

                  I have shot the Check Mate Falcon recurve and its a very sweet shooting bow. I have also shot the hunter II take down recurve and the Crusader longbow, both very nice shooting bows too.

                  Daniel
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                    Wow, this tread evolved in a sharing of wisdom through personal experiences and a sharing of hope through shear determination. Thanking all of you for sharing with us your thoughts and views on this subject.

                    Daniel
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                      Hiram, those are excellent comments about how we can recycle used materials and transform them into useful tools. I think with this mindset, we can learn to make our very own knives and or broadheads.

                      Bert,you’ve made some really good points, let’s run with that too, I’ll make one of each for you to see, meaning one broadhead with a parabolic / Shiels back end.

                      I edited this post to personally thank Hiram, a fellow knifemaker that is bringing to this tread important points regarding carbon steels. I must admit, too often we tend to overlook what is around us and again, good point. that is what I wanted to achieve with this tread, the input of people.

                      Now, if there is a desire from all of you to build another set of broadheads once this tread is done, but made out of High Carbon Steel, I am willing to do that. This will give us the opportunity to show everyone the qualities of that particular type of material.

                      Now back to our stainless steel project.

                      Daniel
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                        As not to confuse anyone about the term ” High Carbon” steel I would like to provide this explanation about it.

                        Basically if we look at steel, it is iron with carbon it, its that simple.

                        However the steels we use in the knife and broadhead industries are called steel alloys, meaning they are made of a combination of different elements.

                        Carbon is present in all steels and it has been found to be a very important hardening element plus it helps increase the strength of the steel.

                        Carbon is also one of many elements such as Chromium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Vanadium and the list of elements that could be found in one particular alloy goes on and on. What we try and look at when working with the different types of steel are their uses and applications.

                        A high carbon steel will contain approximately 1.0 % of Carbon mixed with other elements.

                        I hope this shed a bit of light on the term High Carbon.

                        Daniel
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                          Greatreearcher – good question, broadheads out of carbon Steel, not that I know of, however, what I could mention is if you were to use a carbon steel with a high level of carbon content, it would increase your steel’s hardenability but also seriously increases its brittleness which is not what we need for broadhead material. So to find the best of both worlds, we need to find either tool, stainless or spring steel that have very specific alloy composition that matches what we need in terms of hardness and strength.

                          That was a great question by the way !! 🙂

                          Daniel

                          Daniel
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                            Well Snuffy, you got me thinking and I’ve asked to have my username changed from StandingBear to Daniel.

                            Another exciting day for me, I just found out I will be able to have my own custom designed ferrules built. I’ve added a small modification to the ferrule body allowing it to widthstand added lateral pressure. Once they come out, I’ll present them here.

                            Daniel

                            Daniel
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                              Those are awesome names Patrick, two thumbs up !!!

                              Well, I finished cutting out the 6 heads using a hacksaw and then shaping them to my scribe line using my 14 inch bastard file. They look great, both of them. How funny this is, having the opportunity to share ideas and coming up with these two incredible heads.

                              Now I have to drill the holes where the hex screws are going to go through and were going to be ready to shape the left bevel grind using a wooden jig that I’ll post.

                              I like the heads !!

                              Daniel
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                                LOL LOL Too funny !!!! A big Oups here 😆

                                Thanks Snuffornot for reminding me !!

                                Daniel
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                                  Thanks Snuffy, I’ll sketch a slight delta to the base and see how they look.

                                  I just finished cutting 3 eternity and am working on the End 🙂 Man that sounds too cool !!!!!

                                  By the way, the Eternity design (if I could permit myself to call them those names until another name is choosen) is absolutely DEADLY !!!!!!!

                                  Back to the shop….

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