Excalibur Crossbow Forum

Oh, My God. A person never wants to think about this. You just keep putting it off. Thanks for sharing this with us. Mike

Choose a Meatseeker 3 Blade. Thanks Bojangles.

Did you see how the second dog looke for traffic. Simply Amazing. How could anyone not like a dog.

Never knew anything about this. Thanks all for the education. It all makes sense for proper flight.

All here seem to build their own arrows. When you buy arrows should you worry about insert squaring or check them. Thanks

Is there anyone out there with some expertees on finishing this stock. I've heard of tung oil, stain and vanish, or marine vanish. A rub on vanish, but if someone says paint I,ll hurl. eeEEEWee. Thanks Mike PS Bluefish024 has interesting idea with a red then brown stain, which I'm going to test. Tha...

Care to share a picture of your stock. Like to see its lines.

roland wrote:nice looking piece of curly maple, that wood is hard to work with. That is the same wood that I made my stock out of.

Oh yes, show us that stock. would you share the finish process. Thanks I bought a Dixie Gunworks Pennsylvania Flintlock Kit in 1970. My neighbor was a cabinet maker and helped me finish the stock and rifle. Took 1 year just to finish the stock. He only allowed me to work on the stock about 30 min. a...

Added a Dremel tool to help with the carving. 8) 8) 8) what tools would you be using. i have a large woodshop and looks like something i would like to attempt. would you use a router to make a grove for where the rail sits. other than that, all i can think of would be a bandsaw, scroll saw, and a fe...

Yes, that has crossed my mind. I think I will try two 2x8 spruce glued together and plane to same demenisions. Yes I would hate to mess up that maple. Thanks Mike Very nice piece of wood. I would suggest makeing a protocopy out of some soft wood (pine) befor useing that nice piece! Glue up some 2 x4...

I get looks at archery shops still. Thats why I try to do everything myself. In wisconsin the older crowd is warming up to the idea.

It's a pity they can not make a set standard for posting pictures on websites. I guess that would be to easy.

awshucks wrote:I use the bottom line of the 4 in photobucket, just copy it and paste, voila.

well, right now my shop is open to all ideas. Mine are for the rail I'm going to dado that out first . Then after I get the rail fitted and trigger hole drilled, I'll rough draw on the 7" flat side the way I want the stock to look. I'll have to go to a local lumberyard for a bandsaw. Never used...

I will post however it turns out. For now I'm going to dream about it. Good night all.

Man, I'm sticking my neck out here. This blank may be just firewood. :shock: the easiest way i have found is to copy the img code insted of the direct link. that way you don't have to hit the img button . all you have to do is copy the img code from photobucket and paste it here Yeah . . that too. O...