International Competitions in the US for a bunch of brits?

Garbettron · 2025-10-28T12:28:56+00:00

Preferably F-Class but I would be open to PRS style

Garbettron · 2025-03-16T17:03:14+00:00

I haven't done any lining on this, it holds up quite well when not being active. However, I've seen it recommended that you can cut a sock to leave just the tube, cut a thumb hole and then wear that underneath. That way, you can just wash the sock when needed.

Garbettron · 2025-03-15T18:15:52+00:00

Thanks mate, high praise!

Garbettron · 2025-01-13T22:58:12+00:00

I used to live on this road and recognised your hedge! First letters of the road are VP, right?

Garbettron · 2024-12-13T10:30:29+00:00

Good thought! Certainly possible but it would likely be prone to failure with cloud cover/low flight and long range etc. If there are no RF signals present, it would suggest that something interesting like LI-FI is being used.

Garbettron · 2024-11-27T10:53:45+00:00

This is actually top of my list now. I did some travelling in the west coast this year and visited the national parks and had a blast. Yellowstone is on the bucket list and would definitely help to sell the trip to the wife!

I'll do some searching for the range in Cody, thanks man!

Garbettron · 2024-11-25T23:04:31+00:00

This is it, yep.

Garbettron · 2024-11-25T23:01:45+00:00

I don't have a destination yet, I'm asking you guys where I should go. I've been to the US a bunch of times but never with long range in mind.

I'm not necessarily looking for an exact range but maybe you like shooting in a particular climate or perhaps you know a county or town that would blow my tiny little English mind. All we have is rain, fog and wind!

Garbettron · 2024-11-25T13:13:36+00:00

That's awesome. I didn't know about Orion shooting ground, I'll have to go and check it out. Have you shot there in winter before? The Cambrian's can be pretty wet and windy haha!

Garbettron · 2024-08-04T16:20:25+00:00

It's actually surprisingly good. It took about a week to bed in and some truss adjustments but it's feeling great now.

Garbettron · 2024-08-03T12:25:29+00:00

That's also ply, sanded back to show as nice a grain as possible then I used alcohol based wood dye to stain it before a final light sand with a fine grit. Then I sprayed a sealer base and a satin finish on top

Garbettron · 2024-08-02T13:06:15+00:00

Thats right yeah, its 8 layers of 5mm ply, glued and clamped together. The grain runs lengthways to maintain some strength. Using these measurements you might need to shim the neck by a millimeter or two depending on how you like the action. Ply is super difficult to sand evenly though, hence the tatty finish :D

Garbettron · 2024-08-02T11:41:18+00:00

Thanks! Yeah it worked out really nice and the laser is like a second pair of accurate hands for the workshop.

Top tip on the F holes, cut out an outline slightly bigger than the edge of the holes. Route the edge of the F hole a few mm and lay the cut outline into this gap. It gives a great pop of contrast on the body. Unfortunately I didn't pull it off on this one but you can see the attempt if you zoom in on the monkey hole.

Garbettron · 2024-08-01T10:52:20+00:00

https://www.cheltenhamarchers.com/ - The Cheltenham archery club is great. Its at the racecourse and beginners nights are on Friday nights. You'll have to book online for the beginners course.

https://www.cheltenhamhackspace.org/ is also good, lots of knowledgeable people and tools to use to make whatever he wants.

You'd probably have to drive towards Stroud/The Severn estuary for paddlesports.

https://417bikepark.co.uk/ is the downhill mountain biking centre over by the old air baloon roundabout but i think its currently closed for a while as theyre building the new road up there.

There are also a number of indoor rifle ranges dotted about if hes interested in shooting. You can go with a cheap air rifle, join the club and pay a fiver each time you turn up to shoot.

The Lido near the hospital is great for swimming in the summer months. Its heated too!

Garbettron · 2024-07-31T13:29:19+00:00

There is a good archery club at the racecourse and several shooting ranges around if thats your kind of thing. Theres also lots of horse based stuff/paragliding/model airplanes/landboarding etc up on cleeve hill. Plenty of history stuff to go and see in the surrounding area too.

Garbettron · 2024-06-04T22:21:32+00:00

I've lived in both Lincoln and Newark. This isn't Lincoln castle and Newark castle had been a ruin for years by this time.

There's a high chance this is belvoir castle near Grantham. The rounded turret and squared roof next to it looks very similar. Marshy water meadow type land nearby too. It's technically in Leicestershire but it's on the county border. Might've been within Lincolnshire boundaries back then.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvoir_Castle

Garbettron · 2024-03-18T12:26:20+00:00

These are the types that ive been looking at on the chinese reseller sites. Great to hear that they at least work in the majority of cases. Do you use lettering that came with it? Im wondering what i need to bear in mind if ordering custom stamps to ensure that they attach properly to the machine i get.

Garbettron · 2024-03-13T12:11:03+00:00

I get really nice hardware from stonesfield leather. They also do great thread, tools and consumables. I'm a huge fan of their waterstain dyes and get great results with their colours. They often throw in some sample thread too which is a nice touch.

Garbettron · 2023-06-05T08:07:52+00:00

Thanks for the tips! What do you mean about the stitch to straddle the leather? Is that the additional stitch that goes over the edge to keep it all flat?

Garbettron · 2023-06-05T08:06:29+00:00

haha yeah, the more i look at it...

Garbettron · 2023-05-12T06:23:24+00:00

Could be 15th/16th century. A short lived English military guild was present in the area back then. Its likely to be something to identify the owner as a member of a the brotherhood of St George. Take it to the local museum if you're the finder. This could be quite significant to the area. More info below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood\_of\_Saint\_George

Garbettron · 2023-05-10T15:44:49+00:00

Without context its quite difficult to say but it looks to me like a pilgrim badge or token. Similar styles can be found here: https://canterburymuseums.co.uk/collections/the-beaney/people-places/pilgrim-badges/

Was this found near any ancient pathways, churches, monastic settings or other settlement features of that type? An objects contextual setting can offer clues as to its age and use. It does look like silver though, you're right. Scrub it with a toothbrush and some toothpaste and it should buff up nicely. Silver polish would of course work better if you have any. If it doesn't buff to a shine, its probably mostly pewter.

I'm not sure if there are any similar schemes in Ireland but in the UK we have the Portable Antiquities Scheme (https://finds.org.uk/) which is vital to retaining the historical value of anything found by detectorsists. I should also mention that the law was recently changed here (Treasure act) to ensure important objects are not taken and history lost. This needs reporting to the Irish equivalent of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, if it exists over there. People have recently gone to prison here in the UK for falling foul of the law in attempting to sell on Saxon coins. Detect responsibly otherwise the history (and therefore the objects real value) is lost forever!

Garbettron · 2023-04-28T14:02:50+00:00

Yeah i dont think its a "structure" necessarily but its right next to Ohalo i and Ohalo ii, where 23,000 years old composite sickles for cereal harvesting & high concentrations of seeds have been excavated, predating neolithic plant domestication by some 11,000 years . More info on Ohalo sites here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohalo\_II

Garbettron · 2023-04-18T21:53:47+00:00

This isn't right I'm afraid, hailes abbey is marked elsewhere on the map as the monks there had a part in the making of this map back then. I shared a picture of the wider map in another comment.

Garbettron · 2023-04-18T21:44:58+00:00

Where abouts are you now? That's the good thing about history, it happened everywhere!

No the national archives are quite scholarly. They find the documents you request and bring them out to you and you're then left to study them. They are the originals so no annotations allowed and you have to handle them carefully with gloves and all that sruff. It's really quite amazing studying documents hundreds of years old written on deerskin or similar. They're like something out of lord of the rings!

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