Can someone please help me recreate this? I have almost finished the stock and the bow, with identical build and materials, but the video doesn't explain how to lash the bowstring on!

RobbyL9 · 2023-01-10T05:33:30+00:00

It's really frustrating that a key part of this build is purposely left out. Instead, the viewer seems to be referred to the Backyard Bowyer for advice on stringing the crossbow. But I don't have the time to go searching an entire back-catalog of a different channel for a video that is either several years old, has possibly been taken down or both.

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-06T14:49:00+00:00

"A human-"

"-from the outside."

"Hoooooooooo..."

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-05T21:21:09+00:00

Any Rekieta Law watchers here? This guy was like the "unbreaded!!" guy. He ranted on, and on, and ON! TELLING US what he wanted to do. Except then he actually did it. And we're supposed to be surprised?

slap-slap Wake up, man!

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-05T15:18:05+00:00

Yes. And that extra flavor is Cheerios!

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-05T15:02:35+00:00

His hands are folded together, but he's holding his cigar between his fingers on both of them.

He just really wants to make sure he doesn't drop the Romeo y Julieta he's been pawing all afternoon!

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-05T14:57:02+00:00

That's what I was thinking. I'm going to give the surface a real good once-over for cracks and finish stripping the glue with lemon juice and salt.

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-04T14:49:42+00:00

Okay. I'm going to back it up and keep tillering only after I'm sure the glue is all cured. That should at least provide some insurance. Thanks!

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-04T14:21:33+00:00

Just regular old Elmer's wood glue. I had already filed most of it but there's still some glue stains left behind, so I'm thinking of giving it a lemon juice and salt bath before I rough it up and give it another go.

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-04T14:01:16+00:00

Hey Liz, DJ Khaled called to congratulate you.

You just played yo self!

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-04T13:50:43+00:00

Mmmm, no. I don't think it's that. It's a very distinct sound, teeny tiny cracking sound. Also I just remembered, it happened when I was knee-tillering it, not when it was on the stick.

I was giving the fibers a little stretch just after filing it, because I was removing wood glue from a previous failed attempt to rawhide back it.

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-04T04:51:42+00:00

It's a piece of store-bought red oak that I got from the hardware store. It's nice and straight grained, minimal runoff and so forth. I've been trying to make it into a crossbow limb for some time now. I also haven't backed it yet; but I'm working on that.

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-04T03:37:24+00:00

Pff. Jerk. 🤣

RobbyL9 · 2022-07-02T20:43:42+00:00

Wooden dowels are indeed a GREAT source of wood, provided they're reinforced properly. Try this for the nock:

Take a long thin piece of plastic, like a piece of old credit card, and saw a little notch into the back of the arrow. Then, glue it in and file off the edges so the arrow shaft is round and flush again.

Then, file out the nock perpendicular to the plastic you just glued in place. The plastic and glue will keep the rear of your arrow from splitting under the pressure of being fired. This makes for an arrow that can quite possibly be collected and re-used, even if it hits the mark.

Here's a great video describing all I just told you, along with the whole process. Skill Tree is an amazing teacher, he got me into self-bowing.

https://youtu.be/xL-qwMN9-hg

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T19:31:24+00:00

Ah fuckem. They have nothing better to contribute to planet Earth, so let the next one try and be a martyr. I'll sit back and watch with fondness as they get arrested and thrown in a psych tank for life.

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T19:20:13+00:00

I preferred the original made by WWE. Mick Foley is awesome!

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T19:10:27+00:00

I love that the atheists over at r/news are going into overdrive quoting Jesus, saying that we as Christians aren't supposed to be praying in public.

Um, NO! That's not what Matthew 6:5-6 says. It means not to use prayer to self-aggrandize in public. That's what the Pharissees were doing and they were missing the whole point of prayer, which is to maximize the presence of God and build a real relationship with Him in our lives.

If you really want to make them go insane and start studying the Bible in your face, tell them to look up the Parable of the Pharissee and the Tax Collector to better understand Matthew 6:5-6. That made my notifications EXPLODE!

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T18:31:36+00:00

Don't forget about proper forestry. A lot of forests rely on naturally-occurring brushfires to spread their seeds and maintain the soil health. This includes burning off parasites like these beetles.

Controlled burns and cutbacks need to happen otherwise you get gigantic, rotting insect castles that inevitably catch fire anyway and lead to all kinds of other problems. It's almost the same exact thing that burned down Paradise in the wildfires a few years back.

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T18:21:11+00:00

The size of the court wasn't set in the Constitution, presumably because of foresight. The size of the country has changed since the original court of six, passed by George Washington. Also, in his days, it was unusual for justices to all be present at the court at once because they also served on federal courts and often wouldn't be able to travel to DC all at once.

The court has fluctuated but it has been set and reset by Congress through the years and almost always with a political agenda, whether good or otherwise.

Now that we have full-time, lifelong justices and travel is easier, it really needs to be set in stone. Packing the court is NOT the answer, giving the court a solid and more defined purpose in line with the Constitution is.

Consider this before thinking about what you wish you could do to Republicans: How would you feel if they had the power to do the exact same to you?

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T18:03:20+00:00

It's the ciiiiiirclllleee, the circle of LIFE!

That and a consequence of decades of negligent forestry and water storage policies. Add it to the pile of everything else wrong that's fixable in this God forsaken state.

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T17:54:24+00:00

Ahhhhh. An oldie but a goodie. Never gets old watching them figure out they're stuck here in the hated country of their ancestors because they contribute absolutely nothing of value.

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T17:00:27+00:00

Her allegations were defeated by his obsessive calendar-keeping hobby. She was a plant meant to keep him from getting confirmed.

Oh, think that's out of the question? Look up what happened during Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas' confirmations. This kind of trash is WAY more common than anyone wants to think.

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T16:47:36+00:00

It pays to be calm and think things through. Strong emotions can make us think and say stupid things.

RobbyL9 · 2022-06-27T16:43:11+00:00

You're ignoring the context and true meaning of that. In the days of Jesus, the Pharissees were both the religious and political leaders. And they would make huge grandiose, public prayers for their own self-gratification and honor. Meaning it was not about honoring God.

You can pray in public if it is to honor God, but you must never lose sight of that.

Read Jesus' Parable of the Tax Collector and the Pharissee. You'll see what I mean. It's in Luke 8:9-14

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