Starting to seriously wonder if we are even going to get Summer in Alberta this year. It snowed yesterday, tried again today, and we are expecting a low of -16 degrees Celsius tonight. This is unreal—we are 20 degrees below our average temp for this time of year. Anyways, I was finally able to get into the garage and do a staining and cresting run. You know just testing colours, the paint brushes, and rigged up a super hick cresting machine that works decent enough. The stain I got is more on the greyer side than I was hoping but it will do. The wine red colour I got is a little off, but after adding a bit of black I was able to achieve the proper tone. I’m interested to check them in the morning to see final colours. I forgot to take a picture to share—not that it’s picture worthy in the slightest 🤣 I’m glad I did the test because I had to trouble shoot a bit—the paint was bleeding into the grain. Learned/remembered that I should use a thin layer of my polycrylic before cresting. If anyone has any tips, anything at all, put them below. I’m all ears at this point. Oh, I did film how I “poor man” splice my feathers. I’ll get that up hopefully soon.

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I have Osteoarthritis aka Working man’s arthritis and was Curious how any of you who are also affected with it Shoot and Deal with it? This is just a question to see if anyone has any special tricks for Dealing with this? I personally don’t have much of an issue with it just a little pain, no pain no gain ! Interested to see comments

Needed a quiver for my new recurve my wife got me for Christmas. I like to make my own stuff, so I decided to make my quiver. I had some leather kicking around from when I was making knives, so I cut out a hood, stamped it with my own oak leaves and deer track stamps that I made. Then sewed the edges and wet it down so it would form over a block that I carved. I wanted a one pc quiver that I could easily take off the bow, so I bent up a pc of 3/4” wide x 1/8” thick aluminum for the bracket that the hood and arrow holder attaches to. The bracket needed an arch to allow my thumb to still hold the bow without interference. Some 3/8” neoprene rubber worked great for the arrow holder and the points insert in the hood. Some neoprene straps help keep the quiver from moving around and some double sided Velcro holds the rubber straps to quiver and bow. It’s all mocked up in the pictures, but I still need to take it apart and paint the aluminum bracket. Pretty happy with how it turned out.