Christmas Trade Pics.

[bowtarist]

Looks good swamp thang! Barefoot huh? It's 18 degrees here today.

[bjrogg]

Swap Thang that's been on my list of things to make for awhile now. Looks nice no tee- shirts and bare feet here. Dang that wind is brutal again. Our coyote tracking snow is gone but it's cold and windy
Bjrogg

[JW_Halverson]

Looks good swamp thang! Barefoot huh? It's 18 degrees here today.

18 below here lately!  I don't even dress like that IN THE HOUSE these days!  Starting to really think this move to Arizona isn't such a bad idea.

Can you post a little more about the take down aspect of the Atlatl dart?  I'm interested.

[Swamp Thang]

Sure thing. Trying to find a good resized to show the detail any suggest ions?  Also I'm on a phone so it should be android friendly

[TrevorM]

The pics I uploaded were on my phone. I just cropped it if needed then set it 600 for whichever way was bigger and let it just work out the other.

[Swamp Thang]

Yeah it's been a steady 60 to 70 degrees here I tend to run around barefooted down til 35°.

[Swamp Thang]

Swap Thang that's been on my list of things to make for awhile now. Looks nice no tee- shirts and bare feet here. Dang that wind is brutal again. Our coyote tracking snow is gone but it's cold

I have another piece of Iron Works rivercane if you want it I can ship it home or cut it in half for you

[Swampman]

I finally finished up the last item for my offering.  I am waiting for my shop to warm up (-10 here tonight) and I will be working on packaging everything up.  I plan to go to the Post Office on Saturday. 

Mike

[Swamp Thang]

No way man that's insane I'll take my triple digit heat index plus astronomical humidity anyday over that

[Swamp Thang]

Looks good swamp thang! Barefoot huh? It's 18 degrees here today.

18 below here lately!  I don't even dress like that IN THE HOUSE these days!  Starting to really think this move to Arizona isn't such a bad idea.

Can you post a little more about the take down aspect of the Atlatl dart?  I'm interested.

 
As requested.....it is still green as I harvested  it and began the process.

The main component is rivercane with pin oak inserts which I whittled and sanded down to form the tightest friction fit possible, on the middle I poured a healthy amount of wood glue in one end and using gravity with a lil thrust slammed the rivercane six inches onto the pin oak dowel let sit. The tip is glass from a Jagger bottle with pine pitch and wrappings are done using a serving style wrap from my back up bow string : ( the fletchings were harvested from my aunts turkeys. Total length is and 6'5". Everything organic I harvested myself.

More pics to come when service is better.

[jeffp51]

mark me as shipped--finally.  I can now move from feeling guilty about being so slow to feeling anxious because I still haven't got my gift either.  I call it carma.

[Swampman]

Mark me as shipped too.  I hoped to ship sooner than this but I finally finished.

[Trapper Rob]

So far 22 out of 33 people has shipped & 18 out of 33 people has received.

[PaulN/KS]

I checked the USPS tracker number on the box I sent and it was listed as delivered. The recipient hasn't posted though.

[Dakota Kid]

I've been immobilized with an upper respiratory infection since new years. It finally broke today and I got back to work, so I'm a bit behind where I'd like to be with my gift. A couple more nights at the fly tying bench and I'll have it ready to go. The fly box turned out pretty sweet though. If I would have made it a bit smaller I could probably could fill it faster though. Oh well, those extra flies will come in handy if my guy casts any thing like I do.

I will include instructions for fishing the flies from a spinning rod too, just in case my guy lacks the proper equipment. They should be more or less equally effective regardless of set up. I have a few other odds and ends ready to go as well.