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		<title>Battle Sticks</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/10/31/battle-sticks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 22:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my 5 year old likes to play fight, or "battle" as he calls it. Usually it involves me or his mom getting whacked with a toy sword or something. To tide him over before going out trick or treating, I figured I'd make a couple of training sticks out of pvc pipe and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bevy of Blanks</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/10/22/a-bevy-of-blanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weather was still good so I decided to cut a bunch of stick blanks. 4 ash wood, 2 yellowheart, and 2 Indonesian kayu. Slowly building up the armory.]]></description>
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		<title>Yellowheart Sticks</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/10/09/yellowheart-sticks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 19:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning I bought some short hardwood boards, including a piece of yellowheart. I was quite anxious to work with the yellowheart and the weather today was perfect for working outside. I figured there may not be too many more days I can take advantage of before winter, so I spent this morning shaping two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lead Headed Training Club</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/09/27/lead-headed-training-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had one last scrap piece of hickory left over from the original board I purchased a few months ago. It was 32" long, which was too short for a full walking stick, but I was inspired today after looking at other people's knot work to just make myself a light club with a lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birch Sticks</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/09/18/birch-sticks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine had some pieces of birch he was saving for bow making and he decided he wanted to use one for some sticks instead. The piece I used had lost a big chunk along about a quarter of one end but I managed to get two 38" walking sticks and two 28" [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hickory Sticks (The Fighting Irish Kind)</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/07/27/hickory-sticks-the-fighting-irish-kind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven't had a ton of time to finish projects, although I did find time to make a couple of Irish sticks. 38" long made of hickory. The one on the right is my current practice stick, thin and light, but tough enough to bang with.]]></description>
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		<title>Bow #3</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/07/10/bow-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Partially successful. Made out of a 6' 1x4 maple board with a pyramid shape to the limbs and some scrap hickory glued on for the handle riser. I made the handle section slightly too long but it seems to be working well enough. The hickory adds a lot of necessary stiffening through the middle. Originally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloodwood &#8211; FAIL!</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/07/04/bloodwood-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not sure exactly why, but my bloodwood cudgel cracked while I was practicing with it today. I surmise that there was an inherent weakness in the wood grain and while I was whacking at a free swinging padded post  I managed to hit against a corner of that post. I was mildly upset about this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sticks</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/07/01/sticks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the early failure of the day's bow project I spent some time hand shaping some sticks with my spokeshave. First up was a hickory Irish stick. It wasn't too bad to work with the shave but it seemed to be more sensitive to grain direction than my previous experience with red oak.  Made this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bow #2 &#8211; FAIL!</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/07/01/bow-2-fail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doh! Snapped as I was flexing it during tillering. So close. Should have backed it. At least I didn't spend a ton of time on it. And I did make a tillering stick last night so I can use that in future. I think I'll just work on an Irish stick for the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shark Tooth Weapons of Ancient Hawai&#8217;i</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/06/28/shark-tooth-weapons-of-ancient-hawaii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the material of the book Warrior Arts and Weapons of Ancient Hawai'i is available on Google Books, including the chapter on the construction of shark tooth weapons. There was a recent episode of Deadliest Warrior that demonstrated a recreation of an Aztec war club made of wood embedded with obsidian that functions much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Made Arrows 2</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/06/26/home-made-arrows-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my cheap and expedient arrows seemed to do the trick and everyone was surprised at how easy and effective the duct tape fletchings were. Made 6 arrows in the morning before class, even managed to put a coat of tung oil on them, and even managed to put one together while I was at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Made Arrows</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/06/23/home-made-arrows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found place that sells cheap target points and plastic nocks for roughly $0.20 each and bought a small handful of each. Then I bought some poplar dowels and some duct tape in red and black at Lowes. When I got home I picked out one of the dowels and tried to straighten it. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowmaking 3</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/06/20/bowmaking-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well I know that my tillering is off by about 1/2" but this is one of those situations where I'm happy enough to leave things where they are so I can finish and start playing. I'll know better what to do for the next one. Used my palm sander on it this morning with progressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irish Stick Making 2 &#8211; Real Hardwoods</title>
		<link>http://fullcontactgeek.com/wordpress/2010/06/13/irish-stick-making-2-real-hardwoods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FCG</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picked up a cheap bandsaw and some scraps of various hardwoods to mess around with. I wanted to see how my drawknife and spokeshave handled much harder woods than red oak or white maple. Today I made a short stick out of purpleheart and a longer but thinner stick out of hickory. I started one [...]]]></description>
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