spar bow

[MAACCY 105]

hi ive been searching the internet for a bow perch for a female spar i cant find one small enough the smallest i can find is for a male harris ive looked at ben longs website and various other ones any help will be gratefull cheers kieron

[hok boi 40]

why use a bow when it will wreck your birds tail feathers from bating.

make a loop perch, much better

[Blaze 49]

why use a bow when it will wreck your birds tail feathers from bating.

make a loop perch, much better

 

 

A well designed Bow will not do any damage to decks at all!

[Berkutchi 0]

Look up Emma Fords Falconry Art And Pratice,its measurements are spot on for a spar bow imho and will cost around £7 to make by a blacksmith!

Edited March 17, 2007 by Berkutchi

[jasper65 6]

simple cure for braking Decks is a tail sheaf! easy to make and can be clipped on or one made to pop over a tail bell, wrap it round and secure the edges with Velcro, a tail sheaf will always come in handy for any Mantling Imprints or a youngster coming straight out of the aviary while its at its heavy Bateing stage.....

[Berkutchi 0]

this may help with the measurements and style for a spar bow.

[jasper65 6]

I saw a cracking idea Millet where a bloke used some 15mm copper water pipe and bent it to make the bow, at each end he heat soldered a T connector and on each end of this he soldered a some more pipeing about 8" long so it could stand as a indoor bow, the feet was then filled with Sand or something heavier to stop the bird from dragging, a ring should be added to the bow before you put the feet on and hey presto all you need to do is add your padding to the top of the perch .....

 

I'm not saying its much good for much else but for a spar its perfect......

[MAACCY 105]

cheers for that lads a mate of mine flew a musket last year and used to keep his on a block about 4 inch diamter what are your views on this due to them been branhing birds cheers

[David 9]

MAKE THAT ONE LAST BECAUSE THE NEXT ONE WILL COST :whistle:

[jasper65 6]

That'll do how it is Millet , its a cracking job and I would'nt use Astro on it! the trouble is with Astro if you have a small ring and I know Gimplets have small rings , the ring won't pull over to the oposite side of the bow without getting caught on the Astro first, I have a old bow here I have had for years which is rope bound like yours with no trouble, leather bound round the top is ideal or some of these Rubber bound bows look nice, either that or get a larger Ring :whistle:.....

 

Jasper

[PUG 3]

hi ive been searching the internet for a bow perch for a female spar i cant find one small enough the smallest i can find is for a male harris ive looked at ben longs website and various other ones any help will be gratefull cheers kieron

 

Martin Jones sells a nice bow perch suitable for a spar, is what I use for mine, has detachable spikes so you can convert it from an outdoors perch into an indoor perch.

 

Cheers,

 

PUG