Some free advice

[WhistlingBadger]

1.  Don't treat the fletched area of your shafts with boiled linseed oil.  It dissolves adhesives, and soaks so far into the wood that, even after repeated scrubbings with rubbing alcohol and fine-grit sand paper, nothing will stick to it.

2.  Don't decide to boil the alcohol out of your home-made arrow varnish on the kitchen stove when it's -20F outside and the family is trying to get ready for church.

This is why I like trying new things:  It keeps me humble.

T

[WhistlingBadger]

3.  Especially don't do the above when you have a big 3d shoot coming up in a week, and you haven't been able to practice at all because you ruined all your good arrows and are not trying to just get a few put together that will fly more-or-less straight.

Yep, Mr. Murphy has taken up residence in my quiver...

[Mesophilic]

Don't  steam watter buffalo horn in the house while you wife is around...or may be home within several hours. 

Don't try to teach your wife's cat a lesson by lacing something he/she keeps chewing on with 4 million Scoville unit hot sauce...the panting and foaming at rhe mouth will teach the cat the intended lesson but your wife's ire knows no bounds.

And if you ever try to shoot with a thumb ring make sure it fits properly...a thumb ring hitting your bow hand from full draw really hurts.

[Hawkdancer]

Don't cook brains for tanning on the kitchen stove, especially in cold weather!
Also, remember - Murphy's Law is governed by Mc Connell's Theorum:  Murphy is an optimist!
Hawkdancer

[WhistlingBadger]

Ah, you guys are making me feel better about myself.  Other than feeling a bit dull from inhalation of alcohol fumes, no harm done.

Jerry, ever heard Murphy's Law of Plate Tectonics?  Everything east of the San Andreas Fault is eventually going to slide into the Atlantic Ocean.

T

[Mesophilic]

Anything I can do to cheer a guy up 

When melting scrap copper don't use a scrap steel gas bottle protection cap, use a real crucible.   A couple of pounds of molten copper burning through the bottom of the steel becomes a real mess in your forge.

Oh, and one of my most brilliant moments in earning a badge of stupidity involved trying to turn an empty beer bottle in to a drinking glass (yes I was sober and did not drink the beer)...wear safety goggles...when the bottle broke along the scoring line a sliver of glass shot out and speared my cornea and I had to make an emergency trip to the eye doctor...wear saftey glasses...I'll say it again, wear safetly glasses.

[PaulN/KS]

Don't confuse Gold Bond cream with Preparation H... 

[WhistlingBadger]

Don't confuse Gold Bond cream with Preparation H... 

owwwwwwww   

[JEB]

Don't burn feathers in the house with your Young feather burner.

[Hawkdancer]

Ah, you guys are making me feel better about myself.  Other than feeling a bit dull from inhalation of alcohol fumes, no harm done.

Jerry, ever heard Murphy's Law of Plate Tectonics?  Everything east of the San Andreas Fault is eventually going to slide into the Atlantic Ocean.

T

[JW_Halverson]

Don't confuse Gold Bond cream with Preparation H... 

Or confuse Prep H with your tooth paste

[WhistlingBadger]

OK, since this conversation keeps going toward stupid things we do to our spouses, I will put this here for your consideration.  I won't tell you how many of these I've done...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpFD-kgQxnI

[jimmi the sammi]

GREAT presentation there!  Had a good laugh with this one.

[warpath]

Don't use the feather burner in the house without a very strong exhaust fan!!!

  G-Monee

[WhistlingBadger]

Don't use the feather burner in the house without a very strong exhaust fan!!!

  G-Monee

That seems to be a recurring theme, here...