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Author Topic: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics  (Read 767 times)

Offline 300lbleaf

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how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« on: October 25, 2007, 09:33:00 PM »
ok.
i started out with six maple and dogwood shoots.
cut dried and they were almost all the way scraped...
 
next i had to heat straighten them...

 

 

now the shafts are ready to be cut all to the same length,and i made sure that the nock and the point end were very close to matching sizes...

then i marked my starting points for my self nocks, here i used a hacksaw blade with tape to score and a tile blade to finish the cut...
 
 
 
now i sand the inside a little...and dress it up...
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Re: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2007, 09:36:00 PM »

 
 
 
i previously cut and stripped right wing turkey feathers the night before....
 
stripped and chewed a little of last years deer backstrap sinew..
 
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Re: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2007, 09:36:00 PM »
fletched them up and added wraps at the fore and aft of  feather, and also rienforced the nock...
 
 
 
and now for the buisness end. i just marka common distance...from end of my finger to first joint, then i draw a circle in the center of the shoot so i do NOT REMOVE THIS AREA!
and start removing wood.
 
 
 
 
and thats what im working on now.whew.
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Re: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2007, 10:56:00 PM »
Nice work, Jamie and a great pictorial. Ain't them shoot arrows fun! I use mostly sourwood but have used red osier, gray dogwood, silky dogwood and viburnum. I have not tried maple yet but there is plenty around. Shoots make some of the toughest arrows around.   Pat
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Re: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2007, 11:07:00 PM »
Show us more. Great job
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Re: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2007, 11:46:00 PM »
kool... looking great so far...
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Re: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2007, 11:56:00 PM »
great tutoriol... keep em' coming...  :thumbsup:
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Re: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2007, 04:20:00 AM »
Good job! Great pics too....
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Re: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2007, 07:07:00 AM »
Great, Jamie, just great - and fine praise from one of the nicest "shoot arrow gurus" I know, Pat B; that's rewarding, trust me    :archer:
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Re: how i make primitive arrows... w/pics
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2007, 11:21:00 AM »
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