made a quick one tonite,and made a slideshow...
here is what i used.
pc of seasoned dogwood...
4 strands of sinew...
a heat source...
2 turkey feathers...
pine pitch...
dacite stemmed point...
sharp knife...
animal fat...
quick rundown,
roughly clean up the bark and twigs from the dogwood branch.
somooth up just with sharp edge of blade acting like a scraper.
shape nock area into a nice "dome" shape.
take a course of sinew and rienforce the nock about 3/4 inch from the end.
then use your sharp knife to split the dome , only to the wraping.
then i cut the shaft to desired length,and use the leftover pc to take a donor "wedge".
take this donor wedge and make sure it is as wide as the nock, no more.
then wedge into the split into the dome shaped tip.
push it down to the wraping.
take two turkey feathers and cut them to desired length.
pull off excess like pictured in the slide show.
tie down the featheres to be upside down and away, as pictured with the second course of sinew.
now adjust feathers so that when laid flat the feathers will line up with wedge nock.
then use a wrapped whip technique to tie down feathers, be sure to pull down tight,and secure them with the third course of sinew.
i cut my notch to fit the arrowhead stem,but you can do the same method as the nock end at the tip, but you must use a slightly longer wedge and double the length from the notch back from the front of the arrow and wrap.
now i heat up my pitch stick,and apply to a pre heated notch,then to a preheated point,and then i fit together and work thepitch and fill in all the voids in thenotch to make a seamless fit.
then i heat up a little more pitch and work it around behind the "shoulders" of the point and smooth down nicely.
i then take my last course of sinew and wrap behind the tip to realy secure it down and prevent splitting of the shaft.
* note * if you used the wedge method ,the wedge will act as a "wall" to the stem on the back of the head and not loose energy to the shaft by splitting it ,but instead it will keep driving home as it is a very sturdy setup.
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