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How do I fletch a Soar's Battle shaft?
stevesjem:
--- Quote from: D. Tiller on December 04, 2008, 12:40:42 pm ---I've been shooting self nocked arrows in bows up to 75#'s with no problems. I think it is when we get up higher than that that we can have trouble. What I do is I wrap the arrows up to the groove and glue up the wraps. Seems to hold together pretty well. I've shot these arrows repeatedly with no splitting even in the shoot shafts I have made.
I don't think warbows were just being shot for war. There was practice, in the medieval ages, every sunday after church for two hours. So they must have been shooting there own arrows more than just a couple times. Are the Mary Rose arrows reinforced? We should take into account also that the Mary Rose was the flagship of the fleet and probably had the best equipment onboard.
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All the arrows on the MR were reinforced with cow horn, all the arrows show the grooves that were cut in the shaft for the horn, also they have about 12 horn slivers that survived and these fit perfectly into the grooves in the shaft and they even show the remnants of the nock slot.
The Westminster abbey arrow also shows the same groove cut in it.
Steve
Yeomanbowman:
--- Quote from: D. Tiller on December 04, 2008, 12:40:42 pm ---Are the Mary Rose arrows reinforced? We should take into account also that the Mary Rose was the flagship of the fleet and probably had the best equipment onboard.
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Only with the horn not with a binding.
youngbowyer:
After I had mad 12 arrows for my 35 pound horsebow only 4 remained because my nocks split. Now i always make horn reinforced nocks.
D. Tiller:
Did you wrap them up to the notch? If not, try it. The wrap acts as a strengthening agent like the horn. Native American arrows and others have been made like this for centuries with heavy weight bows. I've been doing this and never had one split on me.
youngbowyer:
I wrapped em tight with cotton thread.
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