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Hector cole heads have arrived with a slight problem.

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Lloyd:
yes, you can cut the shoulder with a sharp knife but in my experience it's hit or miss and sometimes quite literally bloody too. I use my arrow saw to cut several grooves in the shaft starting where the shoulder will be and moving towards the tip. I make the cut as deep as the interior diameter of the socket. Then you can use those grooves as a guide for sanding or rasping or whatever your preferred method of shaping the point taper on the shaft. It takes a while but I've found it to be the most reliable method for me.

kerbinator:
Ya know I hope you don't mind, Youngbowyer my posting on this thread.  But here is a question for any passer buy. In war times when these various types of point where used. How did they attach the points to the arrows?...... Was it with epoxy or did they merely just drive them on?

Purbeck:


There was no epoxy glue so they must have used the glues of the time. I seem to rember reading that medieval glues were not up to much! I have also seen somewhere that some of the hunting heads of that period were pinned to the shaft through the socket. This was probably in addition to the use of glue?

Purbeck

youngbowyer:

--- Quote from: kerbinator on February 24, 2009, 10:22:47 pm ---Ya know I hope you don't mind, Youngbowyer my posting on this thread.  But here is a question for any passer buy. In war times when these various types of point where used. How did they attach the points to the arrows?...... Was it with epoxy or did they merely just drive them on?

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In war times they used beeswax so if u tried to pull the arrow out the head would stay in spreading infections. Hunters would use bluebell sap and they might have pinned it to the shaft. Although some people think a pinned shaft was used with a fire arrows to keep the glue from melting.

Hope this helps,cheers,

Tom.

Rod:
It is probably worth discussing the type and size of shaft with Hector when ordering so that he can make an appropriate socket size.

Last time I spoke with Chris Boyton he mentioned that there was some evidence showing that the same mix that was used to coat the shaftment might have been used to fix heads.

Given the copper content of this mix it might have been unhealthy to be wounded even with a sterile point, before we even consider the fact that points werre not sterile and that shafts might have been stuck in the ground.
With the prevalence of dysentery on campaign and the use of night soil and animal manure in agriculture then the risk of infection seems great.

Rod.

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