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Arrow Made with Stone Tools

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JackCrafty:
Wrapping the point with sinew & fish glue.

JackCrafty:
The feathers.
Wild turkey...."jake" tails.






I used a split limb of juniper for a cutting board, bark removed, of course.






Splitting the feathers.
















Shaving down the quill.







Sanding down high spots.






Cutting the vanes.
This requires some finesse and is harder than it looks.
(It's a two handed operation but I'm using my left hand to hold the camera.)
With my left index finger, I hold down each segment as I cut.





Repeat.

billy:
Great build along!  Great pictures too!  Love it!

Staver:
Excellent Build-a-Long!! 8)  Beautiful arrows and your stone-age tools are great.  How did you make your "smoother"?  Thanks for sharing your incredible knowledge and talent.  Joe H

JackCrafty:
Thanks Billy. :)

Thanks Staver.  I made the smoother out of two slabs of sandstone.  It's easy to break the sandstone and shape it with a hammerstone....kinda like knapping.  After I got the rough shape, I ground them down by rubbing them on the concrete pad next to my workshop. ;D

I made the grove down the center with a spall of agate.....by scraping and scraping until the channel was shaped like a "V".  Then I used a piece of sanstone to make the channel "U" shaped.

It took me about 1-1/2" hours (and a lot of elbow grease) to make the two pieces.

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