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Medieval Fletching
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: Davepim on November 02, 2009, 09:41:45 am ---Sorry Bow-toxo, I misunderstood what you were saying. Your source tells you that the arrow-shafts were all of the same length in the arrow-bags? As well as having helical fletching? Did I get this right?
Dave
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Not quite.The helical fletching, yes. Arrow bags were not mentioned. In given leather discs, at least some of them, all arrows were the same length as might be expected if they were from a competentfletcher.
triton:
take any pictures of the arrows? From what I've seen the fletches were laid in the glue straight. helical makes sense but art works (call it art if you like but they were more like news paper photographs IMO) show fletches straight, even the clumsy pictures. Photographs of artifacts seem to show a straight line where the quill was stuck
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: triton on November 02, 2009, 03:10:00 pm ---take any pictures of the arrows? From what I've seen the fletches were laid in the glue straight. helical makes sense but art works (call it art if you like but they were more like news paper photographs IMO) show fletches straight, even the clumsy pictures. Photographs of artifacts seem to show a straight line where the quill was stuck
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No pictures.
Yewboy:
The fletchings were all straight, not helical, Have just finished a fletching DVD with Mark Stretton and we have filmed these arrows from the MR and they show close ups of where the Fletching lay in the glue and they are straight.....all of the ones that have the glue still in place, there is not one arrow there which has any evidence of a helical fletch.....Sorry Bow-Toxo, I am sure you mis heard Alex's answer.
Also the lengths of the arrows does differ, there are arrows of 27" right through to 33" but the vast majority are 30.5", these are also covered in the DVD in some detail.
adb:
I ask again, bow-toxo, what evidence is Alex basing her statement of "helical" fletching on? I have seen the Mary Rose arrows myself as well, and the evidence marks look straight to me.
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