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bow-toxo:

--- Quote from: Yewboy on November 03, 2009, 05:03:02 am ---
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.

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        I know that the arrow sizes are as you say. I did not mean the entire collection as a group. I tried to say; a sheaf of arrows together in the same disc are all 24 the same length. In another sheaf they may be a different length from those in the first sheaf.

CraigMBeckett:
adb,

In looking at the photograph you posted the witness mark, (if indeed it is a witness mark), seems to show an offset fetching  going from near the lower left hand edge to the right centre of the shaft. Or is this just a function of the photograph?

Craig.

Yewboy:
I actually took the photo that adb has shown and the quill marks are most definately straight, there are many others as well.
I think that what Alex was referring to was the helical binding that holds the fletch in place and not the actual fletch being attached helically.

CraigMBeckett:
Yewboy ,

Thanks for the information, if you have other photos of the fletching area I would appreciate it if you posted them or pointed to a link where I may view them.

Craig.

Yewboy:

--- Quote from: CraigMBeckett on November 04, 2009, 07:33:58 am ---Yewboy ,

Thanks for the information, if you have other photos of the fletching area I would appreciate it if you posted them or pointed to a link where I may view them.

Craig.

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Hi Craig,
Mark Stretton and I have just produced a Dvd on fletching medieval arrows and this shows many of the arrows close up and you can see the fletching imprints, this is also evident on the arrow found in Westminster abbey
it will be available from Monday, pm me if you want details of where to buy it
thanks

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