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how to fletch blowgun dart?

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yazoo:
could someone do a how to, build along, I really need some help thanks

mullet:
 Mike, Hillbilly's friend, Barry McCaull made some realy nice ones. He wrapped Thistle down or Milkweed around the end of the shaft. It was tied on with sinew. They shot real good.

Tom Leemans:
I made some out of piano wire once and dipped the end in glue and twisted a cotton ball on the end. They flew much faster and more accurate than those commercial jobs. I got that idea from watching some natives in the Amazon rain forrest on PBS. They were hitting monkeys 30-50 feet up in a tree!

zeNBowyer:
Here's a  previous  thread by   Stickbender on how-to:

 Like Zach said, the Cherokees, would use milk thistle fluff.  They would gather them, and when dry, they would wind them on the dart shafts.  They would cut a notch in the back of the dart, to attach the string, when they reached it.  They would start a few inches down from the non pointed end of the dart, and make a few wraps around the dart.  They used a method of laying the thistle out in their hands, and rolling, applying the thistle fluff, and wrapping the string at the same time, and when they reached the end, they would tug the string into the notch, or slit, and cut the string off.  Takes a little practice, but the result is pretty neat.  Then they would put the dart in the blow gun and trim off the excess fluff.  The result was a very neat dart.  It  looked sort of like a Pussy Willow bulb on the end of a stick

Hillbilly:
It's fairly easy to show, almost impossible to describe. I learned to fletch them from a Cherokee blowgun maker on the Qualla Boundary. I haven't done it in awhile, would take some practice to get back into the swing of it.

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