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how to fletch blowgun dart?
uwe:
Wasn`t there something on "You Tube"?
recurve shooter:
if your not determined to go primitive, just get a box of those paper cone cups like for those kentwood water despensers. cut a small hole in the bottom of the cup, pus the dart through, glue or tape it on, and trim the cone to fit your gun. easy and works well.
stickbender:
Yazoo, go to You tube, and look up Cherokee blow gun. It has a video of a guy making a dart. You basically just line up the fluff, in the palm of your hand, and the dart has a notch cut in the end. You put the string in the notch, and while rolling the the notched end with the string in the fluff, and pushing the dart up towards the web of your hand, you will start winding the string and fluff around the dart shaft, till you are out of fluff, and then you can put a loop, and wind over it, and then stick the tag end of the string in it, and pull it back under the wrap, or just tie a knot, or glue it. Then trim the end of the fluff even. It is much easier to watch, than to try to explain it in writing. The You Tube site has a much better explanation in video form. ;)
Wayne
islandpiper:
I punch out cylinders of firm packing foam rubber and glue them on, then spin them on the belt sander to make them sort of thinner at the leading end Easy, fast and accurate. Punch out the foam with a sharpened pipe of the proper diameter. Electrical conduit is about the best. piper
swamp monkey:
This is not a build a long but I described as best I could my process in this post: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,23209.0.html If a photo by photo documentation would be better perhaps that can be arranged.
I would appreciate someone showing me more about the cotton wrap method. That method does not yield the product that others can obtain and I want to push forward with quality.
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