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Lead/Tin heads?

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makenzie71:
Anyone ever use them?  Have to be a smaller head, I know.  I just found a bunch of babbitt I had a for a while and am trying to think of a use for it.

ZanderPommo:
tin could be used in a survival situation, but other than that I wouldn't even think of aiming an arrow at a living animal with a head made of such inferior metal.
not even a yote or a racoon
......maybe a rat??

Robert E. Leet:
Has anyone here ever tried making ceramic arrow head blanks and then grinding and sanding them down to sharpen them, then glaze and fire them?  Think it would be hard enough?

Swamp Bow:

--- Quote from: Killcode on December 30, 2009, 05:44:47 pm ---Has anyone here ever tried making ceramic arrow head blanks and then grinding and sanding them down to sharpen them, then glaze and fire them?  Think it would be hard enough?

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Just use stone, or if you really want ceramic, use "johnstone".  Don't know if anyone has used fired ceramic arrowheads though.

Swamp

ZanderPommo:
also cannot sharpen them easily, and may be very very brittle. more so than a knapped head i would think.
dunno though

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