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Offline SA

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Re: birch arrows
« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2010, 08:47:39 pm »
thanks for all the positive feedback, pat b i got the birch dowls from woodcraft  in okc.
Shawn Acker

Offline PeteC

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Re: birch arrows
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2010, 09:37:09 pm »
Nice arrows sa.You did good. God Bless
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Offline ShinneryOak

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Re: birch arrows
« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2010, 07:33:54 pm »
Very pretty, like the fletch wraps. i was reading a 10yr old PA article just today on "Tying Off Your Arrows" that looks identical . If you grind antler or bone be sure to wear a good dust mask, your lungs will thank you!

Offline stickbender

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Re: birch arrows
« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2010, 11:32:36 pm »

     That dust mask goes as well for knapping also..... ;)

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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: birch arrows
« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2010, 11:39:32 pm »
How does the "field tip" attach to the shaft? 

Nice work!
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Offline SA

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Re: birch arrows
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2010, 02:06:47 am »
i filed the end to  about 3/16'' in diam. (about a 1/2'' ) then drilled and glued it in  , then cut a groove  aboot 1/16'' from the end  with a file and secured it w/a wrap
Shawn Acker

Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: birch arrows
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2010, 02:41:10 pm »
Ahhh, I see.....

I was envisioning drilling a tapered hole in the antler, sawing a nock in the shaft and a corresponding tab in the antler, or all kinds of more ocmplicated and thus more likely to fail technologies.  Funny how I can take something simple and complicate it beyond all reason.  Maybe I have a future with the IRS?
Guns have triggers. Bicycles have wheels. Trees and bows have wooden limbs.

Offline rattus58

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Re: birch arrows
« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2011, 12:44:27 am »
Ahhh, I see.....

I was envisioning drilling a tapered hole in the antler, sawing a nock in the shaft and a corresponding tab in the antler, or all kinds of more ocmplicated and thus more likely to fail technologies.  Funny how I can take something simple and complicate it beyond all reason.  Maybe I have a future with the IRS?

 ;D