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Differences in Bodkin points?

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Uncouth:
Wayne Goddard has a book called the $50 Knife Shop that talks about how to set up an inexpensive home forge, and talks about different types of steel, hardening and tempering, of course it is geared toward making knives, but I don't know why the forge and the principles couldn't be used for making arrowheads.

Loki:
Didnt Bruce use old Anchors for his points?

Miles:
Here's a test that I did with my old 16 gauge heat-treated breastplate and some Botkin tipped arrows if you look at the types 7 needlepoint bodkins did not fare well.

 Normally this type of head gets the best penetration in my target out of my bodkins tips and the type 7 needlepoint bodkins eats chain mail for breakfast I have some very nice riveted chain mail that a needlepoint bodkins penetrate an 1 1/2 inches without breaking the rivets pushed in with my pinky finger.(I’ll work on taking photo show why it's so good versus chain mail)

The next one is a type 8 bodkin in if you look at the tip you'll see is flattened a little bit when it hit the target deflected sharply to left at an odd angle it was very cool looking to.

You can see some small dense on the breastplate in this particular piece of armor is not a good example of the later 15th-century type of armor that was heat-treated spring steel in made to optimize deflected sloping for protection versus arrows.

Cheers Miles

I like Shooting stuff

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D. Tiller:
Neat! You going to try some Tudor and Heavy Bodking points next?

Miles:
Hi D. Tiller
--- Quote from: D. Tiller on May 09, 2007, 10:26:26 pm ---Neat! You going to try some Tudor and Heavy Bodking points next?

--- End quote ---
May be some time down the road I can make up the Tudor style heavy bodkin heads arrows.

I’m looking to demonstrate the effectiveness of three basic missile weapons, war bow(my favorite), crossbow(powerful but slowwww) and handgun (to loud) of the later half 15th-century period to demonstrate the effectiveness and show the pros and cons of each of the weapons.

Cheers Miles

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