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Grinding Your Own....(Bodkins)
duffontap:
Does anyone have a reasonably easy way to grind out bodkins and drill out a tapered socket? The ones I've forged are so bad they're not worth using. I'm having a heck of a time finding reasonably-priced bodkins in the US and I'm not quite rich enough to order them from England.
J. D. Duff
Pat B:
Josh I have a few made by a friend and he said he had the best results wrapping metal around a mandrill for the socket then forming the point. The ones we tried to drill out didn't work well at all.
Pat
ratty:
:-\ if there is such a strict definition on the English warbow ,should there not also be the same enthusiasm and strict definition for the bodkins / fletchings & arrow shafts ? :-\
:-\ hand forged?
maybe a NEW thread should be started. WHAT IS "WAR ARROW" ? (just an idea) :)
Yeomanbowman:
--- Quote from: ratty on June 05, 2007, 03:50:35 am ---maybe a NEW thread should be started. WHAT IS "WAR ARROW" ? (just an idea) :)
--- End quote ---
Good idea, a section on war arrows would be interesting. Here are some examples carved on Prince Arthur's Chantry chaple.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q280/yeomanbowman/feathers.jpg
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q280/yeomanbowman/shafts.jpg
Note the rounded edges on the back of the fletches and the Tudor bodkins. They were posted before on the old forum but perhaps some have not seen them, and I think they are worth a look.
This is a replica made by Hector Cole.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q280/yeomanbowman/Dscn6987.jpg
Sorry for going off tread :-[
Cheers,
Jeremy
heavybow:
jeremy thats a cool arrow head. hector cole head made differnt tutor head marlon
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