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How do you install your stone points?
Pat B:
Justin, You caught me! ;D Damn, you are perceptive! ;)
That would probably work better in the hot, dry western states than pitch but not as well as pitch here in the humid east. Pat
jamie:
i favor spruce with some rendered fat in it. ive used hide glue before but find it reguires more of a custom fit on the shaft and im just too lazy for that. ;D. peace
D. Tiller:
Any of you ever tried tar? I've done it and put a smidgen of wood ash or ground charcol in with it. Head and aply like Hillbilly mentioned. It works great and is natrurally waterproof. The native Californian indians along the coast used this same method for attaching points and waterproofing their wovend containers. Water sure must have tasted funny! ;D
episaacs:
I have some natural bitumin coming to me; I'm going to try to haft some with that. This AM I took a chunk of dried pine sap and lit it on an incense disc. It burned with a black smoke for a while, then left a dab of black ash and a puddle of the clearest amber resin you've ever seen. Brittle as glass.
mullet:
I cut my shafts so the arrow fits real tight.Then apply a drop of TB3 and slide the point in.I then wrap it with sinew soaked in watered down TB3.I have used roofing tar with grass cuttings and ashes.It added too much wieght to the point and not smooth enough for me.For a primitive look I've mixed up ground pine sap and charcoal with TB3.Can't tell the difference looking at it and smells like turpentine ;)
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