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EWBS Quarter Pounders
WillS:
Just finished putting the heads on these quarter pounder arrows, thought I'd stick a piccy or two up for anybody interested. Nice chunky handforged plate cutters by Milos again as well.
Half inch ash shafts that I split from a stave too short to be a decent bow, and ran them through a dowel cutter. The last third is tapered down to 3/8".
Goose feather fletchings, 7.5" long, whipped with black silk.
40 gram hand-forged plate cutters, which bring the overall arrow weight to 115g, or 1774 grains.
toomanyknots:
Sexy. :) I like the noticeably thin thread, probably will be easy on the hand when shooting, and easy on the bow too. Did you seal the thread with anything? It always breaks on me if I don't. I use a transparent glue whenever I find some in a store, although I was thinking of trying out some tru oil, or any similar finish i could paint over the thread with a small paint brush.
Del the cat:
Nice... don't want to get in the way of one of those bad boys ;D
Del
WillS:
I tend to seal the shaft before fletching with danish oil, then fletch and wrap, then go over the thread with pva glue followed by more danish oil to stop the pva going white when it gets wet. Not a good look!
I wanna try making up some verdigris compound at some point, that would be interesting!
AndiE:
Hi
Great stuff!!!
Kind regards
Andi
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