Primitive Rose Arrow

[Jodocus]

This one is from a rose shoot, bishops's hat preshaft and nock, some local flint, roe sinew, nettle tread, red ochre, pine pitch and pigeon feathers. The point, joints as well as the grove closest to the nock are tied up with sinew. It's fully functional with a spine of 45, nicely centered, but will probably remain a display arrow 

[Jodocus]

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[Danzn Bar]

  looking arra...........but what is the groves at the points and nocks for??  seams to me it would weaken the shaft. 
DBar

[mullet]

looking arra...........but what is the groves at the points and nocks for??  seams to me it would weaken the shaft. 
DBar

+1

[Drewster]

Cool arrow and well done.  Is that a fore shaft?  Can't quite tell.

[Pat B]

I too was wondering about the grooves, both at the nock and the point ends. Knowing that rose shafts have a pitch down the center you don't have much wood in those notches. I don't think the sinew wraps help.
 It is a cool looking arrow though. 

[Jodocus]

Cool arrow and well done.  Is that a fore shaft?  Can't quite tell.

Sorry if i wasn't clear, yes it is a solid foreshaft. The rose shaft is hollow, thus very light for it's spine, but it can not take the strain on the nock and tip. The groves are soley decorative. Bishop's hat ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euonymus_europaeus ) is very hard, and the full diameter preshaft and nock thing would just have been overdimensioned compared to the rose, so I took the freedom to cut the groves. I think the rose shaft is still the weakest point.

But I agree, on a workhorse arrow I'd certainly not do this.

[Buckeye Guy]

Sweet !