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Offline punch

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Show me your foreshafting drill
« on: July 21, 2015, 05:25:56 pm »
I am going to be adding foreshaft to my mulefat arrows.  What are you using to drill out the shafts?  A photo would be great with how deep you set your foreshafting. I have done a few but have not been happy with the drilling method.

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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2015, 05:39:26 pm »
I guess you don't want to see a picture of my metal lathe. Drills holes right in the center ;D

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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2015, 06:16:33 pm »
No that is cheating.... just kidding.  But I am looking for something more like a hand tool.

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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2015, 08:26:36 pm »
Why are you adding foreshafts to mulefat shafts? Isn't it pretty hard, tough wood?
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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2015, 11:36:41 am »
I wanted to be able to change between broad heads and target points.  Also I was thinking of using a hardwood foreshaft sharpened instead of a field points.  Mulefat is pretty strong but I also wanted to get away from relying on store bought field points.

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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2015, 11:48:15 am »
I've only made a few arrows with foreshafts but they were all cane. Never tried to drill a dowel. Primitives use a stone drill. I guess you could use a twist drill but it wouldn't be a tapered hole.
 When I made horn nocks for a yew war bow I used a 1/2" spade it that I modified to a tapered shape. I guess you could do the same with a 3/8" or 7/16" spade bit and match the taper on the fore shaft to that.
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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2015, 12:06:07 pm »
You can cut a typical point taper on them.I have never done it with mulefat. But I have with sourwood, hill cane, river cane, boo and all the common turned shafting. Works great. That means you can swap out points all you want without fore shafting.
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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2015, 09:16:43 am »

I just gave one away and this one isn't completely finished, I need to adjust the taper. I try to make mine small enough to fit on a keychain. It's cut out of a 16 gauge? steel cabinet door. It can handle the heat that gets built up while drilling. You can put it in a vice or hold it in your hand. It works for me....

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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2015, 09:19:23 am »
Cool little tool there, Thunder but you are drilling cane in the pic. Have you tried dowels or hardwood shoot arrows with that tool?
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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2015, 09:49:21 am »
I havent tried it on dowels or hardwood shoots but it might work if it was pointed and had a knife like edge on it.
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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2015, 12:43:56 pm »
Here is a link to an article about how Ishi did it.
http://www.archerylibrary.com/articles/pope/yahi-archery/the-arrow1.html
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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #11 on: July 23, 2015, 01:09:13 pm »
This is for bamboo arrows but you might get something out of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK5INvoNTdk

Start at 14:00 minutes for the drilling but you'll want to watch the whole thing. Turn on the closed captioning for an English narration. Love watching these pros.

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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2015, 04:10:21 am »
Putting a solid foreshaft on a solid wood shaft is a waste of time! No real good reason to do it unless you want a lot of weight forward which is still not a good enough reason in my book as fast as I loose and break arrows.
North american natives would only do it on river can just to make the arrow stronger on the business end.
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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2015, 10:50:50 am »
Fiddler the kumeyaay which used mulefat used a foreshaft on them.  That is part of the reason I was looking at it.  Mulefat is pretty strong but it still has the soft pith in the middle.

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Re: Show me your foreshafting drill
« Reply #14 on: July 24, 2015, 01:27:12 pm »
  Whats wrong with a power dill and bit. Or are you trying to keep it primitive. Dos'nt do much good like others on here. You'll  use a belt sander and band saw but wont't use a power drill on arrows. I've know and do know people that do just that.
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