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clewis:
A few atlatls I made a while ago and have been using for some time, so I decided they needed some color (red and yellowish ochre) sealed up with poly. The hooked stick works awesome and the other is loosely based on the basket maker type, just have to reassemble it now.

bjrogg:
Strange thing Clewis, I just got on the site to ask about Atlatls and darts. I know just enough about them to be dangerous. I have a really nice Red Osier shoot I could get a really nice 5' main dart shaft out of. I only threw a Atlatl once and I wasn't at all impressive but I am interested. I'm wondering about spine and weight, any basic rule of thumb measurement's to fit a person, Atlatl and dart. I thought the fellow that let me throw his said darts flex up and down, instead of side to side like arrows. By the way nice Atlatl Clewis sorry to get off track.
Bjrogg

selfbow joe:
Very cool!

clewis:
Bjrogg, I use red oiser and some type of willow, both work really good but Red oiser harder to find in my area. I have one red oiser dart about same dimensions you mentioned and its about 5"7 and its 1/2" at the distal end and about 1/4" at the proximal end, its got that classic ocelating motion when thrown. As for spine check out basketmaker atlatl youtube or elfshot blogspot Tim Rast. Other than that I have no idea lol. I asked a local retired archeologist who studied wear patterns on projectile points about spine his response was "A herd of caribou is hard to miss" lol

bjrogg:
Thanks Clewis I appreciate the info. No herds of caribou here.lol. Not sure I'll ever try to hunt with one or even if it's legal here but I'd like to make one that I could learn how to throw accurately. Besides a Atlatl and some pretty darts would look real cool on my man cave wall. Stone point fore shafts of course.
Bjrogg

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