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Medieval arrow shaft production methods

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burtonridr:
JN, thanks for the info and that video is pretty cool, he can really split those really thin!

I might have a chance to cut up a douglas fir this weekend and try splitting out a bundle of shafts.

Del the cat:
Regarding the Mary Rose and England's preparation for the medieval wars with France.
There is good documentary evidence of how supplies were provided from across the land. The feudal system had a chain of command from king, via various nobles down eventually to the lord of the manor and his villagers.
In a similar way to how the taxes were collected each village would be expected to produce say 10 barrels of arrow heads or so many sheaves of arrows, strings, bows etc according to the resources of that village.
Robert Hardy's book "Longbow A social and military history" (ISBN 1 85260 412 3 ) details this citing the relevant sources. It's a thoroughly good read.
" in 1360, in the two months of May and June, roughly 10,000 bows and half a million arrows were received at the Tower of London alone."
Another passage mentions 400 gross of bowstrings  :o
Del

willie:

--- Quote from: burtonridr on November 30, 2018, 11:26:38 am ---JN, thanks for the info and that video is pretty cool, he can really split those really thin!

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it would be interesting to see how he got those slats so thin. ash is used for baskets in North America, but a green log is pounded with a mallet until the growth ring can be peeled from the log. never tried it with a conifer

jeffhalfrack:
This is good stuff ! I wonder is there anything written on the possibility of people retrieving arrows after a battle?  Seems like that would have been a business in its self thanks jeffw

Morgan:
I believe the difference in info available on Native American vs English is that there are still many native Americans today practicing an unbroken tradition of passing on knowledge and skills. The world advanced as did most of the people but a great many never strayed from their traditions and passed them on.

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