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Two feather fledged white ash arrow with obsidian point

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Brotherhood Bows:
Your knowledge of fletching and arrows is awesome! I have yet to really get stuck into fletching, FOC and grain. I shoot with an albeit wonky 120lbs @32",  78" yew warbow. It was my first try at making one so getting used to heavier arrows has been a good learning curve.

Seeing your magnificent 2 fletch and obsidian head made me dream of shooting beaut arrows to match the frankly frightful power of this new bow.

Keep up the amazing work!

Philipp A:
Thanks Ben for your feedback! I certainly would not want to call myself an expert, I just like studying things once I get involved in something and love tinkering. I like for the resulting work to be both functional and nice to look at. Making the arrows has proven to be as much or even more fun than making bows for myself, especially once I was able to make the arrows from trees harvested in my own bush.

The one thing I should mention is that I still plan to sinew wrap below the nock in order to prevent splitting of the arrow. I think this will be especially important when shooting a powerful bow like the one you have made. I have seen a lot of native hardwood arrows depicted in literature that are not sinew wrapped at the nock, but they were mostly made from split hickory and I was informed by Carson Brown that hickory is much less susceptible to splitting, so I definitely want to take him up on his advice to still sinew wrap them at the nock.

Quite frankly, while I realize it is as much technique as pure strength, all I can handle is about a 75# bow, so I admire you for being able to handle a 120# bow!

Have you measured the speed of your arrows shot with your war bow? What thickness arrow do you shoot with it now and how long are your arrows you are using? It looks like you have long arms at a draw length of 32", so you would need an exceptionally high spine weight for your arrows. What spine are you using?

Thanks for your interest,

Phil

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