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Primitive arrow stains
Hawkdancer:
If you use choke cherries and Everclear, you will probably get the Devil's own drunk! >:D. Should be a fairly deep red. Black Bing cherries should work, too. Might try some blaze orange paint near the fletching, not real primitive, though, or a white zonker wrap at the back end of the fletching.
Hawkdancer
WhistlingBadger:
Yeah, I've used the fletch-lac paints from 3rivers in the past. It does make the arrows a whole lot easier to find when I make a bad shot. But yeah, not at all primitive.
Hm, Everclear can make people act like cavemen, )P( so I guess that counts, right?
Pat B:
I was washing dishes and realized that the turmeric I used in our supper last night stained our porcelain dinner plates. If you want a good, vibrant yellow color, use turmeric, available in the herb and spice section of the grocery store. I also take turmeric daily as an anti-inflammatory in capsule form. Turmeric is what makes curry yellow.
backwoodsguy:
Several years ago while looking for a Native American paint design for my bow, I came upon a website (nativeway.safewebshop.com). Wilkie Collins told me that many Native Americans used "bluing" for decorating wood. I bought "Mrs. Stewart's bluing" at Walmart. It worked great on the belly of my bow and the arrows. Bluing was invented in the 1700's in case you need to stay period correct.
Pat B:
What color do you get...blue?
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