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Ricardovanleeuwen:
No cane used, its dogwood and rose
BowEd:
Ricardo...If you want to secure them arrow heads really good you need to make some pine pitch glue.There's a U tube in primitive skills section called Isaacs' pine pitch tutorial.
Hide glue works well for securing those feathers too.I should do a build along on making hide glue sometime.Got the pictures yet.
Ricardovanleeuwen:
Thanks for the advise, i forgot to mention that i tried hide glue too but i Will try again with fresh made because i think i messed up with the glue i made earlyer because finding the good amount of water to add is a bit hard. I did glue the points with 100% repair
gel glue wich seems to still do its job but is quite expensive. The closest forest for Pine pits isnt within walking or bike distance and i have a low budget at the moment so driving with the car ain't an option top so that have to wait. Now An Idea falls out of the sky, isnt It right that the Pine pitch glue is kind of moldet around the wrapping and point? Of so, would It also work to wrap toilet paper surrsated with wallpaper glue around It and seal with pva glue?
Buck67:
Well, this isn't "primitive" but if you are just getting started and are trying to keep it inexpensive this works pretty good. For the binding of the feathers and the points I use regular Elmers carpenters glue watered down a bit with cotton sewing thread. Paint the glue on, wrap the thread, paint again and then wipe off the excess.
You could try Hot glue to mount your points. Cut off a piece of the hot glue tube, heat it in a spoon, dip the arrowhead in it and then quickly mount it.
That will get you started and won't break your budget.
bownarra:
Hand fletching is tricky!
Get a piece of stiff leather, plastic, cardboard etc cut a 3" circle out of it.
Cutting a hole in the centre the diameter of your arrow shafts.
Then make three cuts with a sharp knife radiating out from the centre hole. The cuts should be equally spaced around the circle eg. 120 degrees apart.
With a bit of adjustment these can be used to hold your feathers in place whilst they are being glued.
If you make two you can use one for the front of the feather and one at the back. You can get good results with these 'tools'.
Hide glue is a good cheap glue that you can make yourself easily. It is very strong and actually a very good fletching glue once you get the hang of using it.
Superglue works for fletching but you would really need a fletching jig to use it.
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