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Sourwood and hill cane arrows for arrow trade
Pat B:
Ed, I have used field points first to test shoot and cane arrows but I didn't on these. I do taper the end like for glue on points and cut the slot into that to fit the point to.
gutpile:
nice arrows Pat.. I always foreshaft my cane.. I put a point on foreshaft to spin it to line everything up before I haft my point.. those look great.. gut
Pat B:
Got the fletching added. I use fletch tape to hold the feathers to the shaft and add a sinew wrap fore and aft. On the feathers I leave about 1/4" stripped feather at each end of each feather and after using fletch tape to hold the feather to the shaft I wrap over these bare tabs with sinew and also a sinew wrap just below the nock. Next I will seal these wraps with pitch varnish.
Gut, I've made a few fore shafted arrows but for me it is just one (or more) step that I don't think is necessary. I do appreciate the historical value and the talent it takes to mate an arrow and fore shaft so don't take me the wrong way. I've seen your arrows and they are worthy candidates.
gutpile:
thanks Pat.. have you ever built a backwards cane arrow?.. where the tapered end is point end... I watched a video by Thad Beckam on just that.. they seemed to fly good too... no foreshaft either.. gut
Pat B:
I've seen it but haven't tried it. If Thad did it it must work although it seems backwards to me with the heavier end at the rear.
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