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A few more arrows. Ash and Lime.

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Ruddy Darter:
  Here's a few more arrows I made, ash spined 110ish, with light target points 12mm barrelled, tapering to 8mm at the nock and 3/8" at the arrowhead, with minimal taper at the head to keep them front heavy, walnut stain and red oxide pigment stain with real gold thread, canada goose fletchings.
The  12mm barrelled lime are greylag goose bound on with silk thread, all the arrows bindings are sealed in with multiple coats of rabbit skin glue, the lime shafts are spined 120 with forged type 10 arrowheads. They have picked up some green tint from the copper pot I melt the glue in, but doesn't really show that well in the photo.
Both sets perform really well, I used my shooting board to get them all to match in spine with multiple staggered tapers and measured with a basic spine tester.
The arrows with the gold thread really catch the sunlight  :D
R.D.

Muskyman:
Those look really nice RD. I’m guessing that took a minute. Never made an arrow other then fletching them many years ago. Did you make the shafts?

Pat B:
Nice arrows, RD.  :OK

Ruddy Darter:
Thanks Pat B, Muskyman,
 I didn't make these shafts, the lime shafts were recommended by Strelets and were reasonably priced, they were 12mm and were way overspined, so I worked multiple staggered full length tapers to get the spines matching, they all end at 8mm at the nock, but some are fatter throughout the length than others as there was a lot of variation in the shafts. I'm trying to find the happy medium between spine and wood type weight, I have some alder timber(photo) that I'm going to run through a taper jig and see how that is, it's a little heavier and denser than the lime, so I think they will work out ideal. I'm hand sawing them so may take a little elbow grease, but I've made a start. The lime shafts are very good, if still a little light, thank you Strelets for the recommendation.
R.D.

WhistlingBadger:
Those are outstanding.   French knights better keep their distance.

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