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My first primitive hunting arrows.
Woodland Roamer:
Super nice arrows Ryan, great job hafting those points. Hope you get a deer with both of them.
Alan
cowboy:
Now I'm going to have to learn how to make pine pitch glue and varnish - where might a feller come across that information ;D?
Ryano:
Thanks everyone. They were actually pretty easy to make just sort of time consuming. Straightening the Cain shafts was the hardest part.
Paul, Patb told me how to do it. Its really quite simple. The glue is 1/3 pine pitch (the white gooey stuff on pine tree's)1/3 bee's wax, and 1/3 finely ground charcoal. Get your self a hot fire going and melt your pine goo in a coffee can. Try to get all the impurity's out of the pine goo like bark and bugs and stuff. Then mix the in the wax and the charcoal. Then take a stick and ball up the goo on the end of the stick while its cooling. This will give you a glue ball. Then just use the glue ball like you would hot melt for regular metal field points. once the stuff cools and it hardens its amazingly strong.
The varnish is just pine pitch dissolved in denatured alcohol. Pat said its better to use the crusty powdery white pitch for the varnish than fresh oozy stuff so the varnish with dry and not be as sticky.
Pat B:
What he said! ;D
The Burnt Hill Archer:
have you thought of using the pine varnish on bows? looks pretty good on them arras!
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