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woodsman1031:
Hello,

  I am about to make some tradepoints and I am curious is there a reference point where you put the side slots or holes for tying it on a shaft? I am using 5/16" dowels. Is there any particular way to wrap it ? I am thinking I would cut a slot in my shaft and then wrap the trade point in and then saturate the artificial sinew with epoxy. Is there a tutorial on this somewhere that I havent been able to find? Do I sharpen the back of the tradepoint so it will pull from the target easier? This all looks extremely dificult to do correctly. I can make a knife from a saw blade so I know I can make a decent tradepoint, but I am lost as far as connecting it to a shaft. Also what would be a good tradepoint weight?

I appreciate any help.

Tommy

Pat B:
Tommy, What I would do is cut a slot in the shaft and fit the point. Then mark where you want holes or slots, remove the point and make the holes or slots. I use pitch glue to haft trades and stone points then wrap with sinew or thread set in glue. With the pitch glue if the point becomes loose or gets out of alignment I can heat it a bit , straighten and its ready to go again once cool.  Pat

madcrow:
Here are a few that I made.  The points on the left are from an old handsaw.  The top points weigh 190 gr. and the points with the holes weigh 175gr.  I ahve seen some that did not have holes because the slot was not deep.  Others like mine, have holes because I cut a deeper hole.  It seems to make a stronger joint when glues up.  I put the holes close enough so that a little bit of it is under the shaft, less chance of the steel wearing through the sinew.

woodsman1031:
PatB,

  What kind of thread do you use other than sinew? Is it some type of specialty thread? It would be great if I could use the same type of thread to wrap the knock area.

Madcrow,

  I think I know what you are saying about hole placement. You are saying that when the trade point is in the shaft you only see part of the hole. Does that allow the trade point to move? I like the idea because the string or whatever is not streatched out across such a wide area. It appears that the string would not be worn near as much. What do you tie them on with? I noticed that you only have 1 side sharpened, does that work well with low poundage bows?


Can yall post some pictures of wrapped tradepoints please?


Thanks

Tommy

 

welch2:
I cut notches in the sides of the tang (3 -4 on each side) for the sinew to grip with a chainsaw file.Glue them in with pine pitch and charcoal ,Then sinew wrap with hide glue.



You can see the notches in the tang on this fishing point.


I bevel / sharpen both sides ,never tried just one bevel.



Ralph

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