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Making/hafting tradepoints

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JackCrafty:
My tradepoints weigh about 120 grains.  I make them out of large nails or steel rod.  I just flatten the steel with a hammer to about 1/16" thick, tapering it from the tip (thinner) to base (thicker), and grind to shape with a bench grinder.The tang is about 2/3 as long as the body and I cut shallow ridges into the sides of the tang so that the sinew or thread grips the trade point and prevents movement.  I taper the tip if the arrow shaft and shape the tang to match this taper exactly...except the tang is about 1/32" wider.  I cut a slot into the tip of the arrow shaft with a scroll saw and glue the trade point with hide glue or fish glue.  I then wrap the point with sinew or cotton thread (soaked in glue)...going past the base of the point by 1/2" or so.  My points are about 3/4" wide.  If you're making hunting points, they need to be 7/8" (or more) wide in most states.

This picture shows two trade points made from nails, glued with fish glue, and wrapped with sinew.
These arrows have been shot at least a hundred times each (sometimes into the ground) with no problems other than the occasional straightening of a bent tip.

Pat B:
Tommy, The thread I use is silk from 3Rivers. I use it to wrap points, nocks and feathers...and on bows. I have also used artificial sinew for all of these. When I use thread or art sinew I use super glue to set them. For sinew I chew the sinew first until soft then wrap. Your saliva and the sinew makes its own glue. When dry I seal with pitch varnish.     Pat

madcrow:
I use artificial and real sinew, upholstery thread, I have even used fly line backing.  I sharpen only one side because it acts more like a chisel and gets more rotation and penetration.  That single bevel seems to pull the arrow in when it makes contact.

Pat B:
Here are a few of my arrows with trade points. The top arrow is red osier and an Art Butner trade point. The second arrow is bambusa with an Art Butner trade point. The third arrow is an Art Butner river cane arrow with foreshaft and my trade point and the last is a salt cedar arrow with my trade point.
   Some of these are hafted with pitch glue and some with epoxy...some wraps are silk and some are sinew.

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Pappy:
I just put a slot in each side to where the metal left in the center is about as wide as the shaft
I plane to put it on. It seems to be working for me.Some of the guys were worried about them
busting out the shaft but I rapped them down the shaft below the head about an inch and so far
I have taken 4 deer with this set up with no problem.This one is around 160 grain.They were made
from band saw blade that are 50.000 thick. :)
   Pappy

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