Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: hillbilly61 on August 07, 2011, 06:29:47 pm
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Made these for Ken75. Thought y'all might like to see them. They are fletched with secondary wild turkey. The cock feather is dyed with orange kool-aid. 30" long. Spined 45-50 (I think 3/4 are 47#) and weigh 474-476gn Tipped with duplex points. Hope to find a way this week to ship them w/o messing upthe fletches.
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Great lookin' set of arrows hb61. These are the same ones you've posted in the past, but finished? Ken's a lucky guy.
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Wow, Very Nice......hell them are just ideal.
rich
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Thank you bowtarist...No these are a whole differant set. I think you might be talking about some I made from birch shafts that halfeye gave me.
Thanks Rich. Ken should get some good shooting out of them.
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Dang, those are absolutely sweet canes...wow. Very jealous Ken!!!
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That's a fine bunch of arrows buddy!
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very nice work Mark.you do great work my friend.he should be really happy with those.i know i would be.thanks for the look,steve
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Hey Hillbilly, any way you can show a bit more detail or info on how to make those type of points? They look like a dandy target head. Thanks!
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another lovely set of arrows.
the ones you made for me are some of my favorite and best shooting arrows.
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Good looking arrows.
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very nice hillbilly, looks like some tough arrows.
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Those look great! Cardboard tubes seem to work pretty well for shipping arras.
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Mark those are beautiful , thank you and i know the amount of work that goes into them . lookin forward to shooting those.
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Thank you very much everyone The comments are greatly appreciated.
Lee......The points are duplex nails I don't know how others do them, but this is what I do. I hold and roll the nail in my fingers while grinding the end head off (dipping in water often to keep it cooled down) Keep doing this till the end cap is ground to a point. I don't cut the end off and then grind because I want to keep as much of the weight as I can When I get them ground, they tend to weigh about 146gn each.(16 penny nail) You can adjust the weight by grinding or cutting a bit off. Hope this helps.
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Sweet arrows, and great tip " ;) "on the tips,gonna give that a shot
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Thanks Hillbilly...makes perfect sense and it sounds like a great point. Have some 'mater stakes my boys picked up and this head would work great for them too.
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Very nice set of arrows.Nice work. :)
Pappy
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nice looking arrows as allways. wish i could get those extra shafts you sent me straight lol. i work on them alittle every day.
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Thank you Pappy :D
Keep working on it Andy, It will come to you
In all reality y'all. I feel like a freshman in high school compared to some of these artists that do them here :-\
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well i recieved my arrows today , many thanks Mark . unbeliveable craftmanship . beautiful and they fly true
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Thanks Ken. I'm so glad you like them. Hope they fly good and straight for ya.
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Thank you very much everyone The comments are greatly appreciated.
Lee......The points are duplex nails I don't know how others do them, but this is what I do. I hold and roll the nail in my fingers while grinding the end head off (dipping in water often to keep it cooled down) Keep doing this till the end cap is ground to a point. I don't cut the end off and then grind because I want to keep as much of the weight as I can When I get them ground, they tend to weigh about 146gn each.(16 penny nail) You can adjust the weight by grinding or cutting a bit off. Hope this helps.
How do you size the cane's hollow and how do you hold the points in?
I heat & hammer the head & cut the pointy end (not the head end) to size them. I've been gluing them in with "fletchtite".
I was wondering if I should upset the nail slightly with a chisel to rough them up some and split the cane & wrap with artificial sinew?
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/5949197091_3e977cfa5d_z.jpg)
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Keb...I use a duplex nail (2 headed) and cut the one off. Put the point on a grinder and round off top point. If the nai is to fat, then I carefully drill it to the size of the nail. If the hole is a little big, put extra epoxy in the shaft To glue them in I use epoxy. I use a flat toothpick to stirr and then let a couple drops fall into the hole. Then I roll the nail in the epoxy to get a little on the nail. Start the nail in. Rotate and pull/push in an dout till it seat. wipe off excess. turn upside down and set on some foil. Let set till the next day and wa-la
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Mine fly true... BUT mine are prettier than Ken's 8)