Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: PK on January 09, 2008, 01:26:59 am
-
Just finished these Bone head bamboo Arrows.
Wanted to make the noks all of horn but decided to have variety.
one is just Bamboo with a Bamboo insert in the notch, another is a plastic nok and the final is black horn with a 2" Bamboo support. All 3 Arrows are fletched with Turkey feathers.The Points are Cow bone from the Market, wrapped with Artificial Sinew.
Finished the Arrows with Amber Shelac.
[attachment deleted by admin]
-
Cool looking arrows PK.Nice job.
Pappy
-
Cool looking arrows PK.Nice job.
Pappy
Thanks, I did not realize that bone could get so sharp.
-
Like the arra's, look good! Like them bone points too but couldn't use em here, they all have barbs. cool lookin none the less :).
-
Good looking arrows. That middle one looks like it would be right at home stuck through a Papuan tribesman. :o
-
You did those arrows real proud PK. I believe bone points were used more than everybody thinks by primitive man.
-
I had to read twice, I thought you made me some new points. Then I realized it doesn't say Bone Head's Points. LOL
Great looking points PK, I think you should go stick them into something. Justin
-
Nice point and nice arrows. Do they shoot well with such short feathers.
-
I had to read twice, I thought you made me some new points. Then I realized it doesn't say Bone Head's Points. LOL
Great looking points PK, I think you should go stick them into something. Justin
Man, they are hard to pull out I got to drill backwards, But they did not break, I shot one int a 1/4 Ply just to test and wala went through the back about an inch.
Bone is harder than I thought also.
-
Like the arra's, look good! Like them bone points too but couldn't use em here, they all have barbs. cool lookin none the less :).
I just made them To Hang on my wall actually, But I just had to try them on my cardboard and 1/4 ply.
-
Good looking arrows. That middle one looks like it would be right at home stuck through a Papuan tribesman. :o
Look at the third one It looks like the side view of What was that guys name, the one from Planet of the apes, oh yea Roddy Mc donnel,Dowel, Gourd head, not sure of the spelling. Now I know what Barbs are.
-
PK, those are great looking arrows, yours pics. may have answered one of my prevoius Q's----your cane looks a lot different from what I was using.
-
PK, those are great looking arrows, yours pics. may have answered one of my prevoius Q's----your cane looks a lot different from what I was using.
I bought the boo at the hardware store and sanded the nodes down then heated the joints to streangthen them then scaped and sanded untill they felt like they would flex a bit. the work pretty good with my 50# silk back with no cutout. cant hunt with them though they are just for my wall untill I put unbarbed heads on them.
never worked with bone before so there ya go.
-
Sure shredded my target with these thins,Think I'll Make narrower un-barbed heads and post them then, put them on display were I got 2 bows for sale
Sure has been raining a lot,Like my Hobby Bows and Arrows and Art, making money is the hard part.
-
PK be careful sanding the nodes down, you can seriously weaken the shaft if ya go to far. :o
-
PK be careful sanding the nodes down, you can seriously weaken the shaft if ya go to far. :o
Good Idea, Thanks, I did that on a boo bow I attemted to break.
-
What I do with the nodes is heat them and compress them by rolling them on a hard, smooth surface under a hardwood block. You can make them about the thickness of the internode area and not loose any strength. The nodes are a cane arrows weak link so I try not to remove any critical material from them. Pat
-
Cool arrows :)
-
What I do with the nodes is heat them and compress them by rolling them on a hard, smooth surface under a hardwood block. You can make them about the thickness of the internode area and not loose any strength. The nodes are a cane arrows weak link so I try not to remove any critical material from them. Pat
Thanks pat I will remember that, I buy my shoots from the hardware store so I don't know where they come from, all I know is they sure pack a wollop.