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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Radon on January 14, 2008, 01:59:50 pm

Title: new target arrows
Post by: Radon on January 14, 2008, 01:59:50 pm

Hi,
I'd like to show you my newest target arrows:

(http://www.fletchers-corner.de/cpg/albums/userpics/14433/normal_IMG_0156%7E0.JPG)

The shafts are cedar with foreshafts of (from top to bottom)
eur. walnut,
speierling (sorbus domestica) the dictionary gives me the engl. name sorb tree
and eur. cherry

(http://www.fletchers-corner.de/cpg/albums/userpics/14433/normal_IMG_0151a.JPG)

for feathers I used buzzard (roadkill)

(http://www.fletchers-corner.de/cpg/albums/userpics/14433/normal_IMG_0150a.JPG)

radon

Title: Re: new target arrows
Post by: DanaM on January 14, 2008, 02:48:48 pm

Look nice, you sure its legal to posses road kill buzzrad feathers??

Title: Re: new target arrows
Post by: Radon on January 14, 2008, 03:00:22 pm

It is in Germany if you have written proof by the authorities that you didn't break the law getting the feathers (i.g. killed the bird on purpose)

Radon

Title: Re: new target arrows
Post by: Glenn R. on January 14, 2008, 07:59:48 pm

Great looking arrows------very nice.

Title: Re: new target arrows
Post by: Pat B on January 15, 2008, 01:28:36 am

Very nice arrows. Well made footings and the buzzard feathers look great.
The sorbus would be like our American Mountainash or Rowan.     Pat

Title: Re: new target arrows
Post by: Pappy on January 15, 2008, 06:24:08 am

Very nice lookin arrows. Nice job. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: new target arrows
Post by: Savate on January 15, 2008, 07:17:34 am

Very cool!   I'm brand new and breaking a lot of practice arrows.  Can y'all advise me on where to get the materials and intructions I need to make myself some decent practice arrows?  Is there a reasonaly affordable supplier of shafts, points, etc?

....or is there a source for less expensive trad arrows ready made?

I broke the nock off one of them and couldn't get it to go back on (using everything from wood glue to rubber cement...  :(

Title: Re: new target arrows
Post by: 1/2primitive on January 15, 2008, 11:46:08 pm

Very nice arrows, Radon!

Savate, is this a self nock that broke? If it is, you can fix it by gluing it with a good wood glue, then wrapping from the bottom of the nock to the base of the feathers with thread or sinew, and soaking the wrapping with glue. I've broken several self nocks and have repaired them in this way (my arrows are very precious to me ;))
     Sean

Title: Re: new target arrows
Post by: Radon on January 16, 2008, 08:25:44 am

Quote from: Pat B on January 15, 2008, 01:28:36 am

...
The sorbus would be like our American Mountainash or Rowan....

Hi Pat,
it is not rowan but they belong to the same family.

Those are the fruits:
(http://www.schreiber-baum.at/images/obst/alternativ/speierling_400x328.jpg)

and the tree:
(http://koch.rothanderlahn.de/speierling/sorbus1.jpg)

Radon