This dogwood sure is cool

[H Rhodes]

 Wow, you got that one straight as an arrow......     I haven't worked with dogwood, but intend to try some.  What kind of process did you use to heat straighten them?

[iowabow]

Stay tuned I will post a picture while I work the next one up.

[Tom Leemans]

Oh Man! I've been cutting that stuff and dressing up ground blinds with it for years! Guess I should have bundled it at the end of the season.

[iowabow]

It is a deap purple now that it has been dyed with blackberries. I tried to fix the color with stag horn leaf juice so time will tell if that worked or not.

[Muler44]

That's a nice shade of purple there!  I hope it stays.

[TRACY]

It turned out nice with the berry stain. What color of fletching are you gonna use?

Tracy

[iowabow]

Just going to turkey feather it. I have some deer skin glue to glue on feathers and will sinew wrap. I found that the hide glue will reglue when humidity changes so the wrap holds them in place till glue resets. I have some that are two years old. This is how I did it on the arrow that took my first deer.

[iowabow]

I paint the pith with water to expand it first then add glue and hold in place with thread till cooled and dry. Then I will wrap the back.

[iowabow]

Well this post on fletching was real time. The hide glue takes time to dry so the process is slow. I will make more after I shoot this one to make sure it is going to work out.  I have a 125 grain field tip so the over all wt is ~665g. I scratched the stain for the white cresting. I set the crest up so that it help me determine penetration

[iowabow]

When I set a stone point in it I will have a 100% primitive arrow! I am sure others do this differently but this method worked for my last set. May be more than you wanted Tracy but there it is.

[iowabow]

I forgot to add that I paint hide glue over the sinew wrap.

[Stringman]

I wonder if anyone has tried poke berries for stain?!? Been tossin that around lately.

[killir duck]

anybody try buffalo berries? nice looking arrows

[Pat B]

John, if you dissolve pine pitch in alcohol and strain out the solids it makes a very good sealer for sinew wraps. I use it on all my primitive arrows. If you store it in n air tight container it will last quite a while.

[iowabow]

John, if you dissolve pine pitch in alcohol and strain out the solids it makes a very good sealer for sinew wraps. I use it on all my primitive arrows. If you store it in n air tight container it will last quite a while.

Pat that is great Input ! thank you I will do it.  Which type of alcohol?