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Offline makenzie71

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Lead/Tin heads?
« on: December 30, 2009, 02:26:44 pm »
Anyone ever use them?  Have to be a smaller head, I know.  I just found a bunch of babbitt I had a for a while and am trying to think of a use for it.
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Offline ZanderPommo

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Re: Lead/Tin heads?
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2009, 02:47:33 pm »
tin could be used in a survival situation, but other than that I wouldn't even think of aiming an arrow at a living animal with a head made of such inferior metal.
not even a yote or a racoon
......maybe a rat??
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Robert E. Leet

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Re: Lead/Tin heads?
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2009, 05:44:47 pm »
Has anyone here ever tried making ceramic arrow head blanks and then grinding and sanding them down to sharpen them, then glaze and fire them?  Think it would be hard enough?
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Offline Swamp Bow

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Re: Lead/Tin heads?
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2009, 07:19:40 pm »
Quote from: Killcode on December 30, 2009, 05:44:47 pm
Has anyone here ever tried making ceramic arrow head blanks and then grinding and sanding them down to sharpen them, then glaze and fire them?  Think it would be hard enough?

Just use stone, or if you really want ceramic, use "johnstone".  Don't know if anyone has used fired ceramic arrowheads though.

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Offline ZanderPommo

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Re: Lead/Tin heads?
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2010, 12:53:57 am »
also cannot sharpen them easily, and may be very very brittle. more so than a knapped head i would think.
dunno though
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