Show me your foreshafting drill

[punch]

I am going to be adding foreshaft to my mulefat arrows.  What are you using to drill out the shafts?  A photo would be great with how deep you set your foreshafting. I have done a few but have not been happy with the drilling method.

[DC]

I guess you don't want to see a picture of my metal lathe. Drills holes right in the center

[punch]

No that is cheating.... just kidding.  But I am looking for something more like a hand tool.

[Pat B]

Why are you adding foreshafts to mulefat shafts? Isn't it pretty hard, tough wood?

[punch]

I wanted to be able to change between broad heads and target points.  Also I was thinking of using a hardwood foreshaft sharpened instead of a field points.  Mulefat is pretty strong but I also wanted to get away from relying on store bought field points.

[Pat B]

I've only made a few arrows with foreshafts but they were all cane. Never tried to drill a dowel. Primitives use a stone drill. I guess you could use a twist drill but it wouldn't be a tapered hole.
 When I made horn nocks for a yew war bow I used a 1/2" spade it that I modified to a tapered shape. I guess you could do the same with a 3/8" or 7/16" spade bit and match the taper on the fore shaft to that.

[PEARL DRUMS]

You can cut a typical point taper on them.I have never done it with mulefat. But I have with sourwood, hill cane, river cane, boo and all the common turned shafting. Works great. That means you can swap out points all you want without fore shafting.

[Thunder]

I just gave one away and this one isn't completely finished, I need to adjust the taper. I try to make mine small enough to fit on a keychain. It's cut out of a 16 gauge? steel cabinet door. It can handle the heat that gets built up while drilling. You can put it in a vice or hold it in your hand. It works for me....

Thunder

[Pat B]

Cool little tool there, Thunder but you are drilling cane in the pic. Have you tried dowels or hardwood shoot arrows with that tool?

[Thunder]

I havent tried it on dowels or hardwood shoots but it might work if it was pointed and had a knife like edge on it.

[turtle]

Here is a link to an article about how Ishi did it.
http://www.archerylibrary.com/articles/pope/yahi-archery/the-arrow1.html

[DC]

This is for bamboo arrows but you might get something out of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK5INvoNTdk

Start at 14:00 minutes for the drilling but you'll want to watch the whole thing. Turn on the closed captioning for an English narration. Love watching these pros.

[fiddler49]

Putting a solid foreshaft on a solid wood shaft is a waste of time! No real good reason to do it unless you want a lot of weight forward which is still not a good enough reason in my book as fast as I loose and break arrows.
North american natives would only do it on river can just to make the arrow stronger on the business end.
cheers fiddler49

[punch]

Fiddler the kumeyaay which used mulefat used a foreshaft on them.  That is part of the reason I was looking at it.  Mulefat is pretty strong but it still has the soft pith in the middle.

[crooketarrow]

  Whats wrong with a power dill and bit. Or are you trying to keep it primitive. Dos'nt do much good like others on here. You'll  use a belt sander and band saw but wont't use a power drill on arrows. I've know and do know people that do just that.