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Title: Latest arrows 2
Post by: broad_head on January 20, 2010, 10:34:40 am

More photos

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Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: markinengland on January 20, 2010, 10:45:17 am

Lovely work Peter.

Which end goes in the target?

Mark in England

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: recurve shooter on January 20, 2010, 11:05:35 am

dude those are NICE! i love the big blunt. what is that a hard wood with copper on the face of it? and the little field point things are awsome to. i wish i could make arrows lol i try but i cant straighten to save my life.  ;D

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: broad_head on January 20, 2010, 11:09:24 am

Mark
        I think I will start making them double ended??

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: Justin Snyder on January 20, 2010, 11:20:09 am

Nice, tell us more about the points please.

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: Josh on January 20, 2010, 11:41:56 am

nice arrows!  those look great I love how you fletched the white ones!  -josh

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: aero86 on January 20, 2010, 12:11:21 pm

what are those copper colored points?

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: RidgeRunner on January 20, 2010, 12:47:15 pm

Very nice arrows.
You got it bad don't you... ;D

Tell us more about the "business ends" of them.

I looks like those blunt bunny bumpers would pack a punch.

Thanks
David

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: Tsalagi on January 20, 2010, 01:55:13 pm

The top picture with the steel nib insert, I'm guessing you may have got the idea from the drawing in the Luttrel Psalter of the archers shooting at the target? Their arrows appear to be made in a similar fashion. Fine craftsmanship on all of them.

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: broad_head on January 21, 2010, 04:30:20 am

Thanks for the comments.
The arrows with the wood points are from a wood called Massaranduba , a very hard tropical wood. I drill a taper hole in the wood and sand a corresponding taper on the shaft, glue them on, then finish sand them on a belt sander. The blunts are made in a similar way but I glued a tight fitting ring of copper at the front end to prevent the wood splitting, thought it would look better than the rubber heads you can buy. The other arrows have a M6 screw shank glued into a drilled hole (about 1 1/2 inches deep) then finished on the belt sander. The wood points are quite durable and have withstood hitting trees, rocks are a different matter.
                                                                                                                                                                                Peter (UK)

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: recurve shooter on January 21, 2010, 10:21:12 am

thats AWSOME!  ;D

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: Pappy on January 21, 2010, 10:39:50 am

Beautiful arrows and heads/points.Them are just plum cool. :) :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: DanaM on January 21, 2010, 08:03:12 pm

Very nice, I like em 8)

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: bobnewboy on January 22, 2010, 10:17:11 am

Nice job Pete.  Fantastic attention to detail.  Whatever happened to those hawthorne arrows you were making?  :o

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: broad_head on January 25, 2010, 04:35:06 am

Hi Bob
          I posted the finished arrows on here, do a search for Hawthorn character arrows.
                                            Peter (UK)

Title: Re: Latest arrows 2
Post by: mox1968 on February 01, 2010, 02:19:24 pm

broadhead your arrows are works of art mate!!!! show a lot of imagination