Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: WillS on April 25, 2016, 04:40:02 pm
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This is a set of medieval war arrows I made for a customer recently.
The shafts are ash, and 3/8" parallel profile. The nocks are reinforced with 1mm thick, 2" long slices of cow horn. The peacock wing fletchings are cut 7.5" x 5/8" with a natural trailing edge, and bound to the shaft with pure red silk thread. They're armed with hand forged Type 10 heads, and each arrow is 30.5" long, weighing between 46 and 56g.
Hope you guys like them!
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1692/26040520823_c655cccb2f_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GscVZC)
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1594/26578651751_7a1eb87927_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Gy7D4G)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1628/26038422454_c3c8362f34_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/GuExbp) (https://flic.kr/p/FEVHQb)
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I love the colour on the fletchings :)
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Nice arrows. I also love the peacock fletching.
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Those are sweet! Fantastic work Will!
Tattoo Dave
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Cheers guys!
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shoot-able art Will! Excuse my ignorance but it the cow horn reinforcement typical?
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Very nice!
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shoot-able art Will! Excuse my ignorance but it the cow horn reinforcement typical?
Yes, not sure what these are going to be shot out of but considering the typical war bow of the time these are from was between 120-190lbs the horn reinforcement prevented the arrow from splitting when shot.
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shoot-able art Will! Excuse my ignorance but it the cow horn reinforcement typical?
Thanks!
The horn reinforcement is required once you're past about 80lb in draw weight. At that point, the string starts imparting so much force on the nock that it can split fairly easily. These were made for a guy who bought one of my 120lb ash bows earlier this year, so they definitely need the reinforcement for that!
You see the horn strips in very many medieval "type" arrows, as the arrows found on the 1545 warship The Mary Rose had them as well as the earlier medieval arrow recovered from the roof of Westminster Abbey, and those arrows are what everybody bases theirs on.
Normally you see people make them from big chunky slabs of 2mm or 3mm black buffalo horn, but "true" medieval horn reinforcements are actually very, very thin. Possibly thinner than my 1mm ones, actually!
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Nice work, perfect even spacing of your silk thread wrap.
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Very nice work. I love the hand forged points. Did you make them?
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Nice batch of arrows! CC
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The heads are not made by me, no. That's the final stage! My forge has been built, the bellows are ready... Just need to get some heads into production and I'll be "self sufficient"
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Those are awesome!
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Nice work.
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Very clean!!!