Making your own arrows and recurve bow is cool stuff,i have read a little about it and seen a friend make arrows.Having a hybred wolf is something i always wanted,From what i know they are very loyal,at least the one another friend had was.Everytime i went to his house that wofl dog would come up to me and stay by me and play with me and wanted to go home with me.My buddy at the time didn't take care of him like he should have,i told him to give him to me but he wouldn't,couple of weeks later he moved out of state.I knew he wouldn't take care of him..
Hey Ten Wolves,can you make your arrows do that robin hood sound?THHHHHHHHHWIIIZZZZZIIIIIP ! ->----------->What did you make your bow from?Got any pics of it..I ain't much good at makin stuff from scratch.
Howdy All
Gun Slick Rick, I finally got around to taking a few pictures of my old bow, and what's left of some of the arrows I made back in 62, you asked what the bow was made of, I used Lemon wood, and a thin slice of teak in the handle/grip area, then the limbs were covered in fiber glass, I had my most problems in notching the tips of the limbs, where the strings attached, they have to be just right or they won't stay on, I finally got it right after hours of work on carving them just right. When I made arrows, I would go to Shawnee Archery Shop, and pick out my shafts that were matched and spined for the weight in pull the bow I was making them for, this is important, you don't want too light a shaft or it will break on impact, and you don't want too heavy a shaft because it will bee too slow, and this is all based on the type bow/power/weight of the bow, this is how the term matched and spined came into effect, after I picked out all the straightest arrows I needed, I would cut them to my length of pull, then I would remove the wood for putting on the knock, with a pencil type sharpener, I then would fill a tube up with my color, which was white lacquer, I would dip the shafts in the tube of paint and then hang them with a cloths pin on a line after taking them out of the tube, and let dry, when dry I would set up my fletching tool for the shape I wanted the feathers, after the feathers were glued on using a jig, I would burn the feathers in the fletch to the shape I wanted, then it was down too just fine tuning them the rest of the way by beveling the ends so the feather wouldn't get torn off when released , the knocks were put on before fletching, and were used to turn the shaft, the last thing was the tip or the business end of the arrow, on these arrows I used target tips, which I also used for small game too. That quiver is from 1956, and the leather is still holding up except for the thin straps on the knife, which is an old boning knife my Dad gave me back then for dressing my game.
Back then we all had our colors, my shafts were always " white shaft, blue knock, gray feathers ", based on colors, if we found an arrow we usually knew who it belonged too.
So I hope I was able to answer you questions , I had a lot of fun with Archery when I was a Kid.
Regards
tEN wOLVES