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bamboo arrows

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ginni
Just finished a new set of bamboo arrows, is bamboo bought from a garden market, I chossed the less bad ones and made these.

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dog wood inserts wrapped with cow sinew and hide glue
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finished nocks
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i used reflective tape but never was need to search them in the night
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the best one
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The lighter one is 43,5 grams and the heavier is 55 grams heavy.
11 are between 43,5 to 47,6 grams, only one is 55 grams heavy and very stiff.
I used 100 grains field type points.

Red and blue are goose primary and secondary feathers, yellow are thin tertiary turkey feathers, all skined and glued with hideglue.
Jakub
Wow :shock: Fantastic arrows. How spine this set, all had the same sipne or various? The only drawback is a little heavy, but if you shot with strong bow this isn't problem. :)
ginni
Thanks Jakub!

I did not tested the spine, but the heavy one is very very stif and have the tendency to go to right. Maybe I will spine them those days.
But all arrows fell hard to control, in comparison with wooden arrows are fast and ... wild.
I can get a nice straight trajectory without touching the grip only if i let the bow to rotate in horizontaly plane when shooting, like in kyudo, a very loose grip.
Mass is no problem since my bow is 65 @28? and the arrows are 85,5 cm from notch to base of the tip.
With the 55 grams one I shot 270 meters.
jonR
You have some nice looking arrows there. My hat is off to you.
Jonwr.
jack farrell
Eugin; Good work especially the nocks. -j-
Daniel
Very impressive!
Jos?Dom
I agree with Jack, very nice nocks. Are they handmade or you purchased them?
ginni
The nocks are made from dogwood harvested from woods, inserted into a conic hole like koreans do.
ginni
I recovered a broken korean bamboo arrow from WTAF and I removed the nock in order to see the particular shape and the hardness of that ?bush clover?.. at some point, my knife was unable to cut the bamboo from the nock. After I remove all bamboo rests I found this:

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A small piece of steell less than 1mm in inserted in the nock to reinforce it.
I never seen a master arrow maker doing that in any image or movie.

My nocks have some cracks, now I know what to do to avoid this...
JJ
Very nice arrows indeed, Ginni! That Tonkin stuff seems to be really heavy compared to the Korean arrow bamboo.

That little nail inside the Korean nock piece is astonishing. It is riveted (hammered from the sides) to hold the wood together?

best regards, JJ
Thomas Duvernay
That is not common on Korean bamboo arrows (I have never seen it done before, in any case). I have a feeling someone tried to "improve" their arrows.