Decorated with arrows made of bamboo ...

...And very nice indeed.

Very nice arrows indeed. Making this arrows you used the self nock or wooden glued nock?

cristian_iepure wrote:

Very nice arrows indeed. Making this arrows you used the self nock or wooden glued nock?

Nocks are ground right on the stick. Grip is stronger. The other arrows do i type "bakam" nocks.

In my area it's hard to find bamboo thick enough to grind the nock for an arrow that will be shot from a bow heavier than 60#@28", so for now I use the wooden nocks inserted and glued to the shafts.

Your arrow are very beautiful, but I'll stick to the classic style (bamboo, wooden nock and barred feathers) till I'll really learn to shoot the hwarang bow I own.

cristian_iepure wrote:

In my area it's hard to find bamboo thick enough to grind the nock for an arrow that will be shot from a bow heavier than 60#@28", so for now I use the wooden nocks inserted and glued to the shafts.

Honed nocks are resistant to strong bows. These are the arrows for the bow Hwarang 70lb.

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Wooden nocks are unnecessarily complicated to manufacture. Historically it is a more accurate ...

Sorry, what are honed nocks? ...

Self nocks.

Maybe here i can show mi bamboo arrows. Cause i was invitated to the 3D ,first Puta and Korean target shooting in Slovakia i must make (again for about 2 years i dont make any arrows - only reparation old ...) some "better" looking arrows-especialy for mi Korean hornbow (like i call him - "KIM" :) ) .
Than i selected best bamboo shafts from garden shop, stratten , selected to target shooting heavier shafts (20-25 grams), longer distance shafts (12-15 grams) , sinew binded, skin glue glued nock wooden inserts (like chosean era...) , sinew was binding around nock vith birch bark , and oposite side vith Cherry bark (in target arrows) . Lihgter arrows was slightly barreled and endid vith small iron or bone points, vith brass pad.(thats was Korean/Turkish stile cross)
Target arrows was in the end about 28-32 grams, "flight" arrows was from 15 -25 grams(selected in groups) .
I was very surprise , that arrows vith his bark binding was very strong and dont crash. :lol:

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target arrows have Kormoran and hawk feathers. Lighter arrows - pheasan feathers.

Nice fletchings, Dusan.

Thanks Jos? .More work was vith flight/puta bakkam arrows fletching .

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again vith cherry bark

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but this is not bamboo , but old(50years dry very light spruce) - 18 -22 grams.

Nice arrows Dusan, please could you elaborate on how you used the cherry bark. I can see it is obviously used as a wrap but how did you stick it down? How thin do you make it? Will it last going into and being pulled back out of targets?

All this arrows in pic was about 100 x shooting and pulled from target vitout any bark damage.
Bring cherry bark and scrap from both sides vith good metal /or glass scraper.Bark was in the end about 1 mm thick. Than very carefull glued vith natural skin glue- thats all.Chery bark is very hard durable material !

The area just behind the point on the Tibetan wooden target arrows is reinfroced with an ingeniuos device consisting of a cherry? bark 'tube', the bark apparently have to be taken from a twig of a similar diameter that the arrow itself.
This bark appears to very durable.

I also saw a picture of some korean willow-leaf arrows that had a little wooden tube fixed on the tip side of the shaft.

Dusan wrote:

Bark was in the end about 1 mm thick

That's interesting. Some time ago I had a chance to take a closer look at Tartar bow&arrows in Chartorysky Museum, Krakow, Poland.
Cherry bark covering on the arrow appeared to be very thin, much like very fine paper. Also, it is very clear that the bark was spirally wrapped around the shaft.

Its no problem go to thiner cherry bark , but bark lost most of his durability.