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Made a few bamboo arrows

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dklynx
Hi!
Just finished my first bamboo arrows about a week ago.
They are not entirely strait, but they don't seem to care - flying quite strait as far as I can tell.
Her they are:

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The bindings are sinew glued with a mix of hide glue and fish glue (fish skin - not the good stuff) and the fletchings are turkey for kock feather and some other stuff I had left.
There is a small rune near the nock - it's a "J" as in Johan, my firstname (I'm from Denmark, so writing korean would feel kind of out of place, though it's pretty too).
The black rings are indicators of the point of balance in each arrow - I wanted to start to learn a bit about the importance of this factor, so this is a starting point.
Finally they got a few layers of shellac.
Orda Khan
I like the rune, it's a nice touch.
cristian_iepure
It seems to me that the last node is not correctly positioned as can be seen in the first picture. You have to pick the bamboo sticks that have at least 15-20 cm of the final internode for better positioning of the feathers and nock.
dklynx
Thank you both - I got inspired by Korean arrows, but admit that I didn't aim to make replicas.
Still - good to get some Constructive criticism.

cristian_iepure: Not quite sure if you mean the nock end node?
I'm quite new to making bamboo arrows, so please elaborate - what is the correct placement of the nodes? :oops: (aside from being as close to equal with the other arrows).
Orda Khan
Take a look at arrows one and three, in front of the fletchings, you can see the 'fletch node'. It is simply the first 'joint' of the bamboo from the nock end.
On arrow two you can see a node mid fletching. I'm guessing these shafts are supplied cut to length and with a variety of node placement. Ideal node placement is covered at length here :
http://atarn.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1808
dklynx

Orda Khan wrote:

Take a look at arrows one and three, in front of the fletchings, you can see the 'fletch node'. It is simply the first 'joint' of the bamboo from the nock end.
On arrow two you can see a node mid fletching. I'm guessing these shafts are supplied cut to length and with a variety of node placement. Ideal node placement is covered at length here :
http://atarn.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1808

Ok - Thank you.
I will take a good look at this thread - looks like a lot of interesting reading 8)