#arrowright

Brilliant.

The set of arrows I made to accompany Clementine.

Bamboo shafts, hand straightened, cut to 31”- 32.5” actually, for nocks and hafting-, spray painted white- spray paint is an incredibly inefficient and wasteful way to paint arrow shafts, never again-, self nocked, 22ga steel heads cut to heart shapes, hand cut 3.5” fetching from imitation eagle feathers, all hafted and bound up with red artificial sinew (heavily waxed nylon).

2 of these actually should not be shot and will be marked as such.  The thing is we need to fill a quiver for film, so they’re being sent along to look good.  I intended to send more, but the straightening process brokers more than half of the bamboo garden stakes I’d purchased for this project.  The other seven shoot just fine.

I don’t have a spine tester, but most of these are LIGHT, that’s ok as they’re being shot from a 30# bow :-)

I only made one new arrow today, less than I'd intended.  The first few pictures here are of some of the details and steps in construction.

8 bamboo and steel arrows so far.  In the picture directly above my caption here- assuming Tumblr displays everything properly and consistently- they are arranged left to right in the order I made them.  In the picture that highlights the fletchings, the order is from bottom to top, oldest to most recent- fletchnig is easily the hardest part, but I think I've gotten better at it.