Apr 8, 2017
Hey fellow backyard bowyers! Here is a list of the materials (plus links to a couple big box stores) needed to build the hot box as well as ...
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Hey fellow backyard bowyers! Here is a list of the materials (plus links to a couple big box stores) needed to build the hot box as well as ...
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Home made judo points. Â These are amazing.
If you're into archery, you need to check out Nick "The Backyard Bowyer" Tomihama's Youtube channel. Â He is contributing so much.
Thanks so much! I've always used carbon, but a relative has a neat patch of bamboo I heard can be made into arrows, so I've been trying to find out more about wooden and bamboo homemade arrows. Basically, what should I look out for specifically when making them to make sure they fly right? Or would the vanes do most of that work? Also: any creative ideas for what to make arrows out of? Never heard of PVC bows before, but now I'm itching to try out new materials for arrows 'cause of it, haha.
There are a good many excellent tutorials out there on making bamboo arrows.  I got important info from one on instructables, one on paleoplanet, tenbrookarchery (he makes gorgeous bows and arrows) and first and most importantly in Nicholas Tomihama’s book Simple PVC Pipe Bows there is an excellent chapter on making arrows from garden stakes.
Garden stakes from the local hardware store are my go to.  I can buy a bag of 25 green, 4’ bamboo garden stakes of approximately the correct diameter for a few dollars.  I’ve found that after testing for damage (cracks, brittleness, softness) about half a bag of 25 will make for good arrows- comparatively dirt cheap shafting.  Harvesting your own bambo should be EXTRA cheap ;-)
Take an open 7-10mm or roughly 3/8” wrench with you to check the diameter of the bamboo you select.  Don’t take anything cracked or tgo far dried out.  To test a shoot for suitability, simply grip a section in two hands that’s roughly the length of your arrow, flex it to test the spine a bit- the tutorials I link to demonstrate this for you-, if it doesn’t break or make any cracking or snapping noises it is good to go.
You will have to use a heat source and straighten the arrows. Â Part of an arrow flying true is that it is good and straight, other parts being proper balance and, yes, most definitely the vanes, fletching.
There are guides to making arrows from hardware store dowel rods, but bamboo is easier and more importantly safer. Â Start out with bamboo ;-)
You can make field points out of duplex nails, blunts out of spent bullet casings and hot glue (just glue a 9mm case on the end of your arrow, viola instant rough and ready blunt), glass (I wouldn’t), flint, bone, you can cut them out of sheets of steel like I do- 16ga welding steel from Amazon.Â
You’ve got some research ahead of you, good luck.Â