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Offline ozy clint

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primitive needle
« on: November 10, 2012, 09:53:58 pm »
i'm in the process of making a quiver and got to thinking about needles.
then it hit me that i have a few stingray barbs from some that i have shot.
here's the result-

Offline chamookman

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2012, 07:03:25 am »
COOL ! What's the lenght ?
"May the Gods give Us the strength to draw the string to the cheek, the arrow to the barb and loose the flying shaft, so long as life may last." Saxon Pope - 1923.

Offline madcrow

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2012, 08:36:09 pm »
Nice. 

Offline Newindian

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2012, 10:26:47 pm »
Cool( there are so few people like us who can fired up over a needle) ;D
I like free stuff.

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2012, 03:51:43 am »
 8) very cool  8)
Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2012, 09:20:45 am »
Very cool, Like that a lot,I made some out of deer leg bone that worked good,no stingrays in Tennessee. ;) ;D ;D
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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2012, 05:14:01 pm »
I like it, nice work. The NA's in Florida used stingray barbs for arrow heads.
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Offline Scowler

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2012, 07:52:11 pm »
Real fine work.

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2012, 03:39:13 pm »
looks like a nice needle. looks great for sinew stitching.

I don't know if anyone has tried this before but...
what i'm using today to sew up a quiver is a tip of a turkey quill. snip one off about 2 1/2" ,from one that glides through your punched holes.
reem out the inside a little, enough to stuff  the end of your stitching cord into. then slice a thin piece of quill from the same feather and slide it into
the hole with the cord to snug it up.... works like a charm...wish I had thought of this years ago!
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #9 on: December 04, 2012, 02:28:59 am »
That is really cool. Did you have to do much to it to turn it into a needle?
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline Steamfab

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2013, 01:44:19 pm »
Wow ! really cool needle, love this kind of tool from animal bones. How creative and resourceful can that be?

Offline primitivepaulette

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2013, 11:58:53 am »
That is really pretty! and I'd bet works quite well.
Nice tip.. excuse the pun, RichardZane, never thought of that but it is tips like this that one might recall when you need one.. thanks for sharing that.

Offline BowSlayer

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2013, 05:25:18 pm »
seriously, what's the point :P
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45#@28"

Offline 4dog

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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #13 on: July 07, 2013, 01:47:12 pm »
Sad just sad  ;) bowslayer i see what ya did there. Lol
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Re: primitive needle
« Reply #14 on: July 07, 2013, 05:07:35 pm »
Sad just sad  ;) bowslayer i see what ya did there. Lol

 8) :D ;) 8)
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