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Offline Japbow

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New Birdpoint Foreshaft Design (Pics)
« on: November 16, 2014, 11:48:36 am »

      My latest design for birdpoint foreshafts...

      I'm really proud of these and have already bagged a
      nice, fat pheasant with a prototype.

      They're Black Locust shaped on a lathe with a threaded
      piece of hardware that I don't know the name of. I flared
      the four points out about 45 deg and put a heavy duty
      rounded tack in the tip. After breaking countless foreshafts
      at the transition from foreshaft to insert, I finally thought
      to drill a 1.5mm pilot hole and put a small nail to reinforce it.
      I haven't broken one since. They're totally solid!

      Thanksgiving's just around the corner so I'll be fitting these
      to Japanese arrow bamboo shafts, nocking and fletching so
      I can bag a few more pheasants for the big meal!

      If I remember, I post pics of the finished arrows too!

      Thanks for looking!
      Japbow.

Offline DC

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Re: New Birdpoint Foreshaft Design (Pics)
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2014, 12:43:37 pm »
T-nuts, I think. Good idea :D

Offline dueb

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Re: New Birdpoint Foreshaft Design (Pics)
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2014, 02:00:38 pm »
Yea those are tee nuts, used 'em a ton at one of my old jobs.
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth.
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Offline bow101

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Re: New Birdpoint Foreshaft Design (Pics)
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2014, 02:26:41 pm »
I like those. nice job
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Offline Knoll

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Re: New Birdpoint Foreshaft Design (Pics)
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2014, 04:06:02 pm »
Good idea!
... alone in distant woods or fields, in unpretending sproutlands or pastures tracked by rabbits, even in a bleak and, to most, cheerless day .... .  I suppose that this value, in my case, is equivalent to what others get by churchgoing & prayer.  Hank Thoreau, 1857

Offline Japbow

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Re: New Birdpoint Foreshaft Design (Pics)
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2014, 07:56:36 am »

      Thanks for the kind words!

      Tee nuts...hmm, good to know.

      Japbow

Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: New Birdpoint Foreshaft Design (Pics)
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2014, 11:51:28 pm »
Nice bird points!
"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