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Offline WillS

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Special set of warbow arrows
« on: January 30, 2017, 10:10:55 am »
These were made for a customer who had just gotten married, and requested a set of arrows for himself, and a matching set for his new father-in-law so they could shoot together.

The arrow shafts are all ash, 3/8" parallel and fitted with 2" long, 1.5mm slips of ox horn.

One set is fletched with white turkey and has a red spliced fletching laid in, and these are whipped to the shaft with red silk.  Half of them have hand forged Type 10 bodkins, and the other half have hand forged Type 16 barbed heads.

The second set, for the father-in-law, are fletched in white with a black splice laid in, and these are whipped with green silk.  They have hand forged Type 10 bodkins.

All the heads were hand forged by myself.  The customer also asked for a linen arrow bag to made for the arrows.



















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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2017, 10:17:20 am »
Very nice work
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Offline BowEd

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2017, 10:18:51 am »
Excellent work.How heavy is one of those arrows?
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2017, 10:18:57 am »
Yup, very nice
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Offline WillS

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2017, 10:22:39 am »
Quote from: Beadman on January 30, 2017, 10:18:51 am
Excellent work.How heavy is one of those arrows?

About 60g, give or take!  They're 30" long.
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Offline bjrogg

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2017, 11:06:29 am »
All I can say is WOW 👍👍
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Offline DC

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2017, 12:40:19 pm »
I'm with Bjrogg. Outstanding
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Offline ksnow

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2017, 01:27:53 pm »
Amazing work, almost too pretty to shoot.
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Offline ---GUTSHOT--->

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2017, 01:42:21 pm »
Very nice work!!
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Offline selfbow joe

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2017, 02:19:14 pm »
Very nice looking arrows
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Offline Hans H

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2017, 04:11:37 pm »
wow, they Looks really nice!!!
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Offline loon

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2017, 06:05:25 pm »
Wow, those guys must be pulling some heavy bows... Very nice work!
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Offline WillS

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2017, 06:15:54 pm »
These arrows will shoot nicely out of very light warbows - 80 to 100lb or so.  The 3/8" parallel ash shafts are sort of the "go to" arrows for entry level military bows.

Thanks for the comments people!
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Offline Trapper Rob

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2017, 10:01:27 pm »
Those are really nice. Do you forge your own points?
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Offline bjrogg

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Re: Special set of warbow arrows
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2017, 10:43:17 pm »
Rob I think he said he forged all the points himself as if the arrows weren't impressive enough. Once again Wow👍👍👍
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