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Offline Tsalagi

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Re: A bit more than an arrow
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2010, 02:43:55 am »
Hey, doesn't Dane have a Roman ballista that could launch that?  >:D

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Re: A bit more than an arrow
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2010, 08:19:06 am »
It'll work just fine Marc, you just need to make a slightly bigger bow. ;D Cool spear!
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Offline Tom Leemans

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Re: A bit more than an arrow
« Reply #17 on: July 07, 2010, 01:24:23 pm »
Awesome Marc!

Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: A bit more than an arrow
« Reply #18 on: July 07, 2010, 03:12:10 pm »
Thanks guys

Much of the work on this spear was done with stone tools and all natural materials were used.  The notch for the point was made using modern tools but besides that everything else was done by hand.  The shaping of the spear was done with stone and the point was tied on with Moose backstrap sinew.  It has 1 Eagle feather, I only had the one, and the other is Wild Turkey that Glenn Doane sent me a few years ago.  The 2 feathers on the end were from a Pigeon who was too stupid to stay away when I took it in my mind to thin the local flock a couple years ago.
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