"Perfect" damascus steel broadhead for boo/cane arrows?

[markinengland]

I'm looking to get some damascus steel arrowheads made up for bamboo and cane arrows. I reckon these would be really lovely and work well and be a bit special. These would be tanged to fit the boo. Ideally, for it to sell it would meet the requirments of many bow hunters who like to use bamboo or cane.

What would you look for?

At the moment I'm thinking of a straight angled non barbed head, something like one and one quarter inch wide and maybe 2 inches long as I think this should meet most hunting law requirments. It might be heavier than the average commercial arrowhead, a little more like a war arrowhead.

[bowtarist]

"What would you look for?", a local blacksmith or maybe look for a fairier, they often do smithing also.  There is a large knife company in the Smokey Mnts., Tennessee that sells damascus blanks if you're wanting to make your own by cutting out and finishing.  Sounds like a neat idea, kinda surprised I haven't seen that already.    Making your own damascus is a fairly technical deal, but doesn't require a lot of tools.  That being said, I am a welder/instructor and have a shop set-up more towards metal work than wood working. I've never made damascus, but it's on my list.

[mullet]

 I'll post some tomorrow, Marc, that I friend made for me.

[seabass]

i can't wait to see them too Eddie.i have offen had the same idea.

[markinengland]

I've ordered some stock Damscus steel arrowheads from a dmascus steel specialist. These are more replica war arrow heads than for hunting though. I've got some ideas of my own based on old English hunting heads. I want to weigh the arrowheads when I get them and then do a drawing of what I think a hunting head should look like.

[don't cry wolf]

i dont do damascus, but i make steel arrowheads look like they been flint knapped. check out some of the knives i done and tell me what ya think

[stickbender]

     Mark; If they are heavy, just drill some small holes in the blades at the base.  You could also angle the holes, like a cheese grater, and that would cause more wound bleeding.

                                                 Wayne

[stickbender]

     PS;
     I forgot to mention that on the holes, if you angle the holes, like on a cheese grater, then do one side, and then turn the blade over, and do the other side, and you could even take a punch, and raise it up a little.
I don't know if it will whistle or not. 

                                                Wayne

[mullet]

 Here's three. We were experimenting with different styles. The holes were needed to keep the weight down.

[markinengland]

Interesting. Wish I could see them for real. Look really nice.

What do you feel a sensible maximum weight for a hunting head is?

[mullet]

 Mark, I like to hunt with 125grn points but a lot of people like 140- 160. That is where these points are running.I don't think more than 160grns would interest people, but, I may be wrong. I'll take some better pictures with a tape measure beside them and give you the weights of each point.

[jturkey]

love those point if i ever get anything that looks that good i let you know.

[crooketarrow]

  I build a couple knives each winter and have for quite a few years and have made trade points out of the scrape peices of blanks. ( damscus) I make my trade points 1 1/8 x 2 3/4's. But mainly out of old saw mill blades 1095 steel. You can harden then temper these as well as demscus in the kicten over. And there alsome when sharpen and they stay sharp much harder (58 to 60 ROCKWELL) than the store bought heads (54 to 56 ROCKWELL). Yours will be harder to sharpen but the difference is night and day they stay sharp forever. And your right they look exstreamly good on shoot arrows. All you need is the steel (blank) and a hachsaw, bench grinder and makeing a match set isn't a problem.

[markinengland]

Well, I got some samples. I thought I'd share them here.

They're not quite what I'm looking for but they are pretty! (and fairly practical as well I reckon).
Mark in England

[Lee Slikkers]

Wow, I am a MAJOR sucker for anything Damascus (used to collect old english double guns with damascus tubes)...anyway, why aren't you happy with any of the heads?  I think there are at least 2 that look promising to me for use on a cane for deer hunting.  Thanks for sharing the "eye candy"