What a labor of love, Ryan...THANK YOU for all the great and ENTHUSIASTIC work you put into making these videos for us! I just LOVE 'em! I have learned SO MUCH!
Hey Ryan...ive been wondering if youre going to do a hunt primitive tribal gathering again? Thanks man for another awesome video, really appreciate your hard work.
I love the splicing for a harder foreshaft, its not easily removable obviously but it does allow me to use coppiced hazel for the bulk of the shaft then a much harder firehardened point, i really like rowan or if i can get it large enough to split down, dogwood, both throughly firehardened and while its hot rub it with some pitch, the ground is wet most of the time by me so it really helps the dart last much longer with the first 15 or so inch being water resistant and hard
If you let them dry without straightening them or if they're just to dry to straighten you can soak them in water for a bit and they'll fire straighten pretty easily, in my experience.
What do you think about just putting the end of the foreshaft in your mouth to moisten it and get a nice tight fit into the end of the spear? Usually works for me.
What species of bamboo do you use? I don't have access to native river cane, but I do have non-native bamboo. The trouble is that the bamboo I have hardly flexes at all when it is dry. It makes great bow backing, but arrows or darts, not so much. It is so stiff the dart doesn't 'swim' so it loses a lot of force as the dart tries to stabilize to the fletches only. For now, I have given up on it unless you know of some way to treat it so that it can be used.
I don't have access to cane either. Where i live 5/8 ( 14mm ?) at the base would be about 3/8 at the tip over 7 foot dart. I would go bigger at reduce the butt end as Ryan mentioned. The end in the throwers got to be big enough to seat in the thrower. Like he said , use what you got and make it work. That's the fun of paleo. Good luck. I'm using 7' maple and ash saplings. Relatively straight but they tend to have dog legs near the bottom because our deep snow. I start almost one inch and plan to whittle them down. They say they don't need to be perfectly straight , just overall straight , if that makes sense.
Good idea. I sometimes when stetting lag bolts will use an undersize pilot hole bit then kind of ream the hole a bit by rotating the drill to make the hole larger toward the start. My thought is useing that or your idea of step drilling and them reaming the hole out with a modified knife with a matching profile of the darts foreshaft to finish out the hole.
Just ordered your 3 book bundle plus 1. Really appreciate your years of devotion to learning your craft and then sharing it with the rest of us!
Made a fletching jig to fletch darts with made it for about ten bucks and scrap wood. Clamp is kinda crude but it works. Can do helical or straight.
What a labor of love, Ryan...THANK YOU for all the great and ENTHUSIASTIC work you put into making these videos for us! I just LOVE 'em! I have learned SO MUCH!
Hey Ryan...ive been wondering if youre going to do a hunt primitive tribal gathering again?
Thanks man for another awesome video, really appreciate your hard work.
Great video man
Like the primitive skill topic. If I had space to keep some of this stuff I would put hands on
Great vid. Would really appreciate a video on troubleshooting river cane arrows. Just a idea.
I love the splicing for a harder foreshaft, its not easily removable obviously but it does allow me to use coppiced hazel for the bulk of the shaft then a much harder firehardened point, i really like rowan or if i can get it large enough to split down, dogwood, both throughly firehardened and while its hot rub it with some pitch, the ground is wet most of the time by me so it really helps the dart last much longer with the first 15 or so inch being water resistant and hard
...thanks Ryan!!!😀
Good stuff, I'm inspired, TY. 👍
If you let them dry without straightening them or if they're just to dry to straighten you can soak them in water for a bit and they'll fire straighten pretty easily, in my experience.
What do you think about just putting the end of the foreshaft in your mouth to moisten it and get a nice tight fit into the end of the spear? Usually works for me.
What species of bamboo do you use? I don't have access to native river cane, but I do have non-native bamboo. The trouble is that the bamboo I have hardly flexes at all when it is dry. It makes great bow backing, but arrows or darts, not so much. It is so stiff the dart doesn't 'swim' so it loses a lot of force as the dart tries to stabilize to the fletches only. For now, I have given up on it unless you know of some way to treat it so that it can be used.
Does the measurements apply to hardwood too? Here in Sweden we don't have bamboo or cane/hollow woods/grass.
I don't have access to cane either. Where i live 5/8 ( 14mm ?) at the base would be about 3/8 at the tip over 7 foot dart. I would go bigger at reduce the butt end as Ryan mentioned. The end in the throwers got to be big enough to seat in the thrower. Like he said , use what you got and make it work. That's the fun of paleo. Good luck. I'm using 7' maple and ash saplings. Relatively straight but they tend to have dog legs near the bottom because our deep snow. I start almost one inch and plan to whittle them down. They say they don't need to be perfectly straight , just overall straight , if that makes sense.
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If I was going to drill out the socket will modern drill bit I'd use a small step drill bit
Good idea. I sometimes when stetting lag bolts will use an undersize pilot hole bit then kind of ream the hole a bit by rotating the drill to make the hole larger toward the start. My thought is useing that or your idea of step drilling and them reaming the hole out with a modified knife with a matching profile of the darts foreshaft to finish out the hole.
Can you do avatar bow and arrow
How to hunt boar with spear only no dog
It's Look like a na'vi Arrow
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