Glad I found your channel. Made my first bow a few years ago but draw was under. Hoping to make agonother one soon, but would love to try making my own arrows. Is it possible to turn a shaft on a lathe or is that too thin a piece for a lathe? How thick are the shafts?
That's great! Good luck with your projects. No, I don't think it works to turn shafts on lathes. If you want to make your own dowel shafts I'd recommend this shaft plane. www.3riversarchery.com/arrow-shaft-plane-for-wood-arrow-building.html Otherwise you can collect your own natural shoots. If you're buying shafts I'd recommend surewoodshafts.com
Nice video? What can you do, if the nock got too big? I hit a self nock with another arrow and it took some splinters out - now, after cleaning up, it's too big and falls of the string. :-/
Hmm don't have an easy answer. Be careful shooting damaged arrows. You can get hurt. If you have enough length between the nock and fletchings you might be able to deepen the nock and trim the ears down. It depends on how it was damaged
Swiftwood Bows thought about that as well, but there’s not enough space. Thanks a lot! Yup, I‘ll be careful. Should be fine though - the other arrow only touched the nock on the side.
Swiftwood Bows today I was working on a self nock sanded a bit too much so I had the idea to rotate the nock above a little camp stove and heat it then I pinched the nock with my fingers and it actually worked really well!
Swiftwood Bows got the idea from a video a saw I don’t remember who it was may have been clay Hayes anyway the person dipped a plastic nock that was loose in hot water and pinched it more closed
Never tried it or heard of that. I don't know that it would offer enough integrity. I tend not to be to adventurous when it comes to arrow integrity because the consequences of a failure are often not much fun.
Honestly man, this is purely for your benefit: get your sound together, it is more important than the video quality you acquire. It is not overly expensive or difficult to capture decent sound. I'm interested in your videos, but it is very difficult to get through them. Speaking with love here, hope you can get it together because you will have a viable channel here. Thanks again. And post scripting, if you need help with audio tech, I'd be happy to help out.
I appreciate the feedback. The sound has been a challenge. I have purchased several different mic systems trying to get something that will give me consistently good sound. I feel like it's gotten better. Is it my voice that you're having trouble hearing? When I go back and watch the video I can hear that it's not perfect but I'm able to hear what's being said. I'd love to improve it but I don't have a lot of money to throw at it right now. If you have any thoughts on what might help feel free to email me at swiftwoodbows@gmail.com
Native Americans took advantage of technological improvements very quickly. Purists are purists by their own way, it's okay. If you choose to adopt modern methods to make primitive tools, it's ok, after all the first people did it. They showed us this ability.
But your shaft should have its grain vertically, to better "bend" around the bow. I understand your thoughts on your cross grain nock theory but the "archers paradox" needs to be free to happen as easily as possible. Especially if your dealing with none center cut bows like most historical bows are.
If you have matched the grain of the shaft to the bow, then nocking against the grain is best to avoid splitting with self nocks. Many times this has been the case as the ‘grain’ is more consistent for the archers paradise when the grain is constant against the bow. You don’t want the reflex deflex of a wooden arrow to change, or at least as little as possible. There is a reason people put horn inserts to the nocks for years to ensure its stiffness.
What's your problem? He never said, he's making an arrow with primitive tools. He is making an primitive style arrow with selfnocks and I-don't-know-yet fletching and tips...
😊thanks
Man you pay so much attention to detail and do great work. I have been waiting for an arrow making video from your channel
Thank you! Glad i finally got around to it
Great video! You are very good at explaining your techniques. Thank you and I am looking forward to seeing your next video.
Thank you, I'm glad you're finding it helpful. Hopefully I can get the next video made soon.
What wood is it made of friend? Are the arrows
What size file and what size drill bit do you use in this video for the arrow nocks
douglas fir surewood shafts are awesome
I find a 1/8 drill bit works perfect for the string catch at the base of the nock
Thanks for sharing!
Glad I found your channel. Made my first bow a few years ago but draw was under. Hoping to make agonother one soon, but would love to try making my own arrows. Is it possible to turn a shaft on a lathe or is that too thin a piece for a lathe? How thick are the shafts?
That's great! Good luck with your projects. No, I don't think it works to turn shafts on lathes. If you want to make your own dowel shafts I'd recommend this shaft plane. www.3riversarchery.com/arrow-shaft-plane-for-wood-arrow-building.html
Otherwise you can collect your own natural shoots. If you're buying shafts I'd recommend surewoodshafts.com
Nice video? What can you do, if the nock got too big? I hit a self nock with another arrow and it took some splinters out - now, after cleaning up, it's too big and falls of the string. :-/
Hmm don't have an easy answer. Be careful shooting damaged arrows. You can get hurt. If you have enough length between the nock and fletchings you might be able to deepen the nock and trim the ears down. It depends on how it was damaged
Swiftwood Bows thought about that as well, but there’s not enough space. Thanks a lot! Yup, I‘ll be careful. Should be fine though - the other arrow only touched the nock on the side.
Swiftwood Bows today I was working on a self nock sanded a bit too much so I had the idea to rotate the nock above a little camp stove and heat it then I pinched the nock with my fingers and it actually worked really well!
@@tonygray3787 cool trick. Hadn't thought of that. I'll give it a try
Swiftwood Bows got the idea from a video a saw I don’t remember who it was may have been clay Hayes anyway the person dipped a plastic nock that was loose in hot water and pinched it more closed
What if you dipped that end in epoxy so it won't split would that work ???
Never tried it or heard of that. I don't know that it would offer enough integrity. I tend not to be to adventurous when it comes to arrow integrity because the consequences of a failure are often not much fun.
Honestly man, this is purely for your benefit: get your sound together, it is more important than the video quality you acquire. It is not overly expensive or difficult to capture decent sound. I'm interested in your videos, but it is very difficult to get through them. Speaking with love here, hope you can get it together because you will have a viable channel here. Thanks again. And post scripting, if you need help with audio tech, I'd be happy to help out.
I appreciate the feedback. The sound has been a challenge. I have purchased several different mic systems trying to get something that will give me consistently good sound. I feel like it's gotten better. Is it my voice that you're having trouble hearing? When I go back and watch the video I can hear that it's not perfect but I'm able to hear what's being said. I'd love to improve it but I don't have a lot of money to throw at it right now. If you have any thoughts on what might help feel free to email me at swiftwoodbows@gmail.com
Native Americans took advantage of technological improvements very quickly. Purists are purists by their own way, it's okay. If you choose to adopt modern methods to make primitive tools, it's ok, after all the first people did it. They showed us this ability.
But your shaft should have its grain vertically, to better "bend" around the bow. I understand your thoughts on your cross grain nock theory but the "archers paradox" needs to be free to happen as easily as possible. Especially if your dealing with none center cut bows like most historical bows are.
If you have matched the grain of the shaft to the bow, then nocking against the grain is best to avoid splitting with self nocks. Many times this has been the case as the ‘grain’ is more consistent for the archers paradise when the grain is constant against the bow. You don’t want the reflex deflex of a wooden arrow to change, or at least as little as possible. There is a reason people put horn inserts to the nocks for years to ensure its stiffness.
This is just a bunch of moder crap, if u r going to title your video PRIMITIVE arrow making, than make it primitively
What's your problem? He never said, he's making an arrow with primitive tools. He is making an primitive style arrow with selfnocks and I-don't-know-yet fletching and tips...