Making some simple arrowheads.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- In which I make three arrowheads in less than ten minutes.
When I first started making arrows, I was dismayed at how difficult it was to knap flint, or to forge arrow sockets. And while those methods can produce superior results in skilled hands, any arrow that I can make is better than one that I can't.
Link to part two where I make the shafts and fletchings and assemble the arrows.
• How to fletch some sim...
I love you're videos i love how you get to the point
No point in meandering. Less editing time if I’m efficient.
Another great video that displays both your knowledge of history and craftsmanship. You made that look easy, I'm sure it isn't, but I'll be looking around for scrap metal to give it a try.
Just takes patience.
Looks awesome
Sure.
bro you have such a calm voice , read me 60 hours of roman empire history please :3
Go read it yourself, I’ve got better things to do.
Nice video! Keep up with the good work! I can always learn something.
Cheers.
Thank you for making this video I just made an antler arrow head myself and I’m happy with how it looks so far.
They’re a very convenient method, provided you’ve got antler to spare.
Being pointed already is definitely an advantage for the antler arrowheads, since you're enhancing a preexisting shape rather than cutting it into a new one. There's some spears from South Sudan that utilize the horns of the East African oryx to similar effect: the horns are already straight, so all the Shilluk and the other tribes that used them had to do was sharpen the tips and then connect them to the haft. And just as your arrowheads proved effective at penetrating armour, so too did those Sudanese spears when confronted by Ethiopians, Egyptian, or Ottoman opponents in chainmail.
I hadn’t heard that, neat.
really good, thanks
No problem.
Neat. I want to try to make and Atlatl some day and knowing how to make some quick and easy to use arrow heads is a good thing to know. I thought about making mine out of some old copper pipe I have. I got it for free, and is easy to work with since it's so soft. While not as strong as steel, or even arguably antler I feel it shouldn't be left out since it is the first metal ever used to put a sharp point on.
Copper works fine, but copper pipe has got a couple issues, if you cut it down the middle and then unroll it into a sheet, the metal might be too thin to take impacts. Whereas if you flatten it without cutting, the two layers are going to come apart when you start grinding.
What you might do is cut out a triangle and then roll it like a party hat. A lot of old copper culture arrowheads were made like that.
@@MalcolmPL Really? I did not know people made arrow heads that way. Interesting. The copper tubing is decently thick. I think it would be used for a water heater, or something that needs thicker pipe than what a sink would. I got a decent amount of it so I can just experiment and see what works with it, and of course scrap steel isn't to hard to come by. Thanks for the tip. I hope to work on it this upcoming spring or summer if things work out with time and all that.
Super cool heads man, did the bowman have preference on which they liked best?
Also, Do you know much about the trade of firearms to the Iroquois?
The steel arrowheads were preferred, they’re just generally better.
As to the gun trade, I know a great deal. Do you have a specific question?
@@MalcolmPL Oh cool! My question would be, were firearms something that was readily availabe for trade? To put it another way, Could every hunter or warrior be able to attain one? Was it a minority that coulld trade for things like muskets? Or were they ubiquitous?
In the early days when the French were the only colonial power, they held a monopoly and would only sell to allied nations and only to those individuals who converted to Catholicism. So Mohawks for example had no access, while the Hurons and the Algonquins had unlimited access, provided they were willing to convert.
Once the Dutch and the English got established, they were more motivated by financial gain and would sell to anyone with furs. They charged about four beaver skins for a trade gun.
However, the nations bordering the colonies, such as the Mohicans took advantage to create their own monopolies, and gouged prices for anyone who didn't have direct access to the colonies, and limited the supply to ensure that they always had more guns than their neighbors.
So if for example a Mohawk wanted a gun he would have to buy it through the Mohicans, who would charge him ten beaver skins or more, provided they were willing to sell at all.
This provoked a war between the Five Nations and the Mohicans, the Mohawks finding themselves outgunned by their Huron enemies. And after much bloodshed, a corridor of their territory leading to the sea was taken. After this, guns flooded into the Five Nations.
By the mid sixteen hundreds anyone who wanted a gun and was willing to apply himself, could acquire one given a bit of effort.
@@MalcolmPL Wow, that's extremely interesting. Very cool.
Do you have any flint in your area, or local native examples ?
Not in my neck of the woods. An hour drive north, sure, but where I live it’s extremely rare and what you do get is terrible quality.
I've heard of instances of I believe Carolinas/Florida area natives using washed up shark teeth, some fossilized ones. Seems like a pretty simple effective option.
Yeah, but that’s not very practical for those of us who live inland. Get some little wee pike teeth for arrows.
@@MalcolmPL I can try to find some to mail you if you'd like next time I'm out near the coast.
No thank you.
th-cam.com/video/-YrwtEjlN38/w-d-xo.html - Surprisingly effective against flesh targets
@@kito96 I mean, that's exactly what's they're for, penetrating flesh XD
Weird question how do you feel about compound bows in general. I bet They seem over engineered compared to a regular bow, but I guess the musket must have seemed just as weird and alien.
Unfortunately, this is a subject I am passionate about.
Compound bows are objectively superior to traditional bows. They are also completely pointless.
The reason to use bows in the modern world is the aesthetics and the feel. The smooth warm wood in your hand as you raise and draw the string, every muscle in your body working together against the ever growing tension, the way the handle gently flexes under your palm, then, when you can bear it no longer, release. What happens to the arrow after that point is inconsequential.
Compound bows, while superior, are ugly, cold, heavy, awkward, and far too easy to use. This is coming from someone who started out with compound bows.
If I wanted peak performance and ease of use, I’d just get a rifle.
@@MalcolmPL hey happy 2022 hope you keep making these videos
@@Notmyrealnameanymore And the same to you.
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Not going for that, but the support is appreciated.