How To Make Bamboo Arrows with Antler Nocks
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2023
- Detailed arrow building tutorial. Plus, how to make antler nocks for bamboo arrow shafts.
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Dan makes it look so easy…..and given the actual price of arrows this is a needed skill!!!
Hahaha, I thought Wimbledon had your attention!! Ya beat me!!
Dan, it's ADDeviant_again.
Great work as always! If I may add......
I always "foot" the front end of bamboo arrows with a little length of dowel to reinforce them.
I also mark the shafts that need to be reduced at the tip ends with pecil or market and scrape that off with a sharp scarper or knife blade to keep the reduction even and the shaft round.
Great work on the antler knocks.
Great tips, thanks!
I would love to see a video on working with ironwood specifically. In the video about your favorite woods, you had a brief clip of an ironwood bow which was the most beautiful bow I've ever seen.
I do have a video tillering an ironwood bow. Also check out the handle wrap tutorial for more of that bow.
I work ironwood pretty much identically to hickory or like any other top tier whitewood. The only thing that’s really different is the texture on the back
@@DanSantanaBowsI'll have to check those videos out. Your description in the wood video of the challenge of working with ironwood made it sound interesting and unique.
Hey Dan, I was really inspired by your videos and decided to start my own channel!
Beautiful arrows, and nice shootin’!
Question… where do you get your antlers?
@@EricaSwallowDeer probably
@@EricaSwallow These are white tail deer sheds. the males drop the antlers yearly. Shed hunting is a common hobby out here during the right season. I also get antlers on ebay and most of these are sheds too
I made two sets of 12 myself, got the shafts from homebargains had to size and weigh them into sets .. a lot of wastage but so cheap anyway, getting them strait was fun 🙄. Came out a lot better than I expected. I did forget to burn a hole through all the sections to balance out the internal pressures but that's not proved detrimental as some have taken heavy impacts and not shattered 🙂. They fly strait and look awesome 👍
I've not tried to make my own arrows yet but thanks for the inspiration. I am working on my fourth self / board bow and it is coming along nicely. First one worked but was under weight from what I wanted... second broke in tillering when I got a bit hasty... third worked and I shot a few hundred shots through it before a flaw I had noticed in the grain.. where it twisted eventually gave way. This one seems to have nice straight grain all the way and I am hoping it will be the best of my efforts so far.
If you ain’t breakin ya ain’t makin!
I might suggest starting with a kit of bare carbons first. Then work up to wood and bamboo. You will want to have a spine tester to help with selection.
@MrRourk I’m not comfortable recommending shooting carbons of of bare knuckles to a mass audience. That’s a fine personal risk but I don’t wanna be responsible for a kid following that advice and messing their hand up.
There’s no need for a spine tester in primitive archery. It’s really not hard to learn to tell if you have a mismatched arrow without formally testing the spine. Watch ryan gil make perfect groups with completely mis spined arrows
That's amazing!
Thanks!
Bro you are awesome
Wonderful stuff Dan! I still have some antler and some horn aswell as some shafts... I'll give it a whirl as soon as university quietens down, thanks for the inspiration!
Yo im early. I have plenty of bamboo around my house so im going to make some of these.
Yes sir . Bamboo is better than wood as an arrows .
Your video alone is a work of art! Just like your handicrafts! I would like to do that too!
🎉❤❤i like it.. thank you Bro
Awesome stuff Dan! I was wondering if you could make a lengthy video I've making native American bows like Cherokee bows if you could it would be awesome!
Great suggestion!
Try grabbing the last hairs on the tip of the feather and pull apart you can get them peeled off perfectly and won’t have to scrape the pithy bit off the back side. Im going to have to try the antler knocks! I’ve always cut my knocks right into the back of my (river cane) shafts after filling the hole and then sinew wrap below the knock.. I don’t think your silk wrap would keep it from splitting out though…
fantastic video as usual. Your cousin’s music pairs great with the videos and inspires creativity
That hasn’t worked for me with these particular feathers. I always try peeling first but it consistently ruins these.
The silk is stronger than it looks too. Nothing like sinew but it still offers a decent amount of protection.
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I might need to take some queues from this process, since I got some new bamboo arrows and the self nocks are very loose. They have goat horns at the supermarket near me...
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Those are some fancy field points/piles. Where do you find those?
They’re just cheap generic ones from ebay. I buy them in bulk but the seller varies
So nice video can you show how to make the quiver all so
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Very nice arrows!
Would you kindly tell me what is the diameter of your bamboo arrows?
Thank you.
They vary a bit since I focused on equal masses of 500 grains instead. The arrow heads are 5/16”
Can you do a video making a bow with bamboo, i live in asia and i have no idea what kind of wood to use
Is the spacing between each fletching extremely important?
Mostly aesthetic at close range. For long range it matters more but if your arrows spin much the effect cancels out
Could you make a bamboo bow next? :)
Do you sell your products? I would pay top dollar to get my hands on some handmade bows
Yes but I’m cutting back on selling so I can do more teaching. I’ll still take on a few projects at a time though
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Could you make a video on how to straighten bamboo canes?
I think ryan gil has a good one on straightening canes
@@DanSantanaBows thanks 😊 ❤️
If only it didn't take so long to get the funding for the whole tool together, I'd be there by now.
dan, would you like to tell us if it is possible to cut a thread into the bamboo shafts?
... if I go there, I would like to use screw-on syringes
You don’t need a professional tool set up. You can do 80% of what you need with a set of rasps and files and a sharp knife.
I’m sure you could thread the bamboo but it wouldn’t last long. I’ve threaded a nut onto bamboo as used it as a blunt tip. Surprisingly effective
@@DanSantanaBows oh no, the one with the tool is such a chess...
I liked to hurt myself with half-neatness...
I'd rather do it right and in the meantime I'm realigning my garage ;)
This surprises me now that bamboo is quite durable...
what would be the reason why screw tips should not be able to last long?
@@torstenlorenz5477 I think you mean the farriers rasp. I believe the one I have is by Nicholson
@@DanSantanaBows no, lol, I mean, I didn't have a decent tool... It slowly but steadily accumulates ;)
but thanks for pointing this out...
what is the reason for this decision regarding bamboo, its durability in connection with screw tips?
What hatchet do you use?
gransfors carving axe
Thanks!
where do you get your silk wrap
Zwicky brand
@@DanSantanaBows thanks
also i would love to see you try traditional English longbow arrows
HI DAN SIR IT SPORT YEH FOR HUNTING PEOPLE I THINK ALL FOR DEATH AND SELF DEFENCE ALSO OR WHAY
I mostly make bows for historical interest
Beautifuly made ,and nice shooting Dan.
I'll have to show some of my Tudor War Arrows.
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