@@dankolord It is a board with a groove in the middle and a stop at the back. Usually the grove is a right angled triangle. You place the arrow shaft in the groove against the backstop and can then use a plane to get a rather even shaft and reduce it down to the size you want it.
Great video! My technique is very similar to yours up until the final shaping. At that point I use a hand plane, and then a sizer which is essentially a hole, the correct diameter, drilled in a piece of steel that I pull the shaft through... Thanks Dan for another well done and educational video! As for the "bow gods" well... there is only one God and His name is Jesus Christ! (1 Timothy 2:5) God bless, Jesse Gjefle
I've long since lost count of the number of bows I've made but I have yet to make an arrow. This will be my inspiration. My brother hunts geese. I'lll ask him for feathers and will definitely leave them untrimmed.
The 1950's boys made their oun bows & arrows !! I'm 75 , and we did well frog hunting , dove , etc . Home made sling shots , useing the old red tire tube!! Good hunting my buddies !!!! 👍👍👍👍
I’ve watched a lot of videos and read a lot of books on making both bows and arrows. This has to be the most easily digestible and comprehensive video I’ve seen on the topic condensed down into a reasonable amount of time.
I was fortunate to see the opening of sealed barrel full of arrows. What struck me most was that even they where tightly packed few feathers was damaged or they where all waxed and in prime condition even though they where several hundreds years old.
Oh my. I dont have the skills, tools, nor raw materials to do any of this but iI love target archery and enjoyed the sport in my youth. Watching your video feels like taking a masterclass. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Regarding arrow thickness: a good rule of thumb is: shorter target range = thicker arrows. I don't know any numbers for wooden arrows though I used to do competitive archery for several years and I had different sets for 18, 50 and 80 meter competitions for this reason. Granted, they were aluminium-carbon-compound, not wooden, but I suppose this should apply regardless. A thicker arrow will bend and flex less and thus reach a stable flight more quickly, making you more accurate at shorter ranges. A thin arrow at 18m will bend enough to lose you one or more points just by the variation in tip position at impact. Not to mention that arrows impacting the target while still flexing can easily snap, something that can get expensive quickly if you're using ACC or CC arrows lol. Conversely, at longer ranges you will want the substantially lighter, thinner arrows. Because of their lower weight, you don't need to aim as high and get to shoot from a more comfortable(read: accurate) shooting position, allowing you to be more accurate. Thick arrows might not even reach the 80m targets if you're using a "normal" draw weight, i.e. one that wont ruin your shoulders within 5 years
It does apply, but only for the more center-shot bows. Mongol flight arrows were very barrelled, so both stiff and light. For a bow that needs a spined shaft to go around the handle in a tuned way, that will be a very limiting factor, so then you'll need stiffer wood and lighter points to be able to use a thinner shaft. Your bow might not thank you for that. If it isn't tillered like a Greyhound and can't transfer all the energy to a light arrow it will try to yank your elbow from its socket.
Feels like you are conflating thickness and weight. At very short range getting thicker shats helps to reduce breaking, but your spine will be the same as smaller shafts since you have to adjust the weight to alighter wood, which in turn will typically be softer in spine. And finally high draw weight bows with proper thecnique and training will not ruin your shoulders, conversly even light (30-40#) bows will mess your shoulders up with improper techinique.
I’ve been making crossbow bolts for my medieval style crossbows for years, and it just occurred to me how much more work full length arrows are. My Bolts might end up being 14 inches with the head, so the actual shaft might be around 12 inches. This seems like just that much more wood working. Love it, super interesting.
I go the easy way and make my arrows from garden bamboo stakes from Lowes. Straighten them out with a propane torch, which also cures the bamboo, add a point made from a duplex nail and fletch them with locally collected goose feathers. I use a fletching jig which helps with alignment. The tricky part is adjusting the weight and balance and getting the spline right for the bow they're meant for. I like your use of hot glue.
very nicely done. i like the nature footage between segments. here in the east the emerald ash borer has decimated all our ash. it is all gone. (thank you China)
That was an awesome video. Enjoy the music and the occasional nature cutaway. As a suggested future video, I think a great companion video to your 1 hour survival bow making video would be a 1 hour survival arrow making video.
So you might already be doing this but if you’d make all these wonderfully beautiful notes you make into a handbook for fletching, and one for bowmaking I would 100% buy them. I love the video but being able to go through the a book with those illustrations while making my own arrows would be wonderful
Parabéns pelo belo trabalho, foi inspirador. Faço minhas próprias flechas também e seu vídeo me ensinou formas de torna-las melhor. Muito obrigado e continue fazendo mais belos vídeos como esse.
Your videos are a godsend for entry level bowyers, love it! Any chance you make a survival arrow video such as using bare minimum tools to get it done with less than ideal materials? I have very little wood working experience but is there a way to compress the fibers of the wood to make stiffer spined, thinner arrows like before making them cylindrical? I draw 29" so finding wood arrows that are spined and long enough for my 50lb recurve is what's kept me from making/trying wood ones yet. I'm still learning basic wood working and starting on a bow rack before I attempt making arrows
hey great video I checked it out because my mom has an arrowhead that got stuck in her tire while she was driving and she wanted to know if I wanted to make an arrow out of it. Thanks for making this video it was really helpful.
They make that funny hissing sound in the air because you didn't cut the ends off the feathers. If you lowered the profile by 1/2" they would fly much quieter and quicker.
Let me put in my order for a bow and 10 of those arrows please!! But leave the points off so I can attach my own arrowheads I hunt for. Great skills and I love this video, thank you sir!
I can definitely agree with preferring natural grain arrows over machined ones I like split ones but I usually prefer to use straight shoots that are already about the right size, which leaves me with a lot less work to do. Either way, it's a lot of fun. I'm no expert but I believe this has been a pretty common practice with many cultures throughout history, so I definitely didn't come up with it.
I used to make crossbow bolts by roughly shaping a bit of straight-grained wood and driving it through an ordinary steel nut of convenient diameter. I made my arrows from bought POC shafts though...
In my culture we make bows and arrrows from bamboo. I thought everyone does but then I realize I live in Asia and we got a lot of bamboo compared to the rest of the world😅
You're a talented carpenter! As a trim carpenter myself, I would love to find time to do a project like this. I used to build my own arrows as a teenager but I used cedar shafts that I bought also pre-made fletching. I would like to know what kind of wood you used. maple? Also, you forgot to mention that one added benefit of the hot glue for the arrowheads is that you can heat them up from the outside to remove them and change them.
Have you seen that Oklahoma Indian guy teach people how to make traditional bows? Not sure what tribe he is from but he also shows flint knapping and explains why so many bad arrows heads and bad knife blades are found everywhere. He says he reckons, and it makes sense, that they’re practice pieces discarded by children who were learning about it.
Making arrows Tremendously Necessary Skill.... Great job ....I also enjoy making Em.....Wild Roses, have the best spines....(not thorns) to those unlearned..... Dogwood, Tamarack, Chestnut, ( nice straight shoots) of course Cedar, River Cain...Bamboo, Ash...Willows in a pinch..... Chokecherry....Probably the best...!!!!
You could also make a dowel jig with a sharp chisel or plane knife to make the shafts round, they will all be the same size that way as well. basically just a board with a hole in it and a slanted slot for the blade to fit.
This is of course one way to do it by hand however, to let you in on a "secret" (from my Native American heritage), Natives that made their own fletching used a pole lathe and course rock to machine them nice and round then tied them togeher, soaked them in hot water or burried and steamed them to loosen them up a bit, then let them dry for about a week to insure they were straight. They end up super straight that way. They had a lot of time on their hands but there was trading and we couldn't always retrieve their arrows to reuse them so they were manufactured for the scenario of losing or breaking them and for trading, sales, and bartering.
Just a small tip, most of the scenes in this video could benefit from focus lock, camera is constantly trying to autofocus and its distracting. Most high end cameras have the focus lock option. Regardless, beautifl video and amazing audio! Thank you!
Great work as always! Love the different ways to make arrows and attach fletchings. Looks like some nice Ash arrows. I know spine matters a lot to how an arrow shoots out of a bow and it looks like your arrows are flying pretty true out of that bow. Do you think you got lucky or is there some magic involved from making them by hand and splitting them? Would be interested in your thoughts of course.
I still spine them, I just use my gut feeling rather than measuring. Ryan Gil has a great video on how self bows can be much more forgiving of spine than we think
I've started making bow and arrows for my son for a while, and this video clarified a tremendous amount of gaps in my process! Thanks! I had a problem when making arrows the way you taught here: when I split the log lengthwise, it curves from the fibers tension... how do I avoid that?
It’s hard to avoid, this is just the internal stress of the log relieving itself. It helps if you wait until the wood is fully dry and stable before splitting into shafts. If you google the term ‘reaction wood’ you’ll find a lot more info about this phenomenon
Thanks a lot that was interesting, I've never made my own arrows! I've made my own bows and of course I have killed a lot of deer starting out in the late 1960s
Hello, i am huge fan of your work and love for nature you are really wonderful artist i just have a couple request to make i hope my comment will get to you can suggest me some woods in india because i live in india and we don't have availability of yew and woods like that can you suggest me any another wood ? And also another request can you make tutorial on how to make bamboo bows? Thank you love from india 🇮🇳
@@DanSantanaBows oh nice! I'll definitely check that out! Mine is also incredibly old. I can't remember the maker off the top of my head but when I looked it up it said late 1800s used for carving ship masts.
Those are big recurves for you Dan! How did it go to make a bow with such deep recurves? How would you say it affects the efficiency if at all? It looks very fast, what's the poundage also? Nice vid btw
This one’s from 2019 and draws 37# at 28” with hollow limbs which give it a little more early draw weight. I have gotten a little less interested in big sweeping recurves since they can be so hard to give proper alignment. I’ve tended to prefer stout tight curves since they’re a little easier to tame
Where on earth did you get the red handled Moira “frosts”, knife. Man. Haven’t seen the original red painted ones for years. I got my first one in 1968 in Labrador at the Hudson Bay company store, I think couple of dollars, my older brother got the larger sized one and I got the one similar to yours. It now has a nice handmade handle and sheath, and has a lot of good stories to tell with 40 years of big game hunting, and before that cleaned hundreds of brook trout. good vid.
Search for mora classic, they’re making a very similar knife again. They’re not the same frost line of knives, but from what I can tell the steel is tempered perfectly and the edge it comes out of the box with is super sharp
Perhaps you could give me some advice on the covering of wooden arrows. I am using an acrylic foor varnish for parque tiles, I am told it is a hard varnish easily applied. All of which seems to be true, but, I always suffer target burn and pulling out the arrows is both difficult and takes some of the target with it being stuck to varnish. You mention chalaque, how does it compare other finishes to be able to avoid this problem, and how available is it . Cheers, and a good video too.
How do you all make arrows? This is just how I do it. Most bowyers use a shooting board, but I think it’s more fun to carve the shafts freehand
what is a shooting board when it comes to arrow making?
@@dankolord It is a board with a groove in the middle and a stop at the back. Usually the grove is a right angled triangle. You place the arrow shaft in the groove against the backstop and can then use a plane to get a rather even shaft and reduce it down to the size you want it.
Great video! My technique is very similar to yours up until the final shaping. At that point I use a hand plane, and then a sizer which is essentially a hole, the correct diameter, drilled in a piece of steel that I pull the shaft through...
Thanks Dan for another well done and educational video! As for the "bow gods" well... there is only one God and His name is Jesus Christ! (1 Timothy 2:5)
God bless,
Jesse Gjefle
@@primitivepreacher8964 I don’t remember that part in the bowyer’s bible 😂
Thanks for the kind words Jesse!
I buy beech dowels from a hardaware shop, I would also like to make the shafts on my own, in the future...
Apart from everything else stellar in this video, these are the best sounding arrows I've ever heard. Absolutely lovely.
They’re a little louder when you don’t trim them but I love it!
I've long since lost count of the number of bows I've made but I have yet to make an arrow. This will be my inspiration. My brother hunts geese. I'lll ask him for feathers and will definitely leave them untrimmed.
@@mrTwisby Do you use the bows you make for hunting or just for fun?
@@BurntBread39 Well, as of yet, bow hunting is illegal here in Iceland. So just for fun.
@@mrTwisbywow. Iceland sounds lovely. Just kidding ha. I bet Heroin's legal and age of consent is 10tho
The 1950's boys made their oun bows & arrows !! I'm 75 , and we did well frog hunting , dove , etc . Home made sling shots , useing the old red tire tube!! Good hunting my buddies !!!! 👍👍👍👍
Your videos are just the right mix of information, relaxation and skill in the craft. It is always a pleasure to watch them, no matter the topic!
Thank you very much!
I’ve watched a lot of videos and read a lot of books on making both bows and arrows. This has to be the most easily digestible and comprehensive video I’ve seen on the topic condensed down into a reasonable amount of time.
Wow! Thanks John I’m glad to hear that
Like many old methods I feel like this is an almost lost art. Beautiful work.
Superb work Dan , a real antidote to the crazy world we now inhabit . Thanks again for sharing .
Awesome video Dan! There's something special about shooting your own arrows from your own bow... Keep up the great content!
Thanks David! Can’t get enough of it
I know nothing about bow/arrow making but I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for the informative and entertaining content.
Awesome craftsmanship combined with awesome editing/narrating and awesome music.
What more can one ask for?
I was fortunate to see the opening of sealed barrel full of arrows.
What struck me most was that even they where tightly packed few feathers was damaged or they where all waxed and in prime condition even though they where several hundreds years old.
Oh my. I dont have the skills, tools, nor raw materials to do any of this but iI love target archery and enjoyed the sport in my youth. Watching your video feels like taking a masterclass. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
The sound of your arrows is on point. Just amazingly satisfying.
Nice work. Hey a tip for sanding shafts - you can put them in a drill and spin them - that might actually help with consistent shape.
Regarding arrow thickness: a good rule of thumb is: shorter target range = thicker arrows. I don't know any numbers for wooden arrows though
I used to do competitive archery for several years and I had different sets for 18, 50 and 80 meter competitions for this reason. Granted, they were aluminium-carbon-compound, not wooden, but I suppose this should apply regardless.
A thicker arrow will bend and flex less and thus reach a stable flight more quickly, making you more accurate at shorter ranges. A thin arrow at 18m will bend enough to lose you one or more points just by the variation in tip position at impact. Not to mention that arrows impacting the target while still flexing can easily snap, something that can get expensive quickly if you're using ACC or CC arrows lol.
Conversely, at longer ranges you will want the substantially lighter, thinner arrows. Because of their lower weight, you don't need to aim as high and get to shoot from a more comfortable(read: accurate) shooting position, allowing you to be more accurate. Thick arrows might not even reach the 80m targets if you're using a "normal" draw weight, i.e. one that wont ruin your shoulders within 5 years
It does apply, but only for the more center-shot bows. Mongol flight arrows were very barrelled, so both stiff and light. For a bow that needs a spined shaft to go around the handle in a tuned way, that will be a very limiting factor, so then you'll need stiffer wood and lighter points to be able to use a thinner shaft. Your bow might not thank you for that. If it isn't tillered like a Greyhound and can't transfer all the energy to a light arrow it will try to yank your elbow from its socket.
Long winded speech.
Feels like you are conflating thickness and weight. At very short range getting thicker shats helps to reduce breaking, but your spine will be the same as smaller shafts since you have to adjust the weight to alighter wood, which in turn will typically be softer in spine. And finally high draw weight bows with proper thecnique and training will not ruin your shoulders, conversly even light (30-40#) bows will mess your shoulders up with improper techinique.
I love these nature scenes you put in the video
Beautifully done it's a shame that not too many people practice and study the old ways anymore
I’ve been making crossbow bolts for my medieval style crossbows for years, and it just occurred to me how much more work full length arrows are. My
Bolts might end up being 14 inches with the head, so the actual shaft might be around 12 inches. This seems like just that much more wood working. Love it, super interesting.
According to 1500s Dutch records, a single complete arrow sold for about the same price as a longbow stave in Holland.
Great tutorial, awesome cinematography and craftsmanship.
Looking you do it looks so easy!!! The video and and the music have therapeutic calming effects!
Great job!
Awesome video Dan, you certainly are an awesome Bowyer ... God has really blessed you with knowledge and talent. Tanks for sharing.
Your arrows have such a satisfying whoosh when they're in the air
Your videos are an audiovisual delight! Candy for the brain 🎉
Wow, thank you!
Great attention to details in your craftsmanship! Excellent didactic! Keep up the good work.
Thank you!
I go the easy way and make my arrows from garden bamboo stakes from Lowes. Straighten them out with a propane torch, which also cures the bamboo, add a point made from a duplex nail and fletch them with locally collected goose feathers. I use a fletching jig which helps with alignment. The tricky part is adjusting the weight and balance and getting the spline right for the bow they're meant for. I like your use of hot glue.
Yeah those are fun. I made some like that for the bundle tutorial
What a relaxing video. Your skill is amazing.
Thank you!
I would give you an oscar for this video. Thank you sir.
muchas gracias por tu contenido de gran calidad. felicita a tu primo por su música
Muchas gracias Juan!
Awesome video man. First time ever looking at how arrows are made, mad skill bro! Music is awesome too!
Hermoso video! Saludos de Uruguay
WARNING! All persons seen in the video are trained professionals under expert supervision. Please, do attempt this at home. It is indeed quite fun.
very nicely done.
i like the nature footage between segments.
here in the east the emerald ash borer has decimated all our ash. it is all gone. (thank you China)
Beautiful video
And amazing work
That was an awesome video. Enjoy the music and the occasional nature cutaway.
As a suggested future video, I think a great companion video to your 1 hour survival bow making video would be a 1 hour survival arrow making video.
Cool video. I love the chemtrail skies we all live with now.
Great Job my friend, love the music
Great video Dan. Lovely work.
realy love your videos and whole your work thanks
Beautiful overview and final product! The beaver footage made me giggle ☺️
That was a muskrat, but I have some beaver footage for the next one!
Great video and sweet arrows!
Thanks!
Beautiful work as always
Thank you! Cheers!
I love your workshop bro!
You are a very good craftsman, I’m surprised though, that you prefer the vice to a shave horse . Thanks for sharing .
I do have a shaving horse but I can get a lot more power and control standing up and putting my back and legs into it
@@DanSantanaBows Fair comment Dan, you have clearly perfected the techniques . Looks like you are a pretty good shot too !! Regards from England .
Well done! presentation, I look forward to seeing some of your other videos.
those feathers make a wonderfull sound! 👍
Nice work sir, you have a very nice shop
Awesome video, you are very talented.
Elegant! A delightful film
So you might already be doing this but if you’d make all these wonderfully beautiful notes you make into a handbook for fletching, and one for bowmaking I would 100% buy them. I love the video but being able to go through the a book with those illustrations while making my own arrows would be wonderful
Parabéns pelo belo trabalho, foi inspirador. Faço minhas próprias flechas também e seu vídeo me ensinou formas de torna-las melhor.
Muito obrigado e continue fazendo mais belos vídeos como esse.
Thank you very much, you are very detailed and that is appreciated.
Keep making bows and playing flamenco bro. Enjoyed the video.
Thank you for doing this video been doing it for years but I honestly needed some more advice
Your videos are a godsend for entry level bowyers, love it! Any chance you make a survival arrow video such as using bare minimum tools to get it done with less than ideal materials?
I have very little wood working experience but is there a way to compress the fibers of the wood to make stiffer spined, thinner arrows like before making them cylindrical? I draw 29" so finding wood arrows that are spined and long enough for my 50lb recurve is what's kept me from making/trying wood ones yet. I'm still learning basic wood working and starting on a bow rack before I attempt making arrows
Excellent work! Thank You for nice details video! Merry Christmas and happy New year!🎉🎉🎉
Excellent. Thanks for sharing.
hey great video I checked it out because my mom has an arrowhead that got stuck in her tire while she was driving and she wanted to know if I wanted to make an arrow out of it. Thanks for making this video it was really helpful.
They make that funny hissing sound in the air because you didn't cut the ends off the feathers. If you lowered the profile by 1/2" they would fly much quieter and quicker.
As I said you should trim your arrows how you want them. I wanted flu flu type fletchings
Let me put in my order for a bow and 10 of those arrows please!! But leave the points off so I can attach my own arrowheads I hunt for. Great skills and I love this video, thank you sir!
Damn the sound is amazing! 😮
Excellent video_ very informative !!!
I can definitely agree with preferring natural grain arrows over machined ones
I like split ones but I usually prefer to use straight shoots that are already about the right size, which leaves me with a lot less work to do. Either way, it's a lot of fun.
I'm no expert but I believe this has been a pretty common practice with many cultures throughout history, so I definitely didn't come up with it.
I craft my own arrows. Each one, a meditation
Love the opinel knife
That’s the mora classic I think you’re referring to. I do have an opinel but not in the shop
I used to make crossbow bolts by roughly shaping a bit of straight-grained wood and driving it through an ordinary steel nut of convenient diameter. I made my arrows from bought POC shafts though...
In my culture we make bows and arrrows from bamboo. I thought everyone does but then I realize I live in Asia and we got a lot of bamboo compared to the rest of the world😅
I’d use it more if I had it!
Beautiful video, thank you.
You're a talented carpenter! As a trim carpenter myself, I would love to find time to do a project like this. I used to build my own arrows as a teenager but I used cedar shafts that I bought also pre-made fletching. I would like to know what kind of wood you used. maple? Also, you forgot to mention that one added benefit of the hot glue for the arrowheads is that you can heat them up from the outside to remove them and change them.
That draw n release sound 😮💨😮💨
Have you seen that Oklahoma Indian guy teach people how to make traditional bows? Not sure what tribe he is from but he also shows flint knapping and explains why so many bad arrows heads and bad knife blades are found everywhere. He says he reckons, and it makes sense, that they’re practice pieces discarded by children who were learning about it.
Where can I find his channel? Name?
loctite gel super glue is a very nice glue that i use when fletching. i do love all natural though!
Making arrows Tremendously Necessary Skill....
Great job ....I also enjoy making Em.....Wild Roses, have the best spines....(not thorns)
to those unlearned..... Dogwood, Tamarack,
Chestnut, ( nice straight shoots) of course Cedar, River Cain...Bamboo, Ash...Willows in a pinch..... Chokecherry....Probably the best...!!!!
Excellent video
You could also make a dowel jig with a sharp chisel or plane knife to make the shafts round, they will all be the same size that way as well. basically just a board with a hole in it and a slanted slot for the blade to fit.
I'd love to see you try stone knapping some stone arrow heads
This is of course one way to do it by hand however, to let you in on a "secret" (from my Native American heritage), Natives that made their own fletching used a pole lathe and course rock to machine them nice and round then tied them togeher, soaked them in hot water or burried and steamed them to loosen them up a bit, then let them dry for about a week to insure they were straight. They end up super straight that way.
They had a lot of time on their hands but there was trading and we couldn't always retrieve their arrows to reuse them so they were manufactured for the scenario of losing or breaking them and for trading, sales, and bartering.
Great work
Bare bow instinctive, the only way to go!
Damn how’s this dude so deadly. I can’t even place my shots well with a traditional bow
Just a small tip, most of the scenes in this video could benefit from focus lock, camera is constantly trying to autofocus and its distracting. Most high end cameras have the focus lock option. Regardless, beautifl video and amazing audio! Thank you!
i was using a new camera in this video and wasn’t used to the autofocus settings yet. Looking back i definitely see the issue!
Very interesting thanks for sharing subscribed 👌
Great work as always! Love the different ways to make arrows and attach fletchings. Looks like some nice Ash arrows. I know spine matters a lot to how an arrow shoots out of a bow and it looks like your arrows are flying pretty true out of that bow. Do you think you got lucky or is there some magic involved from making them by hand and splitting them? Would be interested in your thoughts of course.
I still spine them, I just use my gut feeling rather than measuring. Ryan Gil has a great video on how self bows can be much more forgiving of spine than we think
Great video
I've started making bow and arrows for my son for a while, and this video clarified a tremendous amount of gaps in my process! Thanks!
I had a problem when making arrows the way you taught here: when I split the log lengthwise, it curves from the fibers tension... how do I avoid that?
It’s hard to avoid, this is just the internal stress of the log relieving itself. It helps if you wait until the wood is fully dry and stable before splitting into shafts.
If you google the term ‘reaction wood’ you’ll find a lot more info about this phenomenon
@@DanSantanaBows wonderful!! I'll try that! Thanks a lot
That is really nice
Thanks a lot that was interesting, I've never made my own arrows! I've made my own bows and of course I have killed a lot of deer starting out in the late 1960s
Hello, i am huge fan of your work and love for nature you are really wonderful artist i just have a couple request to make i hope my comment will get to you can suggest me some woods in india because i live in india and we don't have availability of yew and woods like that can you suggest me any another wood ? And also another request can you make tutorial on how to make bamboo bows? Thank you love from india 🇮🇳
Who's the maker of that freaking drawknife?! The blade is so wide! Love it
It’s a very old L&IJ white timber framing knife, maybe 80-100 years old. See my drawknife video for more about it and the rest of my collection
@@DanSantanaBows oh nice! I'll definitely check that out! Mine is also incredibly old. I can't remember the maker off the top of my head but when I looked it up it said late 1800s used for carving ship masts.
Have you thought about incorporating an aeroplane wing design into the arrow shaft? To give it longer flight time. Why not try it out?
The aerodynamics don’t check out unfortunately. The friction just isn’t worth the lift. Flight archers have experimented with this extensively
Makes me remember a fallen cedar log that have been strucked by lightning and was already instant splitted in finest material .from thunder beings
I make my knocks using a small rock with an edge that leads up to two smoother & wider sides
Thanks for the video!
I make mine from OSB, they don't usually last too long though.
Dummies on here making their arrows with straight grain.
Those are big recurves for you Dan! How did it go to make a bow with such deep recurves? How would you say it affects the efficiency if at all? It looks very fast, what's the poundage also? Nice vid btw
This one’s from 2019 and draws 37# at 28” with hollow limbs which give it a little more early draw weight. I have gotten a little less interested in big sweeping recurves since they can be so hard to give proper alignment. I’ve tended to prefer stout tight curves since they’re a little easier to tame
Where on earth did you get the red handled Moira “frosts”, knife. Man. Haven’t seen the original red painted ones for years.
I got my first one in 1968 in Labrador at the Hudson Bay company store, I think couple of dollars, my older brother got the larger sized one and I got the one similar to yours. It now has a nice handmade handle and sheath, and has a lot of good stories to tell with 40 years of big game hunting, and before that cleaned hundreds of brook trout.
good vid.
Search for mora classic, they’re making a very similar knife again. They’re not the same frost line of knives, but from what I can tell the steel is tempered perfectly and the edge it comes out of the box with is super sharp
Perhaps you could give me some advice on the covering of wooden arrows. I am using an acrylic foor varnish for parque tiles, I am told it is a hard varnish easily applied. All of which seems to be true, but, I always suffer target burn and pulling out the arrows is both difficult and takes some of the target with it being stuck to varnish.
You mention chalaque, how does it compare other finishes to be able to avoid this problem, and how available is it .
Cheers, and a good video too.
You’re on my apocalypse team
15:59 Damn that bow sounded just like the ones used in the Troy movie
Por cierto en donde te encuentras, el paisaje es asombroso
Get yourself a shaving horse!
I have one, I just don’t really like to work sitting. I get more power and control standing up and can put more of my weight into it