Indians were not primitive. Actual primitive people did amazing things but most of the time it boiled down to picking up a boulder and smashing a rabbit before it ran away.
dang, if I spent that much effort making an arrow, I would never use it, I would probably just put it on a display and be like: oh yeah, I totaly made that.
8Bitkasper not native Indian they were American and weren't related to India at all Colombia " the guy that discovered some of America" thought he found a new rout to India and so when he saw native Americans he assumed they were Indian. He then proceeded to enslave and rape them.
you dont rip out arrows to survive anything stuck inside you you leave in as it may be blocking arterys and not allowing you to bleed out if you cant get to a hostipal and you need to get the arrow out you push it the rest of the way through unless its in front of vital organs also this is a compound arrow so if it was pulled out the barbed portion would come of and stay inside you
Well, seeing as how back then I´m pretty certain hospitals were few and far between, and not much better than anything you´d do at home, going to a hospital isn't really an option in Sir Hunters original scenario XD Of course though you should never pull out an arrow or anything that stabs you deeply, until you are in a controlled environment and have all the tools on hand to properly deal with it since its gotta come out sometime.
@@wolffforge4839 Yes, this is not for fishing unless it had a string attached to it. It looks like it was made to cause humans pain. It will not penetrate or fly that well. It will come off in the wound and be a real pain to get out. Likely deadly from later infection.
Douglas E Knapp I dont know about all tribes but With normal arrows our folks usually used plant fibers to tie on the heads for the same reason bow strings were usually made from plant fibers. sinew unravels when it gets wet. If sinew was used, especially without glue, they intended for the head to come off. If it was a war arrow it was most likely coated in poison or venom for added effect.
@@donnyc9430 Oooo, someone's jealous of my three likes. And moderately functional brain. Tell you what... you talk like you know something. Share your knowledge with us heathen folk.
@@lilscooby9864I mean it is, it’s not like y’all had the tech to travel through time this is the basics of technology, my ancestors used metal weapons but they where still primitive, basically what I’m getting at is truth hurts 🤷🏿♂️
Sam Jones sometimes you get better in smithing by just building an arrow - or by holding a piece of leather into the fire. i know it sounds weird, but it works.
BackyardBowyer Glass Buttes is the only knapp-in I have attended. I missed seeing you at this last one. This was the first time I didn't go it in the last 6 years. I had to save my time off to go bear hunting. I really enjoyed your latest video. Keep up the great work.
Wow! So much work went in to each arrow! I imagine that the Native Americans would do whatever they could to keep them from breaking and use them sparingly!
Damn son, thanks for the informative video, so much of our culture is lost and it’s nice to see people with knowledge of our traditional arrow making. Good job bud.
I'm not an archer by any means, nor do I fancy it extremely, but I admire arrows for some reason and especially if they are presented the way you did here. Great craftsmanship, I sure will check some of your other designs you mentioned on the end. I think I can use some of the techniques that as a reenactor, maybe even become an "archer".
See when you dont have TV and computers and stuff all you got time for is to make shanks and shivs... Thats why Native Americans were so good at it. If I had a choice. I would want to be born in America in 1000 AD. America has always had a strong soul. Even before the United States. Just something about this land...
scilver You know that I've never been sick in my life and never needed to go to the hospital once? Not every person on the planet has the immune system of an aids patient
Yeah? And I'm sure you have also been vaccinated for many diseases too lol. Plus you use modern hygiene practices such as washing your hands, brushing your teeth, bathing regularly etc.
That is awesome....making arrows was an art in itself and to think of a tribe using them must of kept the arrow maker in full time work...thank you for sharing such history with us, you never know, WW3 we could end up using these....
Hi, this is Glenn. 40 years ago on an island called Burnaby in the Haida Gwaii group, I made a yew wood stick bow heavy braided fishing line for a string. The arrow was the edge of a three foot cedar shake rounded off and fletched with found eagles feathers tied on with dental floss using surgeon's knots. I thought about using giant blue muscle shell for an arrow head but I found a piece of steel in the ocean that was too prefect to pass up. I shoot a small black tailed deer right through the chest the arrow went right through the deer, never too be found again. I think it took me three hours to find that deer. Note to self rifles are much more effective if you have one. Topo note, Burnaby Narrows is about 80 miles by kayak from Queen Charlotte City, Haida Gwaii.
But besides that, u are freaking awesome. You my friend have another level of patience, and a skill for doing native American work. Much love from the Cherokee nation in the mountains of east Tennessee.
I never get tired of watching this vid. If I made one of this arrow type, I'd put some kinda spell on it, etched into the shaft, so it gave enemies bad luck, & written in as old a language as possible from my ancestral homelands, prob'ly runes or something.
Amazing work! From one learning the craft - I love your detail. I also noticed blood stains on your knapping leather pad and I have plenty of those. Thanks for the video - great info!
Most native foreshaft points are friction fit not secured by sinue. The backshaft tips are just reinforced with sinue. This system was designed to allow the main arrow to fall away as the animal crashed through brush preventing damage to either componant. This arrow here has the foreshaft locked into place with sinue
Never thought about it but native Americans must have spent a lot of time sitting around the camp fire making arrows. You never see this in cowboy movies. Great video.
Excuse me my brother. But this is so cool. This is so detailed I’m very happy to see people like yourself holding an keeping the pass alive. Thank you and God bless my Brother
very cool. horsetail is an awesome plant. it can be dried, ground up and used as a salt substitute. it can be used a tea, . the romans used it to polish metals, the native americans also use it as a medicinal herb, and now I just learned they also used it for polishing as well.
I really enjoy your videos, they are truly educational on a level I would never have seen when I was studying Anthropology in the years gone bye. Top quality
Wow, a lot of work sure went into making a single arrow. Now imagine only making fifty or even just twenty of these just for hunting purposes. Amazing job btw!
Nice work it's good to see people still making things that helped the human species survive for thousands of years. I would like to see the effects of this arrow fired from a sheep antler bow into ballistic gel.
WoW!!! Great vid. A useful ancient art form to show off your skill. When a Brave, Warrior or Hunter made one of these you know how serious they were about their craft. Just think about the time & dedication it would take to learn how to properly make these. Keep up the great work & videos.
The piece of leather covering Shawn Woods thigh bears the genetic signature of the artisan, the blood claimed by the tens of thousands of stone, glass and obsidian shards produced.
Wow man that's impressive. It takes a real interest in authentic arrows to put the honest work you have done. And a very good person of character to hunt with it. My regards to you Sr. on a very special level of manhood.
To people that think "ohh this is so long to make", NO.. They also have people and tasks to do, you know. There are people that tasked to chop the wood and search for materials. There are people that do the woodcraft thing. There are people that do the bonework. And finally there are people that do the Fletchingwork thing. This thing also applies to European arrow making, Arabs, Chinese, etc. They're not alone. In this video it looks long because just himself that do all the work..
Nice looks similar to monkey arrows from the south and central americas As a young man my father lived around grand saline Tx home to largest salt mines in the americas the creek beds and rivers always yielded up arrow heads he was very lucky to have run up on a monkey arrow at the time the local historical folk couldn’t identify it they had to call folks from the Smithsonian to examine it was one of the rarest finds for the area it proved that that natives as far south as Colombia had journeyed thousands of miles to the great southern salt flats just to get the precious commodity
“I don’t have any red jasper so I’ll just use red obsidian” you know you’re a knapper when you don’t have the ridiculously common rock but have the rare one
finally made my 10 hour brutal arrow. aaand i missed
jollyjollyO ah that sucks is it broke like the arrowhead or the bone
10 day brutal arrow
Reaper I think he was joking...
Lol
Then I shot again, and I missed. Missed both times. Had another popsicle.
It's crazy to think there's such an art to just breaking rocks! Primitive humans were awesome!
To bad they were all killed off by Law makers.
Robert Cornelius thers an art to everything even breaking rocks
Indians were not primitive. Actual primitive people did amazing things but most of the time it boiled down to picking up a boulder and smashing a rabbit before it ran away.
@@robertcornelius3514 Nevermind, not worth responding to someone who doesn't know the history of Native Peoples, not that they are alive and well.
@@robertcornelius3514 - by law makers???
dang, if I spent that much effort making an arrow, I would never use it, I would probably just put it on a display and be like: oh yeah, I totaly made that.
Ikr? Still want to see this one shot though...
Lardian not only could you say you made it you can say you made it like a native Indian
8Bitkasper not native Indian they were American and weren't related to India at all Colombia " the guy that discovered some of America" thought he found a new rout to India and so when he saw native Americans he assumed they were Indian. He then proceeded to enslave and rape them.
+leetlebob yeah dam shame you forgot the Spaniard's came before him and did that and worse its not your fault its the education systems fault
yeah, some here
dude, mad respect the way you made that Arrow.
i almost felt bad thinking you'd shoot it somewhere.
fletching and all takes quite some practice
I feel the same man!
I feel the same man!
I feel the same man!
I feel the same man!
I feel the same man!
imagine being an enemy and getting shot by one of these it would be hell on earth ripping it out if you survive
you dont rip out arrows to survive anything stuck inside you you leave in as it may be blocking arterys and not allowing you to bleed out if you cant get to a hostipal and you need to get the arrow out you push it the rest of the way through unless its in front of vital organs
also this is a compound arrow so if it was pulled out the barbed portion would come of and stay inside you
That and arrow have reverse barbs, the more you try to pull it out the bigger the wound becomes.
Usually, you'd make incisions before pulling the arrow out.
Pushing it through is stupid. Just make a couple cuts so the arrow can be removed.
manictiger if he made the shaft near the arrow head even thinner it migh break after inpact leaving the arrow head inside lel
Well, seeing as how back then I´m pretty certain hospitals were few and far between, and not much better than anything you´d do at home, going to a hospital isn't really an option in Sir Hunters original scenario XD Of course though you should never pull out an arrow or anything that stabs you deeply, until you are in a controlled environment and have all the tools on hand to properly deal with it since its gotta come out sometime.
It AMAZES me that they put so much work into ONE arrow that they very well may never see again depending on the circumstance. True art
after successful attacks they would loot the battlefield and get a good amount of the arrows back
@@kidthebilly7766 arrows are rarely used in battle. 99.9% of your life, you're not engaging in battle, you're hunting for fish and game.
@@BoopSnoot fighting between tribes was a lot more common than ".1% of your life" idk where you got that statistic lol
I garuntee their arrows were far more crude and quick
BenMc 96 the point of the barbs is that it stays in the prey so they will get it back they just have it follow the blood trail
I don't know anything about native american's weaponry, but this type of arrow seems practical for fishing purpose
Other than the fact that the point is meant to come off the shaft if pulled..... Fish gets away... wounded, dies.
@@wolffforge4839 Yes, this is not for fishing unless it had a string attached to it. It looks like it was made to cause humans pain. It will not penetrate or fly that well. It will come off in the wound and be a real pain to get out. Likely deadly from later infection.
Douglas E Knapp
I dont know about all tribes but With normal arrows our folks usually used plant fibers to tie on the heads for the same reason bow strings were usually made from plant fibers. sinew unravels when it gets wet. If sinew was used, especially without glue, they intended for the head to come off.
If it was a war arrow it was most likely coated in poison or venom for added effect.
@@aaronengland8289 lol yall are funny thinking you know something
@@donnyc9430
Oooo, someone's jealous of my three likes. And moderately functional brain.
Tell you what... you talk like you know something. Share your knowledge with us heathen folk.
Wow a true craftsman beautiful work.
Obsidian arrows you say? Are you preparing to fight the Night King?
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preparing for bad writing.
I love how you didn't cut corners and painted it the traditional colors and everything. That's how you show proper respect.
maybe 3 years old but him calling my tribal practices primitive is degrading no respect shown
@@lilscooby9864I mean it is, it’s not like y’all had the tech to travel through time this is the basics of technology, my ancestors used metal weapons but they where still primitive, basically what I’m getting at is truth hurts 🤷🏿♂️
Smithing increased to 100
smithing?
Sam Jones
sometimes you get better in smithing by just building an arrow - or by holding a piece of leather into the fire. i know it sounds weird, but it works.
ah in all the games ive played thats never been smithing, crafting/fletching
+Sam Jones hey fatass. too bad you don't have the skill to make one of these, let alone even skin a deer
ur right tbh, why would i waste time on making one of these for no reason, also im 140
you need to do a penatration test with this arrow. Like if you agree
austin wolfe , Oh HELL NO! Id put this artwork in a glass case & mount it on my wall!! Can buy commercial arrows all day long for "penetration" tests.
AWW HELL NAW
There goes the arrow but it would be great for the fans. Would need a brisket or something as well. Then you can have a BBQ 😄
Are you kidding that arrow would take hours to make.
One word to describe your work.
AWESOME!
Wow... That is an amazing arrow, definitely an arrow to be mounted and displayed in a glassed frame!
Well done mate on an impressive piece of work
The precision of the making of the flakes amazes me. I think I would break the whole thing if I tried.
Outstanding job.
Nice work! That really is a wicked arrow. Are you going to any knapp-ins this year?
BackyardBowyer Glass Buttes is the only knapp-in I have attended. I missed seeing you at this last one. This was the first time I didn't go it in the last 6 years. I had to save my time off to go bear hunting. I really enjoyed your latest video. Keep up the great work.
+Shawn Woods i am interested in having you make me one for my wife contact me at your earliest convenience
+Shawn Woods got a video on your treadle grinder?
Hint: wet bone is much, much more easy to grind and shape than dry bone and it leaves the bone nicely polished too.
Do you have a test video of this arrow?
So much work for a single arrow. Really makes you respect the skill and patience of Native Americans.
Easily one of the most accurate and informative UA-camrs I've ever seen. Keep up the great work Shawn.
Beautiful. One of the most intricate and well reproduced NA pieces I have ever seen. Thanks.
I had no idea that making an arrow was so labor intensive. Very interesting video.
Wow! So much work went in to each arrow! I imagine that the Native Americans would do whatever they could to keep them from breaking and use them sparingly!
Shawn, you are quite the craftsman.
I couldn't do anything nearly this good on my best day.
Damn son, thanks for the informative video, so much of our culture is lost and it’s nice to see people with knowledge of our traditional arrow making. Good job bud.
I'm not an archer by any means, nor do I fancy it extremely, but I admire arrows for some reason and especially if they are presented the way you did here. Great craftsmanship, I sure will check some of your other designs you mentioned on the end. I think I can use some of the techniques that as a reenactor, maybe even become an "archer".
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youtube: watch this native American arrow making video
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See when you dont have TV and computers and stuff all you got time for is to make shanks and shivs... Thats why Native Americans were so good at it. If I had a choice. I would want to be born in America in 1000 AD. America has always had a strong soul. Even before the United States. Just something about this land...
scilver You know that I've never been sick in my life and never needed to go to the hospital once? Not every person on the planet has the immune system of an aids patient
scilver
Also smallpox was a European Disease...
Yeah? And I'm sure you have also been vaccinated for many diseases too lol. Plus you use modern hygiene practices such as washing your hands, brushing your teeth, bathing regularly etc.
***** Nope, Nope and nope... I have bad hygiene practices and I've never been vaccinated... I still don't get sick.
If you said I had to be a slave but I got to chose what I was, where I was, and when I was I’d say a Roman slave who spoke Latin and Greek
I live close to Hupa. The history, and culture of the local tribes is truly amazing!!
You have to really hate someone to attack him with these
I believe the tribes had more than enough reasons to hate each other.
Dantick09 not only would it be painful going in it would be painful coming out
Damn it Shawn! Another amazing video. I'll watch this one several times. Great job and what a great looking arrow. Keep them up man.
Most impressive, Shawn does good work.
Please pay no mind to these people with negative comments I really like your videos thanks for sharing them with us, you are very talented 🙂
Impressive work! :)
Amazing skills, nice and well explained video, thank you from England.
I very much enjoyed watching. That was easily the best how to on bow making I've ever watched bravo! please, keep up the good work.
Amazing video (and skills)! The best I have seen so far. I didn't even know about this style arrow. Thank you.
That is awesome....making arrows was an art in itself and to think of a tribe using them must of kept the arrow maker in full time work...thank you for sharing such history with us, you never know, WW3 we could end up using these....
Outstanding ! You are a true craftsman ! Thank You !!!!!!!!!!!!!
that's an awesome homemade grinder. I'm new to your channel so im not all that caught up. Do you have a video on how you made it?
oscar gonzalez I would also like more information.
Hi, this is Glenn. 40 years ago on an island called Burnaby in the Haida Gwaii group, I made a yew wood stick bow heavy braided fishing line for a string. The arrow was the edge of a three foot cedar shake rounded off and fletched with found eagles feathers tied on with dental floss using surgeon's knots. I thought about using giant blue muscle shell for an arrow head but I found a piece of steel in the ocean that was too prefect to pass up.
I shoot a small black tailed deer right through the chest the arrow went right through the deer, never too be found again. I think it took me three hours to find that deer. Note to self rifles are much more effective if you have one. Topo note, Burnaby Narrows is about 80 miles by kayak from Queen Charlotte City, Haida Gwaii.
This is really where the term "make every shot count" came from. The time and effort to make just 1 arrow, you would want to make every one count lol.
But besides that, u are freaking awesome. You my friend have another level of patience, and a skill for doing native American work. Much love from the Cherokee nation in the mountains of east Tennessee.
terrific study and application, I'm not even a hunter but will create a series of 13 arrows for my own pleasure. !
I never get tired of watching this vid. If I made one of this arrow type, I'd put some kinda spell on it, etched into the shaft, so it gave enemies bad luck, & written in as old a language as possible from my ancestral homelands, prob'ly runes or something.
Amazing work! From one learning the craft - I love your detail. I also noticed blood stains on your knapping leather pad and I have plenty of those. Thanks for the video - great info!
Pretty awesome stuff. Deadly looking arrow for sure. 😮💯👏
Most native foreshaft points are friction fit not secured by sinue. The backshaft tips are just reinforced with sinue. This system was designed to allow the main arrow to fall away as the animal crashed through brush preventing damage to either componant. This arrow here has the foreshaft locked into place with sinue
Never thought about it but native Americans must have spent a lot of time sitting around the camp fire making arrows. You never see this in cowboy movies. Great video.
So much work for just one arrow, incredible.
You show great respect for the original method, this was great to watch!
Thank you for your show !! You are the man !! Too COOL !!
that was a hella effort to make just one arrow, respect !
Beautiful arrow and a "badass" . If I can do it, I never use and shoot it, just put in the frame and look at it every day. LOL. Thank you, great work.
Excuse me my brother.
But this is so cool. This is so detailed I’m very happy to see people like yourself holding an keeping the pass alive. Thank you and God bless my Brother
Hey Shawn, out of the 200 some odd channels I subscribe to, yours has to be one of my favorites. Keep up the great work! Your videos are awesome!
ive learned more history watching these videos then i ever did in school.
Good looking arrow.. I admire your skill and tenacity..
you make arrow flaking look easy I could never do this in one go if I tried
very cool. horsetail is an awesome plant. it can be dried, ground up and used as a salt substitute. it can be used a tea, . the romans used it to polish metals, the native americans also use it as a medicinal herb, and now I just learned they also used it for polishing as well.
Incredible craftsmanship!!!
I really enjoy your videos, they are truly educational on a level I would never have seen when I was studying Anthropology in the years gone bye. Top quality
I like watching traditional style weapon making
I don't I'd ever take the time to make one of these but its awesome to see how its done traditionally! I alway had wondered!
Nice, Shawn! That thing is nasty!....
Amazing, wish you still made videos like these? Arrowhead Monday!
Awesome! Ive been waiting for another tutorial on arrows! Thanks shawn!
Wow, a lot of work sure went into making a single arrow. Now imagine only making fifty or even just twenty of these just for hunting purposes. Amazing job btw!
the attention to detail and accuracy is amazing well done sir.
A gorgeous job on that arrow.
Hard to think such precision and intricacy was capable with some smashed stone.
Nice work it's good to see people still making things that helped the human species survive for thousands of years.
I would like to see the effects of this arrow fired from a sheep antler bow into ballistic gel.
looks time consuming but well worth it in the end great job
Thank you for making the area I didn't know how to do that now I do thank you very much very helpful awesome
Shawn Woods is one of my favorite youtubers
i had no idea how difficult this was to make. I always figured you just grind it the way you wanted. awesome bro, and thanks fkr yhis vid.
I love how you do everything naturally very inspirational as a bowyer
WoW!!! Great vid. A useful ancient art form to show off your skill. When a Brave, Warrior or Hunter made one of these you know how serious they were about their craft. Just think about the time & dedication it would take to learn how to properly make these. Keep up the great work & videos.
Ekosi/Thank you.
our people lost this way of life.
thanks for giving it back by showing me.
Awesome arrow I really enjoy your vids keep it up
Love to buy one of those arrows for display purposes, do you sell them. I live in northern Ireland.
Incredible craftsmanship.
man that's sophisticated.
So much work for a single arrow. Better not miss.
Absolutely amazing thanks for demonstrating 🏅👍
Gorgeous work man. Nicely done.
This is great! I'm learning so much from your videos
just beautiful work and you got a good voice for narration young man.
The piece of leather covering Shawn Woods thigh bears the genetic signature of the artisan, the blood claimed by the tens of thousands of stone, glass and obsidian shards produced.
what an exceptional work of art.love it. details are remarkable a masters workmanship
Sick skills you got there! Would have been awesome to see you shoot it!
Wow man that's impressive. It takes a real interest in authentic arrows to put the honest work you have done. And a very good person of character to hunt with it. My regards to you Sr. on a very special level of manhood.
i really like your channel, goes from traps to arrow making, love it!
When he hit that obsidian bro it sounded like the minecraft glass break sound
Wouldn't it be beneficial to file the leading edge of the barbs to an angle to allow them to more easily pass through the cut made by the arrowhead?
To people that think "ohh this is so long to make", NO..
They also have people and tasks to do, you know.
There are people that tasked to chop the wood and search for materials.
There are people that do the woodcraft thing.
There are people that do the bonework.
And finally there are people that do the Fletchingwork thing.
This thing also applies to European arrow making, Arabs, Chinese, etc.
They're not alone.
In this video it looks long because just himself that do all the work..
The assembly line has been around for pretty much all of human history.
Nice looks similar to monkey arrows from the south and central americas
As a young man my father lived around grand saline Tx home to largest salt mines in the americas the creek beds and rivers always yielded up arrow heads he was very lucky to have run up on a monkey arrow at the time the local historical folk couldn’t identify it they had to call folks from the Smithsonian to examine it was one of the rarest finds for the area it proved that that natives as far south as Colombia had journeyed thousands of miles to the great southern salt flats just to get the precious commodity
“I don’t have any red jasper so I’ll just use red obsidian” you know you’re a knapper when you don’t have the ridiculously common rock but have the rare one
cause and effect,thats what that arrow tip was all about.brutal but effective,bring down big game with that one shot.
Brilliant. Thank you for your skill and time.
Wow! Really cool, and very informative...thanks for showing us this Shawn!!
amazing brother. this really gives one a deep appreciation for the time and work, everyday items require. thanks.