Names of arrow guides

Bede · Post by **Bede** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:21 am

Russ,
I will take some pictures of the two guides I used and measure them and the arrows. I even made one out of aluminium from a piece that was square sectioned with three sides. It wasn't very good but it was safer.

I am getting ready to do some more tests so I will include guide arrows.

Russ Mitchell · Post by **Russ Mitchell** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 3:27 pm

Thanks for the encouragement, Thomas. I tried making one of the ones through which the string runs yesterday... but PVC was a bad material choice... too heavy. All I got out of it was a keenly beaten-up hand was the thing bounced all over the place.

Bede, I will gladly suck up as much experimental data as you can generate: as soon as I get my contributor's copies, I'll send you what I was up to, as well.

Bede · Post by **Bede** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:34 am

PVC tubing is unsuitable for arrow guides and can be very dangerous. My first guide many years ago was made from PVC and it flexed alarmingly causing the darts to fly off in unpredictable directions.

Many original guides in the Middle East were made of wood with the grooved carved out with chisels. If you have access to a router, you can make a guide quickly and accurately. A friend of mine carved out the grooves of the two wooden guides I made and they work flawlessly.

Thomas Duvernay · Post by **Thomas Duvernay** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 1:39 am

One guide that was given to me was made out of fiberglass and it flexed terribly. The ones I made out of Martha Stewart bamboo didn't flex that way, and they worked well.

T

Russ Mitchell · Post by **Russ Mitchell** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:08 pm

I have access to a router, and am sorta ready to try using it... trying to remember my lessons on how it worked. (Now, why I can use a joiner w/ no trouble, but a router throws me....)

Thanks, gents.

Samuraiwarrior · Post by **Samuraiwarrior** » Thu Jun 09, 2005 4:48 pm

Thanks for pointing that out. The pics are now good.

Russ Mitchell · Post by **Russ Mitchell** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:11 pm

Photobucket refuses to display the images.

Thomas Duvernay · Post by **Thomas Duvernay** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:35 pm

A short video of pyonjon shooting:

http://www.arrow.or.kr/htm/data/index.php?cate=data5

Stephen Selby · Post by **Stephen Selby** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:16 am

Tom: A short video of pyonjon shooting

Is that still a thumb release there? I couldn't quite make it out.

Thomas Duvernay · Post by **Thomas Duvernay** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:26 am

Yeah, it was a thumb release, although without great form.

T

osmiu · Post by **osmiu** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 4:12 pm

a old thread , but inspiring ....
I threw today this little guy (29 cm)

at 397 meters

little guy it is from today the undisputed , unofficial champion of romanian flight shooting , and put to a end a unofficial record of 350 meters established by ginni in a flight shooting contest , near Ploiesti , Romania .

happy new year ... !!!

Jos?Dom · Post by **Jos?Dom** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:08 pm

Please, more detail about your equipment used on that record.

osmiu · Post by **osmiu** » Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:47 pm

well ... is unofficial ... me and my dog were the only witnesses ...
anyway , here , in my country , just ginni and myself are able to shoot over 300 meters ... the others archers are far behind in flight shooting ... or maybe are not interesed about that ...
I used :
my bow ... a wind traditional fighter 60#@28"

thumb ring :

t'ong-ah ... 90 cm

5 p'yon-jon
results :
p'yon-jon 70 cm : 320 m
p'yon-jon 64 cm (2 pieces) : 340 m
p'yon-jon 45 cm : 357 m
p'yon-jon 29 cm : 397 m

ps : and ... my asistent and observer :

ask him about that ....

Jos?Dom · Post by **Jos?Dom** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:15 pm

Ha-ha! No, I don't dare to ask your dog! Good pictures.

Thanks for the info.

Names of arrow guides

Here is my Tong-ah, made per Thomas' directions