Decorated with arrows made of bamboo ...

jchocz · Post by **jchocz** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:53 pm

Bamboo is my love. Longer time to make my arrows of bamboo, and I introduce them.

Buy bamboo in China (supplier of Tiger). I make arrows for himself, his sons and friends (for bows from 45 lb to 70 lb). I have bows Hwarang and Kaya - 45 lb, 50 lb, 55 lb and 70 lb). Korean bows are beautiful.

Friends say that I have a bamboo perversion ....

Length 31 ", tip 65 grain, feathers 4", 5 ". They have no historical model. They are simply bamboo arrows for target shooting.

Orda Khan · Post by **Orda Khan** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:43 pm

...And very nice indeed.

cristian_iepure · Post by **cristian_iepure** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:32 am

Very nice arrows indeed. Making this arrows you used the self nock or wooden glued nock?

jchocz · Post by **jchocz** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 3:32 pm

cristian_iepure wrote:Very nice arrows indeed. Making this arrows you used the self nock or wooden glued nock?

Nocks are ground right on the stick. Grip is stronger. The other arrows do i type "bakam" nocks.

cristian_iepure · Post by **cristian_iepure** » Mon Sep 27, 2010 6:11 pm

In my area it's hard to find bamboo thick enough to grind the nock for an arrow that will be shot from a bow heavier than 60#@28", so for now I use the wooden nocks inserted and glued to the shafts.

Your arrow are very beautiful, but I'll stick to the classic style (bamboo, wooden nock and barred feathers) till I'll really learn to shoot the hwarang bow I own.

jchocz · Post by **jchocz** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:29 pm

cristian_iepure wrote:In my area it's hard to find bamboo thick enough to grind the nock for an arrow that will be shot from a bow heavier than 60#@28", so for now I use the wooden nocks inserted and glued to the shafts.

Honed nocks are resistant to strong bows. These are the arrows for the bow Hwarang 70lb.

Wooden nocks are unnecessarily complicated to manufacture. Historically it is a more accurate ...

daryush · Post by **daryush** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:43 pm

Sorry, what are honed nocks? ...

Orda Khan · Post by **Orda Khan** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:09 pm

Self nocks.

Dusan · Post by **Dusan** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:53 pm

Maybe here i can show mi bamboo arrows. Cause i was invitated to the 3D ,first Puta and Korean target shooting in Slovakia i must make (again for about 2 years i dont make any arrows - only reparation old ...) some "better" looking arrows-especialy for mi Korean hornbow (like i call him - "KIM"

) .
Than i selected best bamboo shafts from garden shop, stratten , selected to target shooting heavier shafts (20-25 grams), longer distance shafts (12-15 grams) , sinew binded, skin glue glued nock wooden inserts (like chosean era...) , sinew was binding around nock vith birch bark , and oposite side vith Cherry bark (in target arrows) . Lihgter arrows was slightly barreled and endid vith small iron or bone points, vith brass pad.(thats was Korean/Turkish stile cross)
Target arrows was in the end about 28-32 grams, "flight" arrows was from 15 -25 grams(selected in groups) .
I was very surprise , that arrows vith his bark binding was very strong and dont crash.

target arrows have Kormoran and hawk feathers. Lighter arrows - pheasan feathers.

Jos?Dom · Post by **Jos?Dom** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:16 pm

Nice fletchings, Dusan.

Dusan · Post by **Dusan** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 5:38 pm

Thanks Jos? .More work was vith flight/puta bakkam arrows fletching .

again vith cherry bark

but this is not bamboo , but old(50years dry very light spruce) - 18 -22 grams.

mikekeswick · Post by **mikekeswick** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:09 am

Nice arrows Dusan, please could you elaborate on how you used the cherry bark. I can see it is obviously used as a wrap but how did you stick it down? How thin do you make it? Will it last going into and being pulled back out of targets?

Dusan · Post by **Dusan** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 8:28 am

All this arrows in pic was about 100 x shooting and pulled from target vitout any bark damage.
Bring cherry bark and scrap from both sides vith good metal /or glass scraper.Bark was in the end about 1 mm thick. Than very carefull glued vith natural skin glue- thats all.Chery bark is very hard durable material !

Ashbow · Post by **Ashbow** » Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:38 pm

The area just behind the point on the Tibetan wooden target arrows is reinfroced with an ingeniuos device consisting of a cherry? bark 'tube', the bark apparently have to be taken from a twig of a similar diameter that the arrow itself.
This bark appears to very durable.

cristian_iepure · Post by **cristian_iepure** » Sat Dec 04, 2010 3:00 am

I also saw a picture of some korean willow-leaf arrows that had a little wooden tube fixed on the tip side of the shaft.