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After setting a goal of chipping out one hundred arrow heads before summer was out, I'm excited to see this sub forum start. My percusion and pressure improved by leaps and bounds. I found a couple...

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Sounds like a good project. I'd think about bundling them in groups of maybe a dozen or two dozen and wrapping or tying them together. Then straighten them all one at a time a couple times a week...

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I don't know if anyone else has ran into this problem but the last bunch (vibernum) i bundled ended up with big dents where the jute twine layed on the shafts. Not sure if that was due to it being too...

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Ouch! Yep, you have to protect green wood if you restrain it. I should have mentioned that, sorry. Ken

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Good going and a worthy project. I have not knapped get. Most of my homemade arrows are from the few suitable ash shoots I can gather together. Lots of mahogany planks in the house waiting to be cut...

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And here they are. One hundred and seven all together. Mostly red osier, with some other dogwood, vibernum, maple (good for kids arrows) and a few phragmites. I could go back and get a few thousand...

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Right on.

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