Bumped up, GW is getting close so get those two archer teams to gether and represent your Kingdom during the GET. If you have a team already please secure a...
Greeting all, I was wondering if anyone had any ideas or designs for an archery "backstop"; besides commercial archery netting. Something that you could set up...
pretty much anything like old blankets or even heavy sheets would work to some extent or other. Its getting them in enough quantity or size etc. to do the job...
Greetings Antonio, In the Barony of Ynys Fawr we have designed a portable takedown frame and use shadecloth and rope to provide the netting for catching...
Locally we had a fellow approach construction sites regarding their netting (used to keep tools and debris from falling on the sidewalks). Apparently once they...
One alternative that we have used locally for high powered crossbows are sheets of OSB particle board. OSB stands Oriented Strand Board and is like a really...
We have used cheap drop cloths from the building supply. It works fairly well, but the higher the poundage, the more likely the arrows will blow through. ...
Please post to the groups file section so others can peruse. YIS Terrance Of Granite Mountain Shire of Granite Mountain Kingdom of Atenveldt ... From: Nicholas...
Greetings unto the list. I'm looking to speak to some people who make their own arrows from wood they harvest themselves from trees, rather than working with ...
Greeting, If you can make it to Lilies War this year, I think they are having a class on making your own arrows from wood that has been harvested. This is, of...
No way I can make that. I'm in southern Ontario, Canada, and I don't get to as many events as I'd like, even locally. What kind of woods would people...
what material is best for modern sca legal crossbows / hand bows ? i want to start making my own but would like some input b4 paying for the wrong materials. ...
If it please My Lord, I can recommend none better than "The Traditional Bowyers Bible" series of books, which cover all aspects of the bowyers art. Though I...
I'd go with Brownell's B-50 or BCY B-500 (same material, different companies). If you have newer bows that are ok for high performance strings then you could...
I suggest you speak with Master Cunningham, Garvin the Slow, and Gladius the Alchemist. All are Foresters and are on the Greenwood list. Padraig On Tue Mar 2...
Greetings from southern Quebec. Locally you may find bushy plants like red osier" growing all about your area or something like it. It works great as a self...
Splitting works better than sawing for shafts. A split will follow the grain and give a more consistent shaft. Sawing can cut the grain at an angle which may...
In my basement, I use a plain movers blanket hung from the beams. As long as it hangs free, it will move to catch an arrow, even from a high pound bow (I...
All of my experiences to date with arrows have three feathers. But I was watching a video recently about making primitive bows and arrows with simple tools and...
I have seen 2,3,4 fletch the point of the fletch is to stabilize the arrow. the more fletch incress rotation at the cost of drag. so 2 flech will rotate less...
This is almost correct. Drag is controlled by the number, size, shape, and composition of the fletching and is a very complex formula. Rotation is controlled...
I had always believed that rotation was due to the angles of the feathers, too, but I seem to recall coming across something recently (I wish I could remember...
Yes, an arrow without fletching will develop a clockwise rotation on its own due to torque. Once fletching is added, however, this force is overcome by the...
I recently learned that yes, an arrow will have some rotation imperted on it based on your release. I will be doing some hight speed video as soon as I get the...
Carolus, You said the bare shaft will rotate clockwise. Is this just from a right hand bow or will a left hand one do the same? If they both rotate the...
it is a factor of torque and is not related to the handedness of the bow. To remember torque effects use the right hand rule. Curl the fingers of your right...
