Southeastern two-fletch

[tailfeather]

#4365

Finished it up last night. Have 5 or so more prim arrows to assemble and get ready for fall. Switchcane arrow shaft, sparkleberry foreshaft, point is knapped from flint I gathered from the Little River near here. Sealed her up with bear grease.

The point is ugly (I’m not much of a knapper), but as evidenced by the slice on my leg, sharp as all hell.

[Ralph]

#30001

That’s nice. Glad to see that others create points like mine. Good to know I’m not unique.:wink:

I like the two fletch. I like the cane shafts too.

Of the multitude of points we have found over the years, in western Co. and here in the Texas Panhandle, it was obvious that many, many of them were built to be functional and not works of art.

[Ptaylor]

#30038

That’s a pretty arrow, tailfeather. Wish I had some access to that river cane. I have some family in NC and harvested some years ago, it was really fun to work with. Straight and strong.

[tailfeather]

#30068

R2 that wicked little point of yours will do the job, I bet. Even if it does look like mine.:P You’re right though, in that function and a sharp edge is more important than pretty flake scars. As long as I can get a sharp and serviceable head, I’m happy. It takes me longer to make the arrow than the point, anyway.

What kind of wood is that?

[Ralph]

#30073

That’s a cedar shaft that I put together many moons ago before I figured out there was a whole lot less work to “functional” shafts as opposed to “pretty” ones.

Looks better tho, functional point on pretty shaft.

[Ben M.]

#30134

I wish that cane grew around here. I’d like to give it a try, too. What do you do about spine weight? Do you check each shaft or just whip ’em up and hope for the best?

[tailfeather]

#30158

I built a rough spine tester (from two nails, string, and a gatorade bottle :D), but I can get a pretty good idea by the diameter of the cane and its flexibility in hand compared with cane arrows that I know shoot well. It seems pretty forgiving.

You have to heat straighten the cane, but once you get it straight it stays that way and is really tough as nails.

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