armory-rasa: biomechanicalfishhorror:armory-rasa: And now for something completely different: arro
armory-rasa: biomechanicalfishhorror: armory-rasa: And now for something completely different: arrow-making. The arrows I had were too modern for costume photography, so I looked up how to do DIY fletching and made some that were more photogenic. Legit construction technique, non-legit materials, so they’re not actually functional. These are cool, I just got out of archery so this is neat. I would love to make my own arrows some day. How long did this take …I’d rather not say. And call it a “learning experience.” XD I mean, part of it was that these were a photography prop that I was doing on a budget, so I was weighing the cost of my time less than the cost of my money. I bought a bunch of cheap 1/4″ pine dowels instead of actual arrow shafts, and then dyed/glossed them, which took time, and bought the cheapest packages of feathers I could find, turkey quills that were also pretty bleh until I cut them down to shape and dyed them, which also took time, and neither makes for functional arrows. The pinewood dowels would snap in half if I tried to put them under the stress of a bowstring. But now I know how to do it in theory, so in the event of the apocalypse, I am now marginally better-equipped to survive. Anyway, the site I learned it from was here, and that guy does actually make arrows that are intended to be functional, so if you don’t cheap out on materials like I did, you should be able to make your own shootable arrows. :) -- source link
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