archery primitive
A one foot joint Arrow
I am attaching two photos:
One of them is the shaft of an arrow that shows a short segment just because I used a scanner to capture the fine details of the tip of the body length of the arrow.
Today, I just imagined the end of the shaft of the arrow was created with some type of end device or primitive mill router, type of equipment in stock square. When the arrow is created there was nothing like the "modern router.
To see the image of this axis-end, go to:
~ www.navi.net/ rsc/images/shaft01.jpg
and
~ www.navi.net/ rsc/images/foot01.jpg
The images are of the two pieces of a decrepit old arrow that was also removed in order analyze the 'joint'.
The standing image "shows a slightly rough and broken remnants of a hardwood dark brown (species undetermined), whose 'splines' hole within a thread-wide and perfectly fused with the shaft.
Several signs seem to suggest that the axis of arrow on the body is milled through a rotating blade, but since it was made in around 1930, was probably not what we would call the "router" typical "Working the router. Most likely is a deepening of the press using a little at the end of grinding, in conjunction with a template that allows the action to be transferred to the cutting blade and gradually move away from the cutting blade.
Similarly, the foot "or hardwood probably tip was cut into square stock with "vee pieces scam with a very fine saw. Series "Crossroads" at an angle that correspond to the profile sheet used in the shaft.
I can only assume that the final fusion of these two pieces was secured with hide-tail and the composite article that has been established then, in a lathe to rounding.
I am not at all certain about any of these speculations, but can not find anything that talks about this type of arrow in the Internet.
My grandfather was an avid archer. Reached many cups in the field. He was a world champion on board (466 feet) and is quoted by Time magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0, 9171,748612,00. html
He was a neurosurgeon and physician, and inventor. However, I am not quite sure about their role in the development of this "pie" an arrow. I would not be very surprised if he did.
I am aware of putting a tree in a sort of joint hardwood that is simply a 'split', but the merger I am looking and trying to demonstrate that here seems to show a more sophisticated type of wood-work.
I'm trying to find out what roots of this method were.
What is perhaps equally perplexing about this is, in the vastness of the Internet called, that finding relevant references to this art yet recovered, and despite the claims of the search engines of hundreds of thousands of pages to answer your search terms, page after page is just a redundancy with some new facts.
I'm hoping people with some first-hand experience with this art might read this and contact me with some ideas derived from firsthand experience or real historical knowledge.
I am currently trying to rebuild as an arrow derivatively.
I'll post other examples of arrows and bows built by my grandfather or his peers in the near future.
Those interested can contact me at:
rsc@navi.net
Roger Scott Cathey,
Portland, Oregon
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