My latest Homemade Longbow

[Rancid Crabtree]

I then began to focus on the arrows for Josh's new bow. I bought Gold Tip Traditionals because of the wood grain look.



After capping the back 9 inches of the shafts with white lacquer, I started cresting the shafts using a color scheme that resembles the riser. I will write Josh's name on all the shafts.





The fletching will be 4 1/2 inch long LW barred turkey feathers. Since nobody sells 4 1/2 feathers, I bought 5 inch parabolic cut and converted them to 4 1/2 shield cut.



Now the fletching begins.



One down, 11 more to go.



While waiting for the fletches to dry, I made the rug rest and strike plate for the bow.

For the strike plate, I used 2-3 Oz. leather and for the rug, I used the fuzzy side of some adhesive backed Velcro strip I had laying around.



The leather was from some scrap I had so I needed to add some double sided tape to make it stay on the riser.