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Bind Fury
I have been known to make arrows suitable for Viking Age and Medieval re-enactors when they put away the swords and axes and bring forth the bow. Below are some ramen shaft arrows and options. Beginning with: Fletching White feathers are the standard and red is pretty easy to come by. At times I also have black, and other colours, but unless you want to order a couple of dozen arrows, I currently have to go with what's easily available. Very rarely I have grey flights. Primaries and Secondaries. A cut my flights form full length feathers and the best part of the feather is at the front. Sometimes this leaves enough of the feather to make a second, slightly lesser quality flight. These Secondaries are cheaper, but not always available.
Bayeux
Three flight feathers cut as an interpretation of the arrows on the Bayeux Tapestry and bound with an olive green linen thread. Also seen on a manuscript image of the Martydom of St Edmund (?). Better reference posted when I relocate it. It's in Hardy's "Warbow" if you have it.
These are Bayeux arrows bound with black linen and have plastic nocks. I am not at present producing arrows with plastic nocks.
Three flight arrows based on many medieval images, not least that in the Schilling Chronicle. Bound with brown linen thread.
Three flight arrows with a shape taken from the Osprey Warrior Series No.11 "English Longbowman 1330-1515" and mainly 'cause I like the look of them. They appear as fletches for a crossbow, from a 15thC(? not 100% certain of the date but the clothes would indicate as such) manuscript that depicts the Martyrdom of St. Sebastion. Bound with mustard coloured linen thread.
Parabolics I can also do arrows in your basic, bog-standard 5" parabolics. They are cheaper but as they don't look like the rounded arrows of history, I don't like doing them much. They come in a range of colours and also are available in barred. If you want barred flights, I will have to check what's available. If you order three dozen (assuming that you want all three flights done in the same binding) I will get whatever you want. Bindings All arrows come bound with linen thread. The colours available are white, off-white, dusty red, brown, olive (a kind of browny-green) and black. If you don't want bound arrows, I suggest you might try buying arrows from your local archery shop. Heads Modern target points are standard, but I can at times acquire forged heads. There is a wait on such items. You can alternatively send me your own heads for mounting. Coming soon: Paris Bodkins Looks pretty real, but aren't. They look at first glance, like socketed bodkins but they aren't real forged heads.
Custom Sometimes, people like to be difficult. These are some custom arrows.
This War Arrow has red flights has two different coloured bindings. In this case it is off white and black linen. Note: I have no evidence of this being used in history but is available if you want to make you arrows stand out from the crowd. Specify your preferred different colours (or the same if you wanted to be weird).
Peacock Tail Feathers
Ascham tells us that for 'gayness' some archers had peacock feathers on their arrows. This was a very early experiment. I wanted to cut the long trailing feathers away but was asked not too. I suppose they make expensive flu-flu's.
Hedeby Arrows
These arrows were made for a child (hence the short appearance) and feature tanged Type A heads, bound with copper wire near the heads and tapered to the flared nocks and linen bound grey, goose-feather flights.
The flights here are shown before their final smoothing and trim.
Should you wish to purchase one of these items, email me on spear@NOSPAMbigpond.net.au removing the NOSPAM section of the address line. |
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