Compound Bows

I am attaching two images:

One is the shaft of an arrow that shows a short segment just because you use a scanner to capture the detail of the tip of the body length of the arrow.

Currently, I only imagined the end of the shaft of the arrow was made with some kind end mill primitive device or router type of equipment in stock squares. When this arrow is created, there was nothing like the modern router.

To view an image of the shaft-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 an old and decrepit arrow who have been displaced in order to analyze the "joint".

The "image walk 'shows a rough and a little rotted remnants of a hardwood dark brown (undetermined species), which' strips' tapered to less than one thread-range and perfectly fused with the shaft.

Several signs on the shaft seem to suggest that the arrow's body was prepared by a rotary cutter, but since it was in 1930 that probably was not what we call 'router' typical 'working router. Most likely a mock press end milling using a little in relation to a template that enabled people to be moved to the cutting blade and gradually move away from the cutting blade.

Similarly, the "foot" or a piece of wood probably cut square stock with chunks of vee with a very fine con-saw. They would cut 'crossroads' at angles that correspond to the profile sheet used in the shaft.

I can only assume that the end of the merger of these two pieces are secured with hide-cola and the whole composite article was then placed on a lathe to rounding.

I'm not entirely sure about any of these speculations, but can not find nothing that talks about this type of arrow in the Internet.

My grandfather was a keeper of Avid. He won many cups in the art. It was a world champion flight (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 entirely sure about his role in the development of this "base" of an arrow. I would not be very surprised if he did.

I am conscious of putting a tree in a sort of joint hardwood, which is simply a 'split', but the merger I am looking at and trying to show here seems to show a more sophisticated type of wood working.

I trying to figure out what the roots of this method were.

What is perhaps equally perplexing about this is, in the vastness of the Internet called, that the to find relevant references to this art has not yet recovered, and despite the claims of the search engines of hundreds of thousands of pages of meeting the terms of search page after page with just a few new facts redundancy.

I hope that people with some first hand experience with this art will to read this and perhaps contact me with some ideas from first hand experience or real historical knowledge.

I am currently trying to rebuild An arrow such protocols.

I'll post other examples of arrows and bows built by my grandfather or their peers in the near future.

The Interested parties can contact me at:

rsc@navi.net

Roger Scott Cathey,

Portland, Oregon

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