Home-Made Arrow Points

 

 

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Broad Points
Mounted Plate broadhead 
Point drawn out on perferated plate 
Point traced out on steel flat stock.   
Point blades cut.   
Tang cut out.   
Blades sharpened.  Hammered and then filed,   
Flat Stock, Broadhead and mounted Broadhead.   
Broadhead set into a shaft.   

 

Bodkin Points
Bodkin 
Bodkin 
Round  
Bodkin
Squared off 		  
Bodkin
Pyramidal 		  
5/16 - 3/8" Steel Rod
Heat in Forge
1st Heat - begin squishing.  
2nd Heat - Moving back on shaft.  
Dimple with chisel.  
'Square up' sides.  
Begin to bend into long cone.  
Cone almost closed.  
Hot cut 1 to 1 1/2" above closed cone.  
Heat to Cherry-red plus.

Begin hammering point.		  
Another Heat! 

This maybe necessary 2 -3 times!		  
Finished Bodkin Point!  
A few more points.  

 

Making Points
Your Basic Teaspoon!
Gently flatten on Anvil  -  Can be heated if necessary!
Mark the 'blade' edges...  
Cut in lines with:
1] a Shears
2] a Chisel
3]  or a Hack saw		  
A 'basic' cut spoon Broadhead!