I have purchased a hand crafted long bow and hammer forged knife with custom scabbard from Zaki. He’s a master craftsman and has definitely preserved ancient skills that were once essential to human survival. Exceptional quality, brother! Phenomenal talent!

Love the sound of the last arrow! Nice job sir.

You make the best how-to videos of any I have seen.

Beautiful arrows!

That is the most Awesome cat that I have ever seen.

Woa!!! I "make arrows" but this is next level. Very inspiring!!!

if you begin to straighten your shafts as they dry by the time they are dry they will need almost no heat straightening. if you use "arrow wood" ( viburnum dentatum, also called nannyberry) you will have to leave the bark on while they dry otherwise they will split. but red willow and wild cherry can be debarked right after you cut them. each day unbundle the shafts and begin to bend out the crooks. for the first week or so they will not respond to the straightening but by week two they will. after about a month (or even less depending on how warm the room is ) the shafts should be perfectly straight.

Cool stuff!

Nice arrows 👌

fine craftsmanship

Great arrows!! Exelent job!!!👏👏👏🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🥇

Those arrows look like they pack a wallop.

GREAT VID and HANDSOME KITTY!

More arrows too beautiful to shoot. What is the wood you use for the shafts?

Bravo!

beautifull love it

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western plains arrows were always barrel shafted. and they always had a bulbous nock. they would use the thicker end of the shaft (the end closer to the ground) and trimmed down the shaft from that end creating a barrel shaft and the bulbous nock. the reason for the bulbous nock was for the various "pinch" grips western plains indians used. the barreled shaft is aerodynamically superior . i have restored old western plains indian arrows (Sioux) and they were all barrel shafted with bulbous nocks.

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Reason I'm asking I just made a 48-in deer ride back Osage the short bow. It's about 60 lbs at 20 in.

Curious to know why you heated and quenched. Wasn't the blade already hard? Or did you think it lost its temper after cutting?

You should try shooting with a pinch grip. That’s how many First Nations shot their bows. Plus many arrows will have a bit of a ledge carved in near where the arrow knock is for the pinch grip. Great arrow!

Cool!

Hello bro, great and beautiful work, greetings from Ghana , 🇬🇭, what is the length of the hazel shafts? And length of the feathers?

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Wooooooow!!!!. Can you say , what's wood on arrows?? Very nice arrows..

Do you use Krazy glue to glue your arrow heads together I strongly recommend do not doing it because it has a tendency to let loose in cold weather anything below

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Great video, what's the device you're using to reshape the wood for the arrow?

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Interesting design..what nation of American Indian are these from??? Do they do well on a 40 yard shot??

Warum ein neues Sägeblatt zerschneiden für Pfeilspitzen ? Warum die Spitzen härten wenn das Sägeblatt bereits gehärtet ist ? Ansonsten schön gemacht ..

Perfeito ..

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When will you go hunting with this ?

How heavy is your bow? How many grains are the arrows?

I hate to $hit on anyone's style... But those fletching don't make alot of sense, it will only create unecessary drag and noise. And if you consider hunting both are bad. The tips are too long and too narrow. And there is too little contact with the shaft, you should place it deeper in the shaft and make them more wide and short, if you streach the arrow shaft in a straight line you would see is wider than that tip. The point of making a tip for hunting is to make a larger hole so the rest of the arrow go in easily without too much friction. Also the wider the tip the more chances you have to cut or hit some vital organ and kill the animal faster. I mean the only reason you would put such tips on the arrow is to kill. Also when you use superglue, use a piece of paper and roll the arrow in that so you won't get superglue allover your fingers. The way i make blades is by using brass bullet arrow tips, i cut with a fine hacksaw a split in the tip. But this part is very delicate and there are chances you will ruin the tip because you have to make a precise cut, otherwise the blade will not be centered and the arrow won't fly straight. Then i use the back of old cutter blades, the section wich has no scored lines to break. I cut a triangle out of that and solder it to the tip. I test it and it even goes through a particle board without breaking. As for fletchings, the aerodinamics of parabolic or shield style are the best. Shield style is better for long bows for example because it creates a little bit more drag and stabilize the arrow faster but will also slow it down faster. The parabolic design is better if you have a centered riser and a well tuned bow and arrows. It will make the arrow fast If you ask me, the only real art when it comes to bow and arrows, is not painting arrows or things like this, that is just gives them a character. Is how well you can tune your bow and arrows to shoot arrows as straight as possible, without wobble and unecessary drag. Because every wobble creates drag, every unecesary drag slows the arrow and by the time it reached it's target it has lost alot of energy. I've played alot with bows since i was a kid, and i learned that if you can, you should always build a centered riser or handle to the bow and evoid archer's paradox. This will allow you to shoot even weaker arrows in spine, and it will make your arrows fly faster and straight. You can do that with selfbows too, you just leave the handle section a little bit beefier, maybe you cannot achive a perfect centered arrow rest but still you will reduce the archer's paradox significantly. If you look on asians bows you would see most of their bows have a very thin handle. Most of asians bows come from nomads, nomads were the masters of bow and arrows. When it comes to a primitive bow their technology reached the apex of bows and arrows. The notorious long bow, compared to nomad bows is a joke. Turks wich also used that technology in making bows had the fastest bows in history and they also used very often parabolic fletchings style. Is hard when it comes to that primitive technology to invent something else, better than what our ancestors developed during hundreds of years.

Yep. The Indians got their power equipment out

A lot of intensity for one arrowhead....forge and oven a waste of time and resources.... you are not trying to pierce armor plating....WTH... the other processes were skillfully rendered however...!!

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