How To Make Bamboo Arrows with Antler Nocks

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11 ай бұрын

Detailed arrow building tutorial. Plus, how to make antler nocks for bamboo arrow shafts.
Music by my awesome cousin Marcos Topolanski Quintero. You can find more of his work on iTunes and Spotify.
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@Gauchooriental 11 ай бұрын

Dan makes it look so easy…..and given the actual price of arrows this is a needed skill!!!

@EricaSwallow 11 ай бұрын

Hahaha, I thought Wimbledon had your attention!! Ya beat me!!

@stephenballard3759 24 күн бұрын

Dan, it's ADDeviant_again. Great work as always! If I may add...... I always "foot" the front end of bamboo arrows with a little length of dowel to reinforce them. I also mark the shafts that need to be reduced at the tip ends with pecil or market and scrape that off with a sharp scarper or knife blade to keep the reduction even and the shaft round. Great work on the antler knocks.

@DanSantanaBows 24 күн бұрын

Great tips, thanks!

@ThirdLawPair 11 ай бұрын

I would love to see a video on working with ironwood specifically. In the video about your favorite woods, you had a brief clip of an ironwood bow which was the most beautiful bow I've ever seen.

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

I do have a video tillering an ironwood bow. Also check out the handle wrap tutorial for more of that bow. I work ironwood pretty much identically to hickory or like any other top tier whitewood. The only thing that’s really different is the texture on the back

@ThirdLawPair 11 ай бұрын

@@DanSantanaBowsI'll have to check those videos out. Your description in the wood video of the challenge of working with ironwood made it sound interesting and unique.

@johncuthbertson2565 11 ай бұрын

I made two sets of 12 myself, got the shafts from homebargains had to size and weigh them into sets .. a lot of wastage but so cheap anyway, getting them strait was fun 🙄. Came out a lot better than I expected. I did forget to burn a hole through all the sections to balance out the internal pressures but that's not proved detrimental as some have taken heavy impacts and not shattered 🙂. They fly strait and look awesome 👍

@PNWWoodcraft 11 ай бұрын

Hey Dan, I was really inspired by your videos and decided to start my own channel!

@glenn_r_frank_author 11 ай бұрын

I've not tried to make my own arrows yet but thanks for the inspiration. I am working on my fourth self / board bow and it is coming along nicely. First one worked but was under weight from what I wanted... second broke in tillering when I got a bit hasty... third worked and I shot a few hundred shots through it before a flaw I had noticed in the grain.. where it twisted eventually gave way. This one seems to have nice straight grain all the way and I am hoping it will be the best of my efforts so far.

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

If you ain’t breakin ya ain’t makin!

@MrRourk Ай бұрын

I might suggest starting with a kit of bare carbons first. Then work up to wood and bamboo. You will want to have a spine tester to help with selection.

@DanSantanaBows Ай бұрын

@MrRourk I’m not comfortable recommending shooting carbons of of bare knuckles to a mass audience. That’s a fine personal risk but I don’t wanna be responsible for a kid following that advice and messing their hand up. There’s no need for a spine tester in primitive archery. It’s really not hard to learn to tell if you have a mismatched arrow without formally testing the spine. Watch ryan gil make perfect groups with completely mis spined arrows

@philolori3385 11 ай бұрын

That's amazing!

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@EricaSwallow 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful arrows, and nice shootin’!

@EricaSwallow 11 ай бұрын

Question… where do you get your antlers?

@ThirdLawPair 11 ай бұрын

@@EricaSwallowDeer probably

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

@@EricaSwallow These are white tail deer sheds. the males drop the antlers yearly. Shed hunting is a common hobby out here during the right season. I also get antlers on ebay and most of these are sheds too

@Ebn.Muhamed 5 ай бұрын

Bro you are awesome

@simonlauber9014 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful stuff Dan! I still have some antler and some horn aswell as some shafts... I'll give it a whirl as soon as university quietens down, thanks for the inspiration!

@HBomb1 11 ай бұрын

Yo im early. I have plenty of bamboo around my house so im going to make some of these.

@ags4058 8 ай бұрын

🎉❤❤i like it.. thank you Bro

@philolori3385 11 ай бұрын

Your video alone is a work of art! Just like your handicrafts! I would like to do that too!

@samsien9105 9 ай бұрын

Yes sir . Bamboo is better than wood as an arrows .

@carsonc9006 11 ай бұрын

Awesome stuff Dan! I was wondering if you could make a lengthy video I've making native American bows like Cherokee bows if you could it would be awesome!

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

Great suggestion!

@anthonylacorte5811 11 ай бұрын

Try grabbing the last hairs on the tip of the feather and pull apart you can get them peeled off perfectly and won’t have to scrape the pithy bit off the back side. Im going to have to try the antler knocks! I’ve always cut my knocks right into the back of my (river cane) shafts after filling the hole and then sinew wrap below the knock.. I don’t think your silk wrap would keep it from splitting out though… fantastic video as usual. Your cousin’s music pairs great with the videos and inspires creativity

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

That hasn’t worked for me with these particular feathers. I always try peeling first but it consistently ruins these. The silk is stronger than it looks too. Nothing like sinew but it still offers a decent amount of protection.

@arastoo.202 11 ай бұрын

👌🌟🎖️🔥💥

@tristantheafflicted 11 ай бұрын

I might need to take some queues from this process, since I got some new bamboo arrows and the self nocks are very loose. They have goat horns at the supermarket near me...

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

Please disregard. The comment below was from a spam account and not myself.

@BubuH-cq6km 11 ай бұрын

😎 👍🏼

@johnhalverson2849 11 ай бұрын

Those are some fancy field points/piles. Where do you find those?

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

They’re just cheap generic ones from ebay. I buy them in bulk but the seller varies

@gamefactory6227 10 ай бұрын

So nice video can you show how to make the quiver all so

@t-pose4990 11 ай бұрын

Can you do a video making a bow with bamboo, i live in asia and i have no idea what kind of wood to use

@matthewyu3531 10 ай бұрын

Very nice arrows! Would you kindly tell me what is the diameter of your bamboo arrows? Thank you.

@DanSantanaBows 10 ай бұрын

They vary a bit since I focused on equal masses of 500 grains instead. The arrow heads are 5/16”

@desmondculp5285 11 ай бұрын

Do you sell your products? I would pay top dollar to get my hands on some handmade bows

@DanSantanaBows 10 ай бұрын

Yes but I’m cutting back on selling so I can do more teaching. I’ll still take on a few projects at a time though

@akumatzy8876 10 ай бұрын

Could you make a bamboo bow next? :)

@jillatherton4660 11 ай бұрын

😄👍

@martialisbestplaysminecraft 11 ай бұрын

What hatchet do you use?

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

gransfors carving axe

@martialisbestplaysminecraft 10 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@IdahoEagle77 Ай бұрын

Is the spacing between each fletching extremely important?

@DanSantanaBows Ай бұрын

Mostly aesthetic at close range. For long range it matters more but if your arrows spin much the effect cancels out

@hiells Ай бұрын

where do you get your silk wrap

@DanSantanaBows Ай бұрын

Zwicky brand

@hiells Ай бұрын

@@DanSantanaBows thanks also i would love to see you try traditional English longbow arrows

@TruthBeliever5557 4 ай бұрын

Could you make a video on how to straighten bamboo canes?

@DanSantanaBows 4 ай бұрын

I think ryan gil has a good one on straightening canes

@TruthBeliever5557 4 ай бұрын

@@DanSantanaBows thanks 😊 ❤️

@torstenlorenz5477 11 ай бұрын

If only it didn't take so long to get the funding for the whole tool together, I'd be there by now. dan, would you like to tell us if it is possible to cut a thread into the bamboo shafts? ... if I go there, I would like to use screw-on syringes

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

You don’t need a professional tool set up. You can do 80% of what you need with a set of rasps and files and a sharp knife.

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

I’m sure you could thread the bamboo but it wouldn’t last long. I’ve threaded a nut onto bamboo as used it as a blunt tip. Surprisingly effective

@torstenlorenz5477 11 ай бұрын

@@DanSantanaBows oh no, the one with the tool is such a chess... I liked to hurt myself with half-neatness... I'd rather do it right and in the meantime I'm realigning my garage ;) This surprises me now that bamboo is quite durable... what would be the reason why screw tips should not be able to last long?

@DanSantanaBows 11 ай бұрын

@@torstenlorenz5477 I think you mean the farriers rasp. I believe the one I have is by Nicholson

@torstenlorenz5477 11 ай бұрын

@@DanSantanaBows no, lol, I mean, I didn't have a decent tool... It slowly but steadily accumulates ;) but thanks for pointing this out... what is the reason for this decision regarding bamboo, its durability in connection with screw tips?