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11-29-2012, 10:05 AM
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Bone points (arrowheads)
Been starting to work my own points out of deer bone (most of it more than a season old that the dogs have in the yard) in the evening when watching tv. Gives me something to do with my hands, and I haven't done this since I was a kid. Only tools I use are a pocket knife (scrapper), hacksaw (for rough blanks), and a bastard file. I let the bone tell me what shape it wants to take. I go slowly so that I don't get up alot of dust, work it over a towel to catch the dust I can, and if the bone has a odd smell at all to it it goes back out in the yard.
Still to do on these is... #1 Pine resin impregnation (from natural pine resin) to add strength and counter decay. #2 Cut string notches close to the base of the heads for mounting. #3 mount #4 final sharpen (most of these will already cut you if you aren't careful) Top item in the pic is a canvassing needle made from a spur that broke off. Still working on it. GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 
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12-08-2012, 03:51 PM
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Bone Points
Nice! I might have to give that a whirl sometime.
I was reading a book about Chief Plenty-Coups and was surprised when he said he never saw a (then) modern Indian using stone points.
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12-16-2012, 09:50 PM
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Waiting to see the finished points, looking good. Often thought about trying to make them out of antler material.
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12-21-2012, 11:08 AM
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Yep the holidays has cut into my point making process, but I will get back to it soon as we get through this Christmas.
bucktrack - Thanks! Iron trade points started becoming a HUGE factor in the traditional American Indian arrow VERY early on. popplecop - Thanks I will post more pics as soon as I get more work done (and hopefully better pics) You can make points out of antler, and it does very well from my understanding. Richard
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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