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Booner · 01-29-2010, 01:40 PM

125 grains of unleashed BHT fury!!!

Booner · 02-25-2010, 08:11 PM

I figured out my blade has a little bow to it. Any of you homegrown guys know how to get it out?

WABOWMAN · 02-26-2010, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Booner

Check it....

1.Booner,i know were that blade came from!

2.That ring looks like one of those duck band rings?

raghorn · 02-26-2010, 04:39 PM

Let's assume you're going to do a tie-on for the first effort, much easier. Later you can try adding a ferrule.

Draw your bhd shape on the blade. Score the line with a cutting wheel in a dremel. Then place in a vise with line along the top edge of the vise and smack the metal stick up with a hammer, then reverse smack it. The metal should break close to the line.
You can also do this to get that big piece down to a mangable size.
Then heat the bhd to red hot and let it air cool. This should draw the temper so the metal can be further shaped and the edge ground. Finish the shaping on a grinder or hand filing. When it's to the point you are happy with then it can be hardened if you want or just use as is. Do we need to cover "how to slot a Carbon shaft" Ha!

Booner · 02-28-2010, 10:41 PM

I want to try and make a ferrule out of a practice tip like Old Rancid Crabtree/Archer/Ron...hahaha. I just need to either have him make me a jig or get someone here to do it. Yes, Wabow, it is a duck band ring. Instead of the registration # on it, it has my date of marriage. Where do you think I got that blade? hehehe

raghorn · 03-01-2010, 01:29 PM

Get a block of metal and drill the correct size hole for your field point. Then cut a shallow slot centered on the hole, this is your guide for the hack saw. Or you can use hardwood.

Big Boar · 03-01-2010, 03:07 PM

I agree with Raghorn but think you will find it easier to use two pieces instead of one.

Clamp them together and space them apart by the width of a saw blade. When I made the original tool that Archer used, I just took an old saw blade, ground off the set of the teeth so the blade was all the same thickness, and broke off some pieces. Once it was clamped I drilled the hole at the parting line. This is easier than trying to saw a slot in the tool dead centered. I drilled the hole to a depth that allowed the field point to be installed to a set depth and not all the way through.

After the two pieces are drilled you will need to space the bottom apart using the saw blades glued or taped to one half of the tool. Make sure there is just enough space to allow a new fine toothed blade (like 32 teeth per inch) to fit between the two halves with field point installed. I then added a piece of tape to the inside of the drilled hole so the field point would clamped tightly.

I put the pieces of saw blade at the depth I wanted to cut to.

In the second picture you will see the tool half with the saw blade glued near the bottom. The field point is installed as far into the hole as it will go. The bottom saw blade (the one glued in) is at a position where I want the saw cut to stop. The top blade is shown as it would be if actually cutting the point. Just clamp this altogether withthe vice jaws positioned near the bottom over the glued in saw blade and use the saw to cut from the top in the space between the two halves.

I hope the pictures will help explain what I am trying to say.

raghorn · 03-01-2010, 03:46 PM

Very nice big boar!!!!
My description for the slotting jig was very basic and did not come from experiance, mostly I just cut them by eyeballing. When I did this type of ferrule it was done for one or two heads usually for display. If I was going to hunt with them I would have Boar build me a jig!

WABOWMAN · 03-02-2010, 08:10 AM

Booner,that blade is like the ones they used in the cedar mills out here in the west.I find them sometimes when hunting around old mill sites.
I love the duck band idea!

Booner · 03-02-2010, 11:18 PM

Tell yer wife......she may surprise you!!

02-26-2010, 04:39 PM	#19 (permalink)
raghorn 100gr Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Colorado Posts: 251	Let's assume you're going to do a tie-on for the first effort, much easier. Later you can try adding a ferrule. Draw your bhd shape on the blade. Score the line with a cutting wheel in a dremel. Then place in a vise with line along the top edge of the vise and smack the metal stick up with a hammer, then reverse smack it. The metal should break close to the line. You can also do this to get that big piece down to a mangable size. Then heat the bhd to red hot and let it air cool. This should draw the temper so the metal can be further shaped and the edge ground. Finish the shaping on a grinder or hand filing. When it's to the point you are happy with then it can be hardened if you want or just use as is. Do we need to cover "how to slot a Carbon shaft" Ha! __________________ Colorado Bowhunters Assc >>>-----> American Broadhead Collectors Club Colorado Traditional Archers Society >>>-----> Team FUGRWE

03-01-2010, 01:29 PM	#21 (permalink)
raghorn 100gr Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Colorado Posts: 251	Get a block of metal and drill the correct size hole for your field point. Then cut a shallow slot centered on the hole, this is your guide for the hack saw. Or you can use hardwood. __________________ Colorado Bowhunters Assc >>>-----> American Broadhead Collectors Club Colorado Traditional Archers Society >>>-----> Team FUGRWE

03-01-2010, 03:46 PM	#23 (permalink)
raghorn 100gr Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Colorado Posts: 251	Very nice big boar!!!! My description for the slotting jig was very basic and did not come from experiance, mostly I just cut them by eyeballing. When I did this type of ferrule it was done for one or two heads usually for display. If I was going to hunt with them I would have Boar build me a jig! __________________ Colorado Bowhunters Assc >>>-----> American Broadhead Collectors Club Colorado Traditional Archers Society >>>-----> Team FUGRWE

03-02-2010, 08:10 AM	#24 (permalink)
WABOWMAN 130gr Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: port townsend,WA Posts: 504	Booner,that blade is like the ones they used in the cedar mills out here in the west.I find them sometimes when hunting around old mill sites. I love the duck band idea! __________________ Athens Field staff TRU-ball staff Vapor trail pro staff Broadheadshed staff Owner MAY'S CUSTOM ARCHERY ATHENS APROVED DEALER

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01-29-2010, 01:40 PM	#16 (permalink)
Booner Administrator Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Arkansas USA Posts: 952	125 grains of unleashed BHT fury!!!

02-25-2010, 08:11 PM	#17 (permalink)
Booner Administrator Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Arkansas USA Posts: 952	I figured out my blade has a little bow to it. Any of you homegrown guys know how to get it out?

02-28-2010, 10:41 PM	#20 (permalink)
Booner Administrator Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Arkansas USA Posts: 952	I want to try and make a ferrule out of a practice tip like Old Rancid Crabtree/Archer/Ron...hahaha. I just need to either have him make me a jig or get someone here to do it. Yes, Wabow, it is a duck band ring. Instead of the registration # on it, it has my date of marriage. Where do you think I got that blade? hehehe

03-02-2010, 11:18 PM	#25 (permalink)
Booner Administrator Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Arkansas USA Posts: 952	Tell yer wife......she may surprise you!!