EEEEC: Emrys Grenelef’s Arrows and Quiver
This is an entry for Exploration and Preparation.
I had a dozen arrow shafts and a dozen combat blunt tips that I wanted to make into combat archery arrows but the arrows shafts were 11/32″ rather than 5/16″ and I was unable to use them for that purpose.
I then talked to some friends and acquired all the bits and pieces I needed to make 12 x 4-fletch combat arrows and 9 x 3-fletch target arrows, including the use of a fletching jig along with a couple of instructions on how to do so.
After attaching all the knocks to the arrow shafts, I then tweaked the fletching jig until it was set-up correctly and spent a couple of nights attaching 48 fletches in between doing other things. Next was taping the shafts with filament-tape attaching the blunt tips and taping the tips and flights.
Just like that, I now had a set of combat arrows.
I then repeated the process minus all the taping for my nine target arrows.
Now that I had made my first set of arrows, I decided that I would like a new quiver for them. I had picked up a nice looking quiver at the market made by Sir Callum and I used this design as the basis for my quiver.
I grabbed some leather and cut it into the desired shapes then stitched it together using saddle stitch, whip stitch and cross stitch.
I now have a new quiver and set of target arrows and an old quiver for my new combat arrows.
