It's been a long time since I had an order for Nydam replica arrows, so this makes a nice change! Here are some pics of the starting...

Met a lovely bloke and one of my previous customers yesterday, who had some nice English yew for me. Halfway through splitting the...

27" pine shafts spined for a 52lb bow Tapered buffalo horn inserts Long low red and black fletchings bound with red silk Hand forged...

I have to admit it's going to be hard letting these ones go! This is a set of heavy hunting arrows for a 160lb bow. 32" hand planed...

Six 1/2" T15s rough forged. These are going on a very nice set of hunting arrows for a guy in America.

First testing of the water retted hemp fibres. Just a few lengths picked at random, twisted and waxed with no glue or resin. 2.5mm thick...

The stalks were retted in water for 9 days, until the fibres were ready to slip off the inner core. The base of the stalks are then...

Doing some more work with wrought iron today. Some of it is puddled iron, and some is charcoal rolled. The first two heads are initial...

My ongoing search for hemp fibre with which to make traditional bowstrings has had some progress. I've found a hemp farm which is...

The finished 1/2" Jessop's H3 heads for Tod at Tod's Workshop. They will be accompanying one of Tod's trademark beautiful crossbows, and...

The heads for Tod of Tod's Stuff rough ground now, and all within 1g of the weight specified (35g). They now need quenching and...

5 Mary Rose replicas (MR82A1757/93): 30.5" Aspen (P. tremula) shafts tapered from 1/2" to 9mm Dark ox horn inserts tapered and glued with...

This is a very special set, for a guy (Rob) in memory of his daughter Willow. Three willow shafts, with a heavy taper to keep the weight...

Birch, willow and lime shafts planed, tapered, fitted with horn and coated with verdigris compound ready for fletchings.

1/2" waxed lime (linden) shafts tapered to just under 9mm Long low fletchings bound with silk 2" Buffalo horn inserts, tapered and glued...

I've had a lot of orders for arrows with Type 16 heads recently, so I figured I'd get them all forged in one go today. It's also a...

Another set of arrows for the lovely Mick Grewcock. 31" ash shafts Tapered buffalo horn nock inserts Long low turkey fletchings bound...

Two 3/8" fire-welded Type 16s, one 1/2" fire-welded Type 16 and one 1/2" brazed M2

Playing around with more wrought iron today. Here's a 1/2" MoL Type 9, and a copy of one of the most beautiful fire-welded Type 16s,...