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Will
Jul 25, 20221 min read
What an insane weekend!
Arrows Vs Armour II has wrapped, and it's gonna be a little while until the release but trust me, it's worth waiting for! Stuff happened...
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Will
Jul 23, 20221 min read
Here we go!
It's all kicking off now. We've got arrows, armour, archers, armourers, crew, targets... and a Knight!
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Will
Jul 20, 20221 min read
Final push!
The final push of arrows before filming Arrows Vs Armour II very very soon! There's a whole bunch of different heads, different arrow...
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Will
Jul 11, 20221 min read
The latest film with Tod
Another film, leading up to the Arrows Vs Armour II film. This one is much more in depth on the Type 9s I'm forging for the project.
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Will
Jul 11, 20221 min read
Forging out big 1/2" Type 13 heads
These are for Tod's Workshop crossbow bolts.
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Will
Jun 30, 20221 min read
And here they are, all done!
Twelve Museum of London Type 9 bodkins, hand forged in a mix of charcoal and steam coal with bellows from a billet of thousands of...
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Will
Jun 29, 20221 min read
First test of the billet
First test of the billet provided for Arrows Vs Armour 2 by Owen Bush. Thousands of layers of bloomery iron and steel in here, for our...
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Will
Jun 14, 20221 min read
I don't often get excited about bits of metal...
But this is a bit special. This is a bar of thousands of laminations of bloomery iron and steel, handmade for the Arrows vs Armour...
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Will
Jun 9, 20221 min read
Set of arrows for David in the USA
6 x 12mm to 9mm hand planed Poplar arrows, with verdigris compound and Type 10 bodkins 6 x 12mm to 9mm hand planed Poplar arrows with red...
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Will
May 27, 20221 min read
Fun little film...
This was fun to shoot, and there's a lot more coming!
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Will
May 11, 20221 min read
Almost every type of medieval head!
Almost every type of late medieval head in this lot! 4 x 1/2" Type 7 needle bodkins 4 x 1/2" Type 9 crossbow bolt heads 2 x 1/2" Type 14...
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Will
Apr 17, 20221 min read
The Big One!
Here they are folks! The first 16 of a huge set of arrows ready for filming more experimental archaeology tests with the brilliant...
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Will
Apr 4, 20221 min read
Lots of iron!
I haven't been able to upload much recently, as I've been up to my eyeballs on a huge secret project (can't say what until some time next...
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Will
Mar 18, 20221 min read
Sheath making
Finally got round to making up some sheathes for a few of the knives I finished years ago! They're all either carbon steel, or carbon...
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Will
Feb 23, 20221 min read
Full Feature in Country Life Magazine
Very pleased with this lovely article in this week's Country Life Magazine. A good advertisement for the Heritage Crafts Association, ...
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Will
Feb 15, 20221 min read
Nine heavy late medieval military arrows
All finished up and ready for an exciting TV production which should begin shooting in a few weeks time! 1/2" Ash shafts for a 140lb bow...
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Will
Feb 11, 20221 min read
Finished heads for the next Tod's Workshop project!
All 1/2", we've got Type 7 needle bodkins, Type 9 heavy bodkins and Type 16 barbed heads.
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Will
Feb 2, 20221 min read
Love the colour combination on this set of BIG 160lb military arrows going out to Timo.
• 1/2" lime shafts tapered down to 11/32" • Tapered horn inserts • Long brown fletchings bound with red silk into verdigris • Hand forged...
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Will
Jan 20, 20221 min read
A really nice example of how medieval bowyers and fletchers may have worked together.
Joe Gibbs from Hillbilly Bows used the tips of these cow horns for a bunch of Mary Rose replica bows, and the bottom sections of the...
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