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  2. Arrow - Wikipedia

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    Traditional target arrow (top) and replica medieval arrow (bottom) Modern arrow with plastic fletchings and nock An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile launched by a bow.A typical arrow usually consists of a long, stiff, straight shaft with a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, multiple fin-like stabilizers called fletchings mounted near the rear, and ...

  3. Bowstring - Wikipedia

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    Widely used modern materials are stronger for their weight than any natural material, and most are unaffected by water. They include: Dacron (strength per strand = 22.5 kg (50 lb), stretch = 2.6%), a commonly used polyester material. Because of its durability and stretch, Dacron is commonly used on beginners' equipment, wooden bows, and older bows.

  4. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes, particularly in wooden bridge building the pegs were shaped by being driven through a hole in a heavy piece metal. Historically timbers meant to be seen in houses were smoothed with a hand plane ( Japanese plane including what is called a spear plane, yariganna or yari-kanna) and decorated with a chamfer or bead.

  5. Fletching - Wikipedia

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    An Investigation of Arrow Position as Affected by Fletching Number. Dissertation: B.S. Guilford College. Brotzman, Richard E., and Ol'e Buff (1995). Archery. Arrowsmithing. Abstract: Designed for the beginner interested in building their own wooden and reed arrows from bare shafting materials using both traditional and primitive methods.

  6. History of archery - Wikipedia

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    Longbowmen archers of the Middle Ages.. Archery, or the use of bow and arrows, was probably developed in Africa by the later Middle Stone Age (approx. 70,000 years ago). It is documented as part of warfare and hunting from the classical period (where it figures in the mythologies of many cultures) [1] until the end of the 19th century, when bow and arrows was made functionally obsolete by the ...

  7. Quiver - Wikipedia

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    Three quivers. A quiver is a container for holding arrows or bolts.It can be carried on an archer's body, the bow, or the ground, depending on the type of shooting and the archer's personal preference.

  8. Arrow cresting - Wikipedia

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    A cresting machine (also called an arrow-cresting machine, an arrow-crester, or simply a crester [1]) is a machine that aids in the adding of coloured lines called cresting to arrows in order to identify the fletcher. Cresting machines are small lathes that consist of a chuck and an engine attached to a board. [2]

  9. Broad arrow - Wikipedia

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    The broad arrow was used by the British to mark trees (one species of which was the eastern white pine) intended for ship building use in North America during colonial times. Three axe strikes, resembling an arrowhead and shaft, were marked on large mast -grade trees. [ 25 ]

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