MASONARY NAILS Pics added

[KILLER B]

Ohhh the learning is just about to begin well as soon as i get a new battery. And thanks for the best of wishes Brent.

[hormoan]

Your welcome!! Are we to expect pictures of the proposal also, now that you will have battery's?      

                      Brent

[KILLER B]

Alright sorry for the wait photo bucket was trying to make me do some jc penny whooplah about reinventing yourself heck thats why I put down the wheelie and made a bow from a stick like a real man.

Any way enough chest beating, here are some picks for ya guys and gals...
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That one is pretty bent sideways it was the first one i did didn't turn out as well as id thought.  After that one i knew i needed to try something different. So i went to get a Mapps gas torch to make em glow.

[KILLER B]

Sorry i didn't take any pictueres of the better ones after i started heating them. I got so exited i went straight to the bench grinder to shape em up.

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I made some different sizes and weight to see what will shoot good on my river cane arrows off my red oak board bow.

[KILLER B]

[KILLER B]

And here are a few of my finished arrows. one has a Knapped head that i made my first actualy. Its a hack job but I'm learning.


Hope to post more in the futurewith better explanations also the latest masonary heads have grooves filed into the sides so the sinew isn't on the cutting edge.

[rascal]

Wow pretty interesting, Im not that far along in the whole "build it myself" game but Im hoping to get that far one day.

[Jerry Jeffer]

Those are some pretty gnarly points. I'm sure they are hard, and will do a job on some unfortunate critter.

[hill boy]

What are ya stabbin with them things Killer?Did they sharpen up good?    Intresting indeed  :cool:

[KILLER B]

Ya know hill boy I havn't decided what I'm gonna shoot with them I might do some penetration tests with a few other broad heads and maybee use em on deer. Heck the deer in Tennessee are as big as a golden retrever anyway, so I think they should work for deer or any unfortanate small game that passes by. And for sharpness I grinded them down on the bench grinder then for the final touches I used a dremel to make it nice and even then a knife sharpener.  The finished ones will cut you like a razor.

[Kip]

When we were young we put nails on the railroad track and they were very flat the next day used them for our arrows.Never derailed a train that I know.Kip

[SOS]

Killer B, Did you ever figure out your bolts and washers we discussed on page one of this thread?  Steve

[Tom Leemans]

Fellas, you can probably order any and all of that stuff from McMaster Carr Supply. Have them send you a 3,728 page catalog!  McMaster Carr

[KILLER B]

SOS I cannot get the washers to come even close. The Countersink bit I have won't go into the lag bolt heads at all. I will post the pictures on here so you can see what I was trying.

[KILLER B]

Here is what i was going to use....



And this is the bellows i made to take the temper out of the lag bolt.





And that where im stuck. With no way to countersink the heads even after removing the temper there way to hard to countersink.

[SOS]

That looks like an ugly amount of work!!!  I think I said earlier, the flat head bolts I got didn't seem to match the angle of my countersink.  Had to putz around with it and a large bore drill bit to get it to set well and deep into the phenolic I showed earlier.  I will say my countersinks had a hard time chewing into the phenolic, steel would be down right ugly.

Build up the limb butt with phenolic or fiberglass with some wood of choice thrown in for looks......or buy the washers!  Don't know where else to get them but from Binghams.  Or as mentioned above, McMaster-Carr.  Let me know if anyone finds them elsewhere.  Till then, I like my limbbutts. Will probably use thinner phenolic next time - but my limb mounting system survived a bad dryfire when the riser didn't so they must work okay.