Update

The spine tester is ready. All I have to do now is clear things up a bit in here and the testing of my supply of shafts can begin.

Once I have them sorted into their various draw ranges, construction of arrows will begin and will be my primary project until I run out of shafts, flights, or points. After that, order in more points. ;)

My elder son is of the opinion I could probably sell some of my arrows. I hadn't considered it; I am still quite new at it all, especially the medieval sort. Cutting nock slots, making inserts, etc. is rather different from using snap nocks after all. Still, perhaps I'll look into it, once I get things really organized. No reason I can think of for folk to order arrows from a new fletcher, but stranger things have happened.

I will shortly get back to working on tillering the two hickory longbows I have. Since my elder son purchased a linen-backed red oak longbow (35#), I do not really have to make one for him at the moment...although he cannot hunt with that bow. Minimum hunting weight here is 40#. Since my sons and my lass all passed the hunter safety course, we'll be looking at hunting as a group..the Northern Rangers, the Forandiri, are growing. ;)

I am going to make a native American style quiver and experiment with it. My elder son has one he got at a Renn Faire and he loves it. Fairly simple in design, they seen to work well enough. Enough to make me curious and set me to constructing one. I am ever after lower profile simpler kit that does whatever the more expensive and complex stuff just as well.

Soon there will be more photos from Rhovannion. There is also the pack project to deal with, not to mention a few other items.

Eledhwen