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In the spirit of this homemade bow project, I wanted to make josh a finger tab to go with the arm guard. At some point I will need to make a quiver as well. I traced the shape of my homemade finger tab for Josh's and cut out 3 of them from some medium thickness scrap leather.




I then stacked the 3 and used brass rivets to hold them together.



I then began to focus on the arrows for Josh's new bow. I got the shafts From a local vendor. I bought Gold Tip Traditionals because of the wood grain look.



After capping the back 9 inches of the shafts with white lacquer, I started cresting the shafts using a color scheme that resembles the riser. I will write Josh's name on all the shafts.





The fletching will be 4 1/2 inch long LW barred turkey feathers. Since nobody sells 4 1/2 feathers, I bought 5 inch parabolic cut and converted them to 4 1/2 shield cut.



Now the fletching begins.

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One down, 11 more to go.

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