Mounting a broadhead onto a shaft is a literal pain, especially when you have to hold those sharp blades. So after seeing a rubber/plastic set in the 3-Rivers catalogue, I thought, “I can make a period-looking one of these far cheaper.â€
As a poor and amature seamstress(?), I have lots of empty thread spools so grabbed a large wooden one, wrapped it in leather to prevent splitting and set the head into the hole, tapped, removed, filed and repeat.
Here is the result:
The thing is small, easy to handle and has three grooves on one end for triple blades, two grooves on the other end for double-bladed heads.
BTW, the head you see here is a standard 3-blade head that I filed down to imitate a swallowtail-head. I call it an “Orc Killerâ€!
I quickly realized that as well as it works, it may be too bulky and added extra (uneeded?) gear so thought a bit and came up with this idea.
This is the handle to my head-sharpener stone. As before, the side holds a 3-blade and a 2-blade head.
The first pic is a modified hunting head I filed into a swallowtail design, the second is a swallowtail from a set of 6 I bought on e-bay.
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Cool idea! Looks very functional!
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