Making a Sioux War Arrow
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- primitivepathw... Billy Berger teaches you how to make a museum-quality Sioux war arrow from the Great Plains. This video will copy the authentic war arrows used by the Sioux and other Plains Indians of the northern Great Plains and are based on authentic arrows housed in museums across the country.
Your videos taught me how to make a bow 10+ years ago. Really glad to see you're still making videos!
Thanks so much! I've been offline for a while...just had so much going on, but I missed making videos for all you guys and I'm planning to get back in the groove and start dropping some more cool videos in the near future...so stay tuned!
I had almost the exact experience I built my first bow 11 years ago after watching your videos, I'm so happy you're still here
One thing to add about the grooves down the shaft, I saw a video of a native guy say they were to stop the shaft warping in the heat, so they were functional and not just decorative.
I heard/read the same thing
Yes they were definitely functional.
i think the reduction in material on a side might allow the arrow to relax and accept straightness correction better. like making a bow. you flatten the belly so there is no resistance of material where as you may bend a branch and it breaks it tension. 🤷♂️
Dude always has the perfect timing to drop a vid.
Haha.. Thanks!
I was beginning to worry about you because you have a genuine love for sharing this info. Then I saw your website and figured you’ve been busy with life! Very cool. Really love your videos and appreciate you.
Trust me, I've really missed making and uploading content. Life just keeps me so busy lately. Plus I've been working on building my brand new website and that took several months to complete. I was also keeping quiet because I didn't want to start uploading videos that would only drive traffic to an older, now defunct website. I also had to make more inventory so I would have some cool products on there. Combine that with work and trying to keep up with orders and I had almost no free time! But now that I've got the website pretty much done I should have more time to film more content for y'all. I've got lots more cool videos I plan to upload so stay tuned!
Great to see a video from you again Billy!! Your knapping videos have helped me tremendously recently. Thank you 🤝🏼
Thanks brother! I've got more videos on the way so don't go anywhere... 😀
i miss these videos
Well then, stay tuned because I've got more videos in the works and I'll be dropping more in the near future. Feels good to be back!
RETURN OF THE KING!!! 👑
Thanks so much!! I'll be dropping more videos soon, so stay tuned!
Now we just need to see them flying!
Heating the arrow shaft hardens the grooves edge to help the shaft remain straight . Turkey feathers look better than the standard wing feather . Boning the shaft helps too .
Yeah I didn't have to heat the shaft because it was already straight. I used turkey wing feathers which I've seen used on a lot of authentic Plains arrows.
@@primitivepathwaysI believe he is referring to fire hardening the shaft, for durability, rather than using heat to help straighten the shaft.
Does putting the hide glue on the sinew, before it is dry, effect the way the sinew dries and sets? I have always heard to apply the glue after the sinew has dried.
Beautiful arrows. 👍
Yep
@@primitivepathwaysthose were some of the straightest I’ve seen personally
i found your bow making vids long ago, it pushed me to learn english to understand how to make bows, now two of those skils are in my set
So glad I was an inspiration to you!
I'm begging you, don't dissappear again! Great video!
I don't plan to! Got more cool videos on the way...stay tuned!
I just had a lot of fun demonstrating arrow making and bows at a festival near me. gonna have a booth too at the local fair with other crafters at the end of this month! very fun and exciting to see everyones interest and hear their stories!
First! Yeah!
Awesome, thanks for the video.
You're welcome! I'll be releasing more videos soon so don't go too far...
Come the apocalypse..I'll need to know how to do this..and alot more! 👍🏻
It's definitely useful knowledge!
Great video Billy, love your attention to details. Please keep up the good work! 😊
Thanks brother I plan to upload more stuff soon. I'd been keeping quiet since I was working on a new website for the last few months and that took a lot of time to make. But now that it's active, I plan on creating more content for RUclips!
Welcome back Mr. Billy 😎👍✨
Thanks! So glad to be back. I've missed making content for you!
Great video, watching from Australia - love your content
Thanks so much! I'll be uploading more videos soon!
Man, those arrows are wicked looking. I know as self bow builder and primitive arrow builder myself, the time involved with making a single arrow. A half dozen arrows take as long to make as it takes to build a bow! Absolutely beautiful work brother!
Thanks so much! Yeah, you're right....making arrows is a lot of time and work. But the result is worth it in my opinion.
@@primitivepathways you are so welcome. I live in Coos Bay, Oregon and absolutely loved your adventure in eastern Oregon where you knapped an arrowhead and hunted for jackrabbits. That looked so fun.
Damn good to see you making videos again Billy!! Nice work.
Thanks! It feels good to be back. Got more videos in the pipeline, so stay tuned!
@@primitivepathways sure will buddy!
Love the barrel notch
Class.
Great video, thanks 👍
Thank you from Costa Rica.
You are back!
And I don't plan on going anywhere!
I missed you bro
Missed you too! Glad to be back. I've got more videos in the works so stay tuned...I'll be uploading more videos in the near future. It's good to be back!
Nice. 👍
So damn glad to see you back. Neber unsubscribed. Always stayed tuned 😎
Awesome! Glad you stuck around! I'll be dropping some more cool videos here soon so stay tuned
Last thing you ever want to do is gouge your shaft...words of wisdom
dammit
Haha!!
Beautiful art perfect weapon 👌❤️
Congratulations brother taking the time to investigate just makes your craft much more authentic. Shout out from this rural corner somewhere in Mexico.
Thanks brother!
Very cool man 😎👍💯🔥🏹
Thanks! I agree!
How awesome 👍👍
I saw your artículo in a magazine, from there i make the arrows in that way....thank you...
Let’s go another video 💯💯🔥🪶
I'm planning on it!
Beautiful! You and Thad make the best arrows of anyone in the country. What type of hardwood shafts do you use on these?
I use dogwood if I can find good, straight shoots, but the flowering dogwood we have here in the East is MUCH different than the actual dogwood the old Plains warriors used. I often used Chinese privet since it's an invasive species, it has lots of straight shoots and its hardness and workability is similar to dogwood. It's not quite as hard as dogwood, but it's close and works really well.
@@primitivepathways I would love to have some of the dogwood from the plains. I didn’t even think about Chinese privet, tons of it here too! I’m going to look for some straight shoots of that.
Thank you Billy, great video. What would be the typical dimensions of these Sioux war arrow points?
Hi love your videos can you please to another pentration test video I know many tribes used low poundage bows like in the 30 35 poundage range to.hunt big game . Be interesting to see you test them out on meat target dead animal carcass or something like that like in one of your previous videos.
I have another penetration test where I test the penetration of a replica Great Basin bow on a deer. I'll be releasing it soon, so stay tuned!
So the native Americans used a wood rasp to help from their arrows. So did they get the wood rasp from?
Amazing video! I have wanted to make some of these arrows for a while, so this video was just what I needed! I live in Norway so I don’t have access to the same wood species those tribes would have. So for me it would either be shoots from birch, hazel or viburnum. Do you by any chance know about the thickness of the shafts? And is it the same thickness along the whole shaft?
The Plains tribes commonly used dogwood or chokecherry shoots for their shafts, but I would think the viburnum you have would work well. Just about any straight, reasonably hardwood shoot would work for these arrows. For the most part, the shafts have the same diameter from one end to the other, however I have seen some that were tapered on the front end for the last 4 or 5 inches, then the point was attached. Shaft thickness varied from 1/4 inch to 5/16 of an inch in diameter.
Wow!
Does those grooves actually serve some practical role, or do they rather have a spiritual meaning?
The grooves, when they are heated over an open fire, become fire hardened and they act as stiffeners that keep the arrow from warping with humidity changes.
Whats the purpose of the grooves?
The grooves are supposed to act as stiffeners when the shaft is heated over a fire and straightened. That helps keep the arrow from warping with humidity changes. I've never done any exhaustive study to determine if it actually works and to what degree, but bowmaker Jim Hamm said that his arrows remained much straighter when he grooved his shafts, heated them over the fire and then straightened them. They wouldn't have grooved their arrows for no reason, so I'll definitely concur with Jim's findings.
@@primitivepathways Jim is a master! His part in the Traditional Bowyer’s Bible cements that fact.
@@primitivepathways I thought that they could also be used to distinguish poisoned from non-poisoned arrows, or differently poisened ones from each other.
But for that the colours, around where the feathers are fixed, could also be used.
GREAT VIDEO AGAIN~ THE FEATHER PART WENT BY TOO FAST.
You're very welcome!
Are you somehow claiming they had steel arrowheads?
The whole country was in the stone age, before white man came along and elevated them.
This would've been a post-colonial arrowhead, made by an immigrant blacksmith and traded to a Native American. Which you would know if you listened to what he said in the video...
@@connort7497 so yeah, made by the white man and traded to the primitives