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Title: Variation Amentum
Post by Jaegoor on Feb 15^th, 2019 at 6:19pm

https://youtu.be/Bda40ZOghRU

;)

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by joe_meadmaker on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 12:45am

Great throw! What was the distance?

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by Jaegoor on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 3:13am

20m

Es ist nicht mit voller Kraft geworfen.

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by Kick on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 7:38am

I've been thinking of buying a spear head and using it with an amentum but the problem is getting a shaft for it of decent wood. Finland has a lot of trees but not that many of them make for good bow or handle wood...

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by Mersa on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 7:45am

Kick , what about silver birch ?? Betula pendula?? Surely that's an "ok" wood ??? Or is that more Norway and Sweden ??

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by Kick on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 8:00am

The main area I can get wood from is my girlfriend's family's summer cottage which doesn't have almost any silver birch and none that they would be happy for me to cut down. I really can't wait to have my own cottage and hopefully a fairly large area of forest attached. That's the dream.

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by Curious Aardvark on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 8:23am

swiss arrow.
My dad and i used to make those when I was a Kid :-)

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by Jaegoor on Feb 16^th, 2019 at 5:26pm

Es geht auch eine junge Kiefer. Wenn man gut bearbeitet, hat man eine gute Barrel Form. Die ältesten Speere der Welt sind aus Kiefer. 😁

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by Jaegoor on Feb 22^nd, 2019 at 4:51pm

https://youtu.be/u8I1kkfoAG8

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by Bill Skinner on Feb 24^th, 2019 at 2:29pm

Swiss arrow is generally shorter and has fletching, plus you don't wrap the cord around the shaft to make it spin. Same principle, though. Lets yo put more force in throwing a light object.

Title: Re: Variation Amentum
Post by Rat Man on Mar 30^th, 2019 at 8:37pm

Good stuff, Jaegoor!