Medieval Glue
A couple of weeks ago we published an article on fletching glues including superglue, rubber based glue and fletching tape. But how did our archer ancestors get their feathers to stay stuck to their...
Category: Maintenance
Fletching Glue
A significant amount of time is spend by archers fletching and refletching arrows. Its like painting the Forth Rail Bridge or pushing a boulder up a mountain for eternity .. except more frustrating at...
Building an Arrow
One of the more entertaining exchanges over the club's WhatsApp in recent years has been the suggestion, often in pictorial form, that Geo uses hacksaws, breadknives as well as a hammer and chisel to...
Hot Fix: Nocking Point - the Nail Knot
Something we've touched on before is the nocking point. Put simply it’s the point on your string where you want to nock your arrow consistently so the arrows come off the string every time...
Archery tools you don't know you had
Archery is a pretty niche activity and the kit we use to look after our bows is fairly specialist. A string jig or a fletching jig can't really be used for anything else. Although...
Nocks and Nocking
One of the least thought about parts of archery kit is the arrow nock. To many, its just a tiny bit of plastic that goes on the end of the arrow and not worth...
Maintaining the Love
You've completed your beginners course, had been practicing with club kit but finally bought your bow and it’s your new passion. You shoot every session you can. Releases are dynamic, string-picture is consistent, groups...
HotFix: Point pulling out
Arrow points and their shafts sometimes break up. Perhaps one of them feels they no longer want to be in the relationship but its more likely that it happened during removal of the arrow...
