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Many years ago, I came home from a Cub Scout activity with a bow and arrows designed for fun and safety. Eventually the arrows disappeared and so d...
Supplies: 3 ft. piece of ¾ inch PEX Pipe (plumbing supply store +/- 65¢ a foot, comes in red, blue or white) Nylon string PVC pipe cutters 3 – 1...
This is the original bow I started with, I spent a month trying to determine what kind of pipe was used to make the bow. No one seemed to recognize...
Bow string: Measure 3-36 inch pieces of the nylon string. Tie a slip knot in one end of the 3 strings, and proceed to braid the string
until you have a braid 31 inches long. Tie another slip knot. This is your bow string. The bow string on my original bow was fraying, so I needed...
Bow: Using the pipe cutter, take a snip in one end of the pipe.
Take another snip, very close to the first one. This will cause a little piece of pipe to stick out. Cut it off with the box knife.
Do the same things down the other end; just make sure they are on the same side of the pipe. You don’t want the bow string to be twisted around the...
How slip one knot into the inside of the little slit.
Flip the bow over and bend it outward, until you are able to slip the other knot (in the other end of the string) into the slit in the other end of ...
Wrap a piece of colored electrical tape around the ends. This keeps the string from slipping out (if you end up with 3 white bows, like I did, help...
Take the 3.5 inch piece of grey pipe insulation,
wrap it around the center of the pipe for the bow grip, and use the tape to secure it in place. The bow is done.
Now the arrows: I will show you how I did one and you will repeat the process 2 more times so that there are 3 arrows to go with the bow. Arrow ...
After the nock I spray painted the arrow shafts brown.
Arrow tips: I wanted these arrows to be safe around things that pre-teen boys may want to shoot. I had a couple of pool noodles in the toy closet,...
I cut the round one in 4 pieces and I cut the flower one into 5 pieces.
I took the E-6000 glue and put some on the inside curve of the round pool noodle part, and glued the outer side of the flower petal to it.
I used masking tape to hold the 2 pieces together while they dried.
Once they dried, I took off the tape, and using my serrated knife and cut off the sides, so that the arrow point will have a point, but the dense cl...
Use the box knife and cut an X on the back of the arrow point and put a little E-6000 glue on the center of the X. Stick the end of the shaft that ...
Arrow vanes: I told you where to get inexpensive arrow vanes, for these arrows. If you just can’t do it, don’t put any on, they will be fine. Oth...
and attach it to the shaft so that it will be perpendicular to the nock. The way you can teach your young archer that when grabbing the arrow grab ...
Glue on the other 2 vanes, eyeballing where 1/3 of the way around the shaft is located. Let it dry.
Now they are done. This set of bows and arrows will never take down a deer, or a little brother, yet with a few lessons and reminders about archery...
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