Spring Pole Lathe. The Mistakes I Made. Pt 2

Spring Pole Lathe. The Mistakes I Made. Pt 2. Wood Turning Medieval Archery Blunts on a Spring Pole Lathe. Lessons to Learn. We think of Medieval arrow heads as vicious iron tips but it seems many arrows were in fact tipped with wood and were blunt. The Luttrell Psalter, a manuscript from the 14th Century, clearly shows archers practising with blunt tipped arrows. Which set me wondering - how were ’blunts’ made centuries ago? So I had an idea that they may have been manufactured on an ancient type of wood t
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