Building a Pole Lathe & Wood Turning to make Medieval Arrow Blunts. Part 1

Building & Using a Spring Pole Lathe to make Medieval Arrow Blunts. Part 1. Isn’t archery and its associated crafts and trades fascinating? I was looking at images taken from the 14th Century illuminated manuscript Luttrell Psalter and noticed that the archers depicted in an end-margin were practising using wooden-ended arrows - so called blunts. Blunts - walnut sized and shaped wooden arrow-heads - have been used for centuries both for practise and also stunning and killing birds and small game. But the im
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