Ok, here are a few that I made before 2010
This first one looks a lot like one of @daniscool 's. I got it to this point and tossed a few darts, set it aside for some unknown reason. A couple days later I noticed that one of my dogs decided he wanted to modify the bird head. I never wanted to mess with it after that. It's been sitting since 2012.
This shows the chew marks left by my buddy Tyler. I didn't chew him out, but he got reprimanded pretty good.
This picture shows 3 in different stages of completion. The left is Osage Orange. After cutting and shaping with a rock, I used my belt sander to smooth it out, then set it in with a couple more that were in the process of getting completed one of these years.
The middle one is Mesquite and is complete. It had a stone carving tied to the thing that has the point for the lance. The one pictured is not the one because I can't find the original. Anyway, I tossed a couple darts with it, then the stone flew off. So, another one to be worked on at a later year..
The one on the right was used for about 25-30 throws, and then retired as it did what it was made for. Another retirement
This picture is just to show where the carving is supposed to go. The carving pictured, dendridic soap stone, actually goes on a pipe made with a stone from an upper mid-eastern state that has black pipe stone, carve able like the stuff from Minnesota?. (I had to spell out and separate carve and able because spell check does not recognize them as one word.)
Here are 2 more. The longer one I made, using my saw. Got it to that point, and quit on it as something else came up.
The one with the leather wrapped handle is my go to. Made of Osage and Angus beef hide. heheeh I've probable tossed a couple hundred throws with it.
Just a detail of The Thing. I have no idea why I can't come up with the name for that. Anyway, it was carved with a rock and sanded with sandstone.
This is the crudest one I've made. Used a stone drill bit to drill out the hole The Thing is made from a tine off a deer antler. It worked pretty good, but it got put aside like all the others.
This is the top view of it. I used a future limb hole to go through for the antler tine and also easier drilling with the stone bit.
Next post below. .............. Nubs
This first one looks a lot like one of @daniscool 's. I got it to this point and tossed a few darts, set it aside for some unknown reason. A couple days later I noticed that one of my dogs decided he wanted to modify the bird head. I never wanted to mess with it after that. It's been sitting since 2012.
This shows the chew marks left by my buddy Tyler. I didn't chew him out, but he got reprimanded pretty good.
This picture shows 3 in different stages of completion. The left is Osage Orange. After cutting and shaping with a rock, I used my belt sander to smooth it out, then set it in with a couple more that were in the process of getting completed one of these years.
The middle one is Mesquite and is complete. It had a stone carving tied to the thing that has the point for the lance. The one pictured is not the one because I can't find the original. Anyway, I tossed a couple darts with it, then the stone flew off. So, another one to be worked on at a later year..
The one on the right was used for about 25-30 throws, and then retired as it did what it was made for. Another retirement
This picture is just to show where the carving is supposed to go. The carving pictured, dendridic soap stone, actually goes on a pipe made with a stone from an upper mid-eastern state that has black pipe stone, carve able like the stuff from Minnesota?. (I had to spell out and separate carve and able because spell check does not recognize them as one word.)
Here are 2 more. The longer one I made, using my saw. Got it to that point, and quit on it as something else came up.
The one with the leather wrapped handle is my go to. Made of Osage and Angus beef hide. heheeh I've probable tossed a couple hundred throws with it.
Just a detail of The Thing. I have no idea why I can't come up with the name for that. Anyway, it was carved with a rock and sanded with sandstone.
This is the crudest one I've made. Used a stone drill bit to drill out the hole The Thing is made from a tine off a deer antler. It worked pretty good, but it got put aside like all the others.
This is the top view of it. I used a future limb hole to go through for the antler tine and also easier drilling with the stone bit.
Next post below. .............. Nubs
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