OK I have to say I was thinking this was another forum, thus another project I have going. Once I looked again, I realized which one it was, to make broadheads at home, and to THAT, I have been fairly successful.
Here is a picture of my latest version.
This one is when I first made it. The blade is .075" thick and the slot I cut (yes my little blades ARE cutting it) was only .040"
wide, so the tips expand a bit and don't hold the blade snug. I soldered it in place (soft solder) mainly cause I am totally out of gas for ANY type of welding/soldering, so it was just the little propane torch and that barely got the thing soldered.
I wanted to shoot it to see how well it held up, and since I don't have the $$$ to buy the gas yet, I decided to use my Mig with the flux core wire. here is a pic of that change. It's not pretty, but works for what I wanted to do.
This worked perfectly.I shot this into a hillside behind my house, that is about 50% decomposed granite. When I dug a trench in that hill it was with a pick axe and spud bar. The shovel was useless.
I shot the arrow into this hill about 20 times, and the picture above, was taken AFTER I finished shooting. The slight curve in the lower edge was not from shooting, that was from me trying to grind off some of the weld before I shot the head. I hit the edge a couple times, thus the gouge.
The blade was not bent, nor was the tip damaged, other than getting dull, which is expected.
I ganged two blades together for the .040" cut, and will try three blades and hope to get an even .060" cut. If that doesn't allow me to better fit the blades, I will be forced to look for thinner blades.
This head weighs over 430gr (too heavy), but the shank portion of the ferrule ( I machined that myself) is too long. I can cut that almost 1/2", in addition, I can, and need to trim the ferrule more than the first one I made. This one is cut to a 7 deg taper, but I will have to make the taper longer, maybe 5 or 3deg. The weight by itself isn't too bad, since I am shooting about that weight in my carbons anyway, BUT the big difference with my current setup, is I am shooting a 135gr steel, self made insert, and 100gr broadhead adapter (screw in to glue on head) and a 200gr broadhead. The head I made weighs 435gr itself, and the arrow I am shooting it with also still has the 135gr steel insert, so that makes it 565gr total up front, and is too much for my bow and my liking.
This will probably shave off about 75gr, hopefully more. If that's all I get, then I will have a couple options. My goal is 300gr for the complete head. I can make some holes in the existing blade, or as mentioned earlier, look for thinner blades.
I am going to make others, soon, but I am still trying to get a deer through the last days of deer season. It ends this Sunday, so I will have a bit more time to devote to projects after that.
