© Mike Stringer and Caroline Hayes 1996
Using a camping mat, mark out and cut four 40mm squares and two 50mm squares (as the mat is only about 10mm thick you have to double up the number of pieces required per arrow and glue them together). Glue the squares together using contact adhesive to make two 40mm squares each approx' 20mm thick, and one 50mm square approx' 20mm thick. Do not try and cut corners by using a glue gun! This makes a very bad, untidy, difficult to carve mess!
Set aside the 50mm square block for later use. Treat the two 40mm squares as the sides of the cone, and proceed as described in the Plastazote method. You should work through the process until you have a 40mm diameter circular cone glued onto the end of the arrow shaft. Adhere the rubber as described previously, and also glue on the 50mm block of Karimat set aside earlier.
The block you have just glued on, being 50mm in diameter, will be larger than the 40mm cone it is now attached to. In this case, because we require a 50mm diameter head, you must carve the block in a circular shape, following the shape of the cone as with the Plastazote method, but you must angle your knife outwards a little to create a finished end diameter of 50mm. Therefore, instead of creating a parallel disc on the end of the cone, you have almost continued the shape of the cone right to the end of the head. Add the upholstery foam as described earlier. That's it... All you have to do is practice, and follow this procedure for any amount of arrows you wish to create.
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