Breakage Prevention

You know how it is. The arrow hits the target at a slight angle or you hit the target at a certain angle and the arrow breaks at the tip. This often happens immediately after the tip end of wooden arrows with attached glue tips, as a notching effect occurs here.

With carbon arrows, collars are often used which are pushed over the arrow shaft to prevent the tip from breaking off.

This is not so easy with bamboo shafts because bamboo is a natural product and does not grow to a defined shaft diameter. A collar with a fixed diameter is therefore not the solution here.

A solution must adapt to the shaft diameter.

Arrow Winding

This can be realized with a winding. A thin (diameter 0.2 mm) and very stable thread with a length of approx. 160 cm is wound around the shaft at the front end of the shaft after the tip of the shaft mandrel and covered with a thin layer of epoxy.

This stabilizes the arrow shaft and provides very good protection against the tip breaking off. The epoxy layer also protects the thread from being rubbed off when it hits the target.

Arrow Tube

Another solution without having to wind 160cm of string onto an arrow shaft is to use an arrow tube.

The arrow tube consists of a fiberglass fabric and is simply slipped over the arrow shaft. Since the fiberglass is elastic, this works for practically all arrow shaft diameters.

First apply epoxy to the arrow shaft, then slide on the arrow tube, and then apply another layer of epoxy to soak the arrow tube. After the epoxy layer has dried, smooth it with sandpaper.

This solution is very stable and can be implemented with little effort.