Prototype 5 and the tools used to make it.


Uni-body construction, carved from a single piece of red oak. It's not as lopsided in real life as it looks here. I carved the fins to be slightly rolled, hoping to add some amount of longitudinal spin as an arrow flies. It works quite well! At least on foam. The shouldered point makes it engage the foam instead of bouncing out as it was doing at first with a more blunt point, but limits its overall penetration. The fins are about half as thick as the front part of the body.

I won't talk about the knife, as the rules forbid me to do so. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The rock is just an anonymous rock, used for sanding it smooth.

And the wad of wool is packed into the blowgun behind the dart to form the seal.