wooden arrow through bottle

I need some help. I have been trying to figure out how to get a wooden arrow through holes drilled in a bottle, or coin, etc, with the hole diameter equal to the shaft diameter.

Please can someone help me out with this one.

Thanks

Hillbilly schrieb:

Heating the coin causes the hole to expand slightly.

I am not sure if there is a procedure you can apply to wood to make it shrink a little; heating a bottle is a dubious proposition.

Cheers

Will it not just push in?

You could sand the wooden arrow ever so slightly to make it just a tiny bit smaller than the hole.

The problem is getting the head of the arrow through the hole. The hole is the same size as the shaft, but the head is much bigger. Sounds impossible, but there is a way and the wooden arrow was one piece, not cut and glued.

What about the other end of the arrow?

The other end is the arrows feathers, or at least shaped to appear that way. Again. Both ends are larger than the hole in the bottle, except for the shaft, yet the arrow passes completely through the bottle with the feather end on one side and the arrowhead on the other.

The arrow is not cut and glued in any way, and the bottle is not split or anything. Just has two hole drilled through it

The arrow is often made from some kind of soft wood, which is highly impressable (balsa). The tip of the arrow is steamed, making de wood pliable. The arrow is forced in and afterwards the tip expands again it is re-shaped and sanded.

That's it.

A second technique, used often with smaller objects (e.g., coins), is to place the object on a living branch of a tree. Initially, the branch diameter is just slightly smaller than the hole diameter. When the branch diameter grows larger than the hole diameter, the branch and coin are removed and the branch is whittled to the desired shape (e.g., an arrow).

Carl G.

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I too have a question. A hard boiled egg is put in a bottle with the diameter of neck of the bottle smaller than the smallest diameter of the egg, without cracking the eggshell. How is that done?

Compressible wood. Two-piece arrow (with seam hidden). Bottle or coin made around arrow. Arrow carved from branch grown in bottle.

I think I saw somewhere that the 'point' is carefully mashed until it will fit through the hole and then soaked in water to swell it back to original size.