I used to make six different kinds; a simple copper-wrap, a blunt leaden head, a sharp leaden head like a minie bullet, an awl-point wrapped with copper wire and soldered, and a broad-head hunting-arrow.
Fig. E.
To make a copper wrap, wrap with copper wire the last half-inch of the arrow until you get near the end, then lay a needle as large as your wire obliquely along the arrow as in this figure: ([Fig. E].) Continue the wrapping until you have weighted the arrow sufficiently; draw out the needle and thrust the end of your wire through the little passage kept by the needle, and draw it tight thus: ([Fig. F].)
Fig. F.
(Before wrap was drawn through.)
