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Jewellery design - bronze casting

These are bronze arrowheads fashioned after a variety of traditional arrowheads straight from the history books. The bullhorn shaped arrowheads were actually used by a variety of cultures, but almost exclusively in war-times and not for hunting.
These pendants were manufactured using lost wax casting and were cast in bronze. 
Some of the arrowheads were made to look antique and rustic by applying either a hammer finish, an oxidative finish or in some cases both
The bodkin point below is based on an old English design that was fired from warbows which generally have twice the firepower of modern bows and could eve pierce plate armour.
This sparrows-beak arrowhead is also of Japanese design but this design was more often used by hunters rather than warriors 
The following arrowheads are based on "Yanone" which are traditional Japanese arrowheads that were decorated with saw-cut Sakura flower petal patterns. These arrowheads were more often given as gifts to royalty than actually fired from a bow.
Jewellery design - bronze casting
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Jewellery design - bronze casting

Cast bronze arrowheads based on traditional designs used by different cultures throughout history.

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