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[MikaelMazz]

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I was shooting my bow at glass bottles today and I got an arrow stuck in this bottle. And it cant be pulled out. Has this happened to anybody?

Ok well that did not happen but does anyone know how I got this wooden arrow stuck in this bottle? No glue it is a one piece arrow. Some of you may have seen this trick before.

 

[hiho]

i have an idea.

and will await your answer instead of getting a silly explination from google

 

[Tye Possum]

Unless it's just sitting behind the jar and it's just an optical illusion I have no idea.

 

[TeeDee]

Well I think I may know but will wait for the 'reveal'.

Did you do this yourself?

 

[Chris the Cat]

Magic!!?
C da C.

 

[MTG-]

push a branch through the hole and let it grow... then carve it later on..

 

[Badger74]

I'll stick my neck out.

Made out of soft wood and compressed as it passed through the glass, only to expand on exit.

Waits for the mockery!

 

[MTG-]

I think its done the same way as apples in a bottle. Push the branch in with blosson on it, support it on the limb while it grows and take it down at the end of the season.

I may be wrong and totally bonkers, but thats what you get for listening to jelly babies

 

[Ogri the trog]

Seen these in book before, often with wooden rings on the arrow shaft too,

quite simple really but nonetheless effective - did you do it yourself?

Ogri the trog

 

[MikaelMazz]

I did do it myself.
Badger74 pretty much got it. It is a peice of staghorn sumac.
You carve out the shaft and feathers and leave a big block on the end. Then boil it and copress it and carve it to a cylinder and put it through the holes in the bottle and put the end in hot water and it expands. Then you carve the arrow head.

 

[hedgerow pete]

I was more impressed that you managed to cut such neat holes in the jar when i try they break, well done for the work very impressive

 

[MikaelMazz]

Thanks, I broke two bottles before I got this one drilled. I heard about putting tape over the galss bedore drilling it. I did not do that but I bet it would help.

 

[John Fenna]

Ah - it is a bit like the egg in the bottle trick!
A perfect hens egg in a bottle too narrow in the mouth to let it out!
The trick is to soak the egg in vinegar until the shell goes rubbery, then carefully sqeeze it into the bottle.
Let the vinegar evaporate and the shell goes hard again....

 

[Paul_B]

Nice one, but do you think you have too much time on your hands?

Knew the egg one though with the vinegar. Mmmm! Pickled eggs. Off now for dinner.

 

[QDanT]

Ah - it is a bit like the egg in the bottle trick!
A perfect hens egg in a bottle too narrow in the mouth to let it out!
The trick is to soak the egg in vinegar until the shell goes rubbery, then carefully sqeeze it into the bottle.
Let the vinegar evaporate and the shell goes hard again....

if you push a piece of burning paper into the bottle then put the egg on the top vacuum will pull it in for you
cheers Danny