Dart production is a science at the Thunderbird Atlatl shop. In our nearly 20 years of making quality darts, we have learned a lot about atlatl darts and continue to learn more.

Our customers benefit from our many experiments and ongoing learning. Over the years, we have produced and experimented with darts made of many different materials resulting in the high quality wooden Ash darts and copper tipped cane darts we produce today.

Our dart research continues almost daily and soon we will be offering even more dart options to our customers. If you have a question about darts, give us a call at 800-836-4520. You can also reach us at 607-659-3854 or on our cell: 607-743-4379. You can email us at: contact@thunderbirdatlatl.com with your questions.

In this post are pictures of our wooden Ash darts and points on some of our more traditional darts. Our standard darts come with steel field points for practice.

What’s can one do with a stick? Find out by watching the Science Channel production of Sci-Trek – Neanderthals airing Monday, April 5, at 9 p.m.

You can watch the entire show but pay close attention to the digging sticks and spears used by the Neanderthals – they were produced in the Thunderbird Atlatl shop!

About a year or so ago we were called and asked if we could help provide spears and digging sticks for a television production on Neanderthals and thus the starring role of Thunderbird Atlatl props! Providing services for custom order requests from production companies, museums and individuals is one the services we enjoy providing at our shop.

We make all sorts of custom atlatls and darts, special spears, harpoons, knapped points and more. Many of the requests involve historical research-another part of this job we enjoy. If you are looking for a specialty item, before to give us a call at 800-836-4520 and we’ll be happy to work with you.

Don’t forget to check out those spears in the Neanderthal production! If you don’t catch it Monday night, it is repeated a couple of times more on April 6.

The Thunderbird Atlatl shop is looking forward to spring and a busy season! We’re back from our trips to our Florida shows and looking forward to spring in the Northeast.

We are already putting together our 2010 schedule and have scheduled events for June, July, August, September and October. We will start posting dates in a few days. Interested in setting up a workshop? Give us a call at 800-836-4520 and we’ll see if we can set something up.

We are working on getting more information out via updates to the web page, books and videos. Keep checking back and see how we’re doing! We’re always on a learning curve! The younger generation of the Thunderbird Atlatl family is always available to keep us on line with this new technology.

In the photo below, Bob Berg leads an atlatl workshop in Vermont.