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roofus:
Anyone ever try oak?
Kegan:
--- Quote from: roofus on December 09, 2008, 12:27:54 am ---Anyone ever try oak?
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Yup- heavy and great for bows around 50-60#, and finish out around 700 grains. Not sturdy enough for stronger bows though. Tends to snap after a little bit of abuse.
Shooter_G22:
Roofus,
There was an article in the oct/nov Traditional Bowhunter Magazine about making shafts by: Tom Ireland. it was a pretty good informative article and got me wanting to go all out and make good modern traditional arrows from scratch and i mean making the shafts from a plank of wood... and cutting feathers or burning to shap and fletching, dipping, cresting the whole nine yards... i still want to be able to achieve this but im still trying to learn and do other projects at the same time and between working two jobs sometimes and volunteering for a youth outdoors team.. i seem to be lacking on getting any projects done... not to mention all the time i spend picking at this keybaord and reading and posting on this site.. ;) ; :D :D
but if you are a really good wood working craftsman and have alot of the wood working tools like table saw, bandsaw, planers, drills or press and sanders, then you would probably do good by buying the dowel rod cutter and go to town making your own shafts from cedar or pine they say pine makes a good substitute for cedar and i always pick up scrape 2x4's and 2x6's at my job site that could easily become a whole bunch of arrow shafts at no cost but a little time and energy...
i have plans on doing this myself...
it just depends on how many arrows your wanting to make...
for me i would be making a whole dump load for they kids on the outdoors team that love traditional and primitive archery and not to found of the modern compound archery thank god!!! i guess they are more like me and more survival minded but still like the look and feel of modern traditional... i think alot of there preferance is the actual fact of them being able to make or help make the equiptment them selfs... and its a whole lot moe enjoyable to have the hands on projects for them too...
anyway, the dowel cutter im talking about is simple and all you do is cut your wood down to 1/2"x1/2" square stock and chuck it into a drill useing the drill bit adapter and drill the squer stock through this dowel cutter gadget and out comes a round shaft through the other side... then you can also by a compression block from 3river s and compress the wood dowel into a compressed wood arrow shaft and whalahh!!! you have a pretty nice arrow shaft... make a whole batch spine test them cutt them to size and wieght match them and you got some pretty good shaft material that you made all by yourself at almost no cost... thats if you start with scrap 2x4's like i would... ;)
but..! of coarse i havnt done any of this yet soo its all research and theiry and hot air im blabbing off... but it is the plan...!!! :D :D :D
hell i even have an old electric can opener that i have all openened up to try and figure out how im going to use the moter for a self made cresting jig... another one of those i'll get to it projects just sitting there half way started...
lol.. :D :D
but it will happing for me with do time
just thought id let you know of some of the options that are out there and im sure that somebody that allready has this setup up and runing might chim in on it...
however if your just looking to make a dozen or two then be careful and i wouldnt suggest going through all the hassle of getting extra jigs and tools to do a couple of dozen... hell if you cant or dont want to go through the cost of ordering shafts pr-spinned i bet you could get somebody her to send you a set through the trade post... just another option...
i know iknow i can type for ever..lol..
ok i'll stop... ;D
roofus:
Well, That was a mouth full.
Yes I am seviceable wood worker ;D I've built two bows, several guitars, a couple mandolines, and a bunch of other trivial stuff. And I have all kinds of tools.
I figured out a way to make a dowler with some wood, a drill motor, and a router table.
When I finish building it I will post some step by step pics.
I was also thinking that you could build planning forms much like those used for Bamboo fly rods and plane down segments and glue them up. You could make perfectly straight shafts that way and leave the power tools in the box. I think I saw some shafts built that way online somewhere. Canada I think.
For now I bought some Oak and some Birch dowels and I built a spine tester (I'll post some pics on that later too)and I am in the process of spinning the shafts down to 52#
I came to that weight by testing a cedar arrow that works great with my bow.
Cromm:
Thats the way i've done it, find my best wooden arrow and match all the other ones to that one......
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