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Home Depot Garden Stake Bamboo Arrow Build-A-Long (Pic Heavy)
Matt S.:
Thanks a lot for all the hard work you put into this. I normally make wood shaft arrows but next time I'm at the hardware store I will have to pick up some garden stakes and, following this excellent how-to, turn 'em into feathered projectiles!!!
Diligence:
Great post!
I do almost the exactly same thing with my arrows, but I don't seal them (for no particular good reason).
One thing that I do that is a bit different is that I actually weigh all the shafts, select those that are in the ballpark for grains/inch (for my final shaft length), straighten them, rough spine them, cut them to the length that I want, then weigh each shaft (and mark with a piece of tape)-----then create my point on the duplex nails, then figure out how much to cut off each nail so that the total shaft + shortened nail = my desired arrow weight.
It's pretty easy to allocate a certain number of grains per 1/4" of nail (depending on your nails), and then you can just cut off 1/2", 1/4", etc...or more to create arrows that are more or less weight matched.
Cheers,
J
tenbrook:
--- Quote from: thumbunctious on October 25, 2011, 04:18:47 am ---What spine weight did these come out as, and how consistent was the spine weight? How do they shoot compared to e.g. POC shafts?
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I didn't have a spine meter (see bananas ;) ) so I just used an arrow that I allready knew shot well out of my bows for comparison. The arrow I used was spined 55-60#.
IMO when built well these shoot just as good if not better then POC shafts. The reason I say better is because of Bamboo's natural taper they seem to be more forgiving of spine and therefore can be shot out of a wider range of bows.
Remember to post some pics of your finished arrows. I can't wait to see them.
Thanks again everyone for all the nice comments!
Sparrow:
Super thread,Kick Azzz small game arrow ( Or for practice ) Thanks for your efforts ' Frank
bubby:
well I got one arrow done 'cept the point, thinking about puting a stone one on it
thank's for the build-a-long, helped alot, Bub
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