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Home Depot Garden Stake Bamboo Arrow Build-A-Long (Pic Heavy)
tenbrook:
--- Quote from: Pat B on December 24, 2011, 02:50:24 am ---You can sand down the nodes but only after all the straightening is done. I prefer to roll them flat. I heat a node well and then roll it between a hardwood block and a hard, smooth surface. You can compress then to almost the same diameter as the internode.
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This is what I have found as well.
Make sure all the straightening is done before sanding the nodes otherwise they will break.
I have never tried rolling the nodes flat with heat and compresion. I will have to give it a try.
--- Quote from: George Tsoukalas on December 24, 2011, 11:00:14 am ---Excellent buildalong! Jawge
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Thanks!
--- Quote from: Bevan R. on December 24, 2011, 03:22:36 pm ---My thanks as well!!
I just spent some time and made a 'reference book' of this for my shop.
Bevan
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Great!
tdunlap:
Thank is the coolest thread I have ever read! Thanks
Tom
jonathan creason:
Great buildalong, tenbrook!
I've got a question for all you guys about points for cane arrows. For a while I've used duplex points, but I've found that over time the impact in targets (and trees and rocks when targets are missed) tends to drive these into the shaft and cause it to split. But also with tapered, glue-on points it's hard to get some that mate perfectly and I usually end up with a small lip at the back of the point. This tends to snag when pulling the arrow out of a target and pull the point off. I LOVE cane arrows, but this one little issue has got me questioning whether or not I want to continue using them.
Ok, I guess that wasn't really a question, but a statement. So here's the question, how do you guys solve this problem?
artcher1:
Jonathan, you can use an upholstery thread wrap soaked/covered with epoxy or super glue behind your duplex points to prevent splitting. Or do like me, carefully fit the field points or add a hardwood foreshaft.
Take and bevel the back of your field points using a file before installing them to help prevent snagging.......Art
jonathan creason:
Thanks for the tips, Art. I've tried wrapping behind the point with artificial sinew before and coating that with superglue, but over time the glue wore off and the sinew started to fray. Might be the wax coating on the sinew not allowing the glue to fully penetrate?
I'll have to try filing down the back edge of the glue ons. I checked out a few of your arrows at Pat's last summer and they are amazing! I can't believe how smooth of a transition you're able to get between the cane and foreshaft.
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