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Tapering War Arrows
adb:
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--- Quote from: DarkSoul on June 20, 2012, 01:10:20 pm ---As far as tapering goes...do you think they had tapering jigs and powertools a few hundred years ago? ;) You can use a small but sharp hand plane. It leaves some rough edges which can be sanded smooth by hand. works great.
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What they did have was a plane with a concave edge blade, which works faster and with better rounding than a flat blade. Problem is the difficulty of getting one nowadays.
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Spokeshaves with a concave blade are not difficult to obtain. I've never tried it for arrow shaft tapering, but it would probably work OK.
Tom Leemans:
Dean Torges once showed me how to taper an arrow with a bowyer's edge tool. He drew a ring around the shaft at 3, 6, and 9 inches. He then laid the arrow on a piece of stock with a v groove running the length of it and a brad in one end sticking up just high enough to stop the arrow from moving. Now to the process... You start at the 3 inch mark and scrape towards the nock end, all the way around the shaft, rotating it after each pass, just enough to remove the mark, then move to the 6 inch line and scrape all the way to the nock, then from the 9 inch line. Once done, you only need a little hand sanding to remove tool marks and you're done.
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