ok.
i started out with six maple and dogwood shoots.
cut dried and they were almost all the way scraped...
![](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x74/michbowguy/100_0988.jpg)
next i had to heat straighten them...
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now the shafts are ready to be cut all to the same length,and i made sure that the nock and the point end were very close to matching sizes...
then i marked my starting points for my self nocks, here i used a hacksaw blade with tape to score and a tile blade to finish the cut...
![](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x74/michbowguy/100_0991.jpg)
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now i sand the inside a little...and dress it up...
![](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x74/michbowguy/100_0994.jpg)
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i previously cut and stripped right wing turkey feathers the night before....
![](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x74/michbowguy/100_0989.jpg)
stripped and chewed a little of last years deer backstrap sinew..
![](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x74/michbowguy/100_0999.jpg)
fletched them up and added wraps at the fore and aft of feather, and also rienforced the nock...
![](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x74/michbowguy/100_0998.jpg)
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and now for the buisness end. i just marka common distance...from end of my finger to first joint, then i draw a circle in the center of the shoot so i do NOT REMOVE THIS AREA!
and start removing wood.
![](http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x74/michbowguy/100_1008.jpg)
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and thats what im working on now.whew.
jamie