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Wooden Dowels?
Mazku:
I've tried to plane arrowshafts but i failed.
I have a box where i plane but they are not round nor symmetrical when they come out ::)
madcrow:
Here are a few that I made before I knew how to make them. The top 4 are ramin dowels and the bottom are cedar. If you need heavy arrows, Lowes sells oak dowels that spine out at around 95 pounds.
Imagine the look on the little salemans face when he came around the corner and saw me setting in the floor with a dowel clamped to the metal shelf with a 3/4 wrench dangling on the end of it. Hey, I wanted to estimate to spine before I bought them, and I did put the clamps and wrench before I left.
DanaM:
I have some oak dowels I'm working on but to my surprise they are laminated.
Madcrow I never thought of using the stores tools, good idea ;)
Hillbilly:
--- Quote ---I've tried to plane arrowshafts but i failed.
I have a box where i plane but they are not round nor symmetrical when they come out
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You're probably trying to take too much off at once. Set the plane blade so that it's just taking off a very thin shaving, and keep rotating the shaft continuously as you plane it-you shouldn't shave the same place twice in a row.
Wasatchhawk:
Can we get someone to do a pictorial work along showing how to plane square shafts into usable arrow shafts?
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