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Offline Hillbilly

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I'm tired of planing now......
« on: March 01, 2008, 11:14:44 pm »
Been busy working up some shoot shafts, here's a dozen dogwood shafts that I made for a trade, and another dozen I'm working on for myself, all hand planed down to 11/32". The second set is a dozen shafts of a dozen different woods, thought it would be pretty cool to make a completely mixed set if I can get them close in weight and spine. They're sourwood, silky dogwood, arrowwood viburnum, witherod viburnum, sweet shrub, buffalo nut, chinese privet, bush honeysuckle, hazelnut, salt cedar, multiflora rose, and white ash.



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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2008, 11:17:56 pm »
 Dang! you been busy. Me too I'll post mine tomorrow.
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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2008, 11:19:20 pm »
you must have the patience of a saint :) nice work

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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2008, 11:19:29 pm »
wow those are nice!

yo could be lazy like me and use shoots.  i use rose shoots
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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2008, 11:20:12 pm »
Hey, I want a dozen ;D. Man them are lookin good! Wish I could get em that straight.
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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2008, 11:21:27 pm »
these look like well matched cedar shafts; its trully amazing what You can do with shoots!

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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2008, 11:30:13 pm »
The mixed set still needs a final straightening, sanding, and tweaking. It's a job planing them down, but not too bad when you get the hang of it, and it's enjoyable work. Got a bunch of cane to straighten and work up, too.
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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2008, 11:34:45 pm »
What kind of plane do you use Steve?

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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2008, 11:37:23 pm »
A little bitty Stanly "thumb plane" or trim plane. You can get 'em at Lowe's for 7 or 8 bucks and they last forever.
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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2008, 11:42:33 pm »
Nice work Hillbilly, thats a lot of work.

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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2008, 11:43:24 pm »
Lots of patience, but like you said enjoyable work. Nice job, be careful to shoot only soft material.    Kenneth
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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2008, 11:48:44 pm »
Thanks, guys. Kenneth, that's why I like to use hardwood shoots-most of them will bounce off trees and rocks and keep on ticking.
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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2008, 01:38:53 am »
Nice Steve. Pretty amazing getting 12 different shoots to be a matched set of shafts. :o 8) I have some red twig dogwood shoots from Germany I've almost got completed, some sourwood shoots scraped, bundled and drying and an assortment or other shoots in all stages of drying. Also I collected a good mess of river cane from my personal stash. ;D
   I've gotta get a set completed for Pappy's shoot. It would be embarrassing  :-[ showing up with a mismatched set of cedars with a few canes thrown in. :o    Pat

ps. what ya needen in trade for that set! ;D 8)
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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2008, 05:11:56 am »
why do you guys keep setting the standards so high, nobody else can reach them?   ;D  i haven't even started straitening shoots and i'm frustrated already  ;D

nice job there, hillbilly.  but nut surprising, after seeing the arrow you gave me at the 10th classic.

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Re: I'm tired of planing now......
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2008, 08:03:06 am »
"A little bitty Stanly "thumb plane" or trim plane. You can get 'em at Lowe's for 7 or 8 bucks and they last forever"

bought my for $8 two years ago, after hundreds of arrows still as good as new; excellent tool!