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What tools for making shafts
penderbender:
Looks like a very nice dowel maker! Chuck up a blank and turn it through? Very interested in it and where it comes from. Cheers- Brendan
Hawkdancer:
Check out the sponsor TSA . They have several prepped shafts and maybe blanks available.
Willie - that is a nifty tool, where is it available?
A whole bunch of natural shoots will make real good arrows! Depends on how original do you want to get. I am not the guru by any means, just getting back into this skill set after about 50 years! The military does weird things to your brain ;D >:D! Not being 21 anymore doesn't help either. Bounced a couple times too many!
Using shoot, you can work them down with a scraper and size them through a hardwood board, carefully. See above disclaimer! >:D. Like that little devil! Drill a hole the size you want and gently force the shaft into it, back off, scrape, repeat as needed! Takes a bit, but you get a lot of tinder for firestarting >:D
Hawkdancer
willie:
Mike Lea & Daughter, oldguns2109 "at" sbcglobal.net
makes them for ramrods,arrows fishing rod tips and chair spindles. works on shoots and bamboo too.
its a very nice tool machined from bronze
BowEd:
cutty..Look once in the build-a-longs.There are different ways to make self nocks.Each come out with the same result.
I don't use a drill and drill bit.I use 2 hacksaw blades taped together or my band saw blade for the slot cut cross grain.On shoot shafts it's not necessary to worry about cross grain.Then a flat 1/4" wide flat file and a round hobby file matching the diameter of your serving thickness.So really only 3 tools.
I'd wrap each self nock from the throat of the nock a half inch down with sinew or a tough nylon type serving sized with thin super glue.
Knoll:
For reinforcing self nocks I've had good results using "upholstery" thread and super glue from WalMart's arts/crafts dept. This was robin hood'd arrow ... thread prevented splitting the shaft.
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