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Made my first arrow!
Nidhoggr:
As the title says: I just made my first arrow. While it is far from the prettiest thing ever it was a proof of concept to see if I could pull it off. It flies insanely well!
The shaft is a 5/16" oak dowel cut nock-to-end of shaft to 24" to accommodate my 23" draw.. The arrow head is a glue on field point that is 125 grains. The fletching are 4" TrueFlight Parabolic Cut in Barred Purple. The overall weight is 558 grains. I got the best photo I can with my junky phone, and a video of it firing into a target at 10 yards in slow motion. I thought I had a video of it in regular speed but I was wrong. The fletching is held on with glue and heavy silk thread and lightly coated with glue. No jig was used for any of this. Done purely by hand. The only tools used were a hand saw and a power sander to taper the point more evenly.
One one of my shots on about a 3" thick piece of styrofoam it passed straight through it and embedded about 5" into the ground. Like I said: While it's far from the prettiest arrow ever it works really well and that's what counts to me. Future ones I will beauty up.
Video: https://i.imgur.com/eUvKZP2.mp4
Hawkdancer:
Nice work! Looks like you are on the way! The pretty doesn't help them shoot better, but it can test your skill as well. Hand work is great!
Hawkdancer
jeffp51:
my first one didn't look that good.
Nidhoggr:
Thanks guys! Was funny: Had my stepson (he's 16) film me. When I shot the arrow and we heard it SLAM into a milk carton filled with water and split it open he went "Holy s***!" lol. I had a similar reaction. One of the videos you hear me go "Well I think it flies well!" and he goes "be proud! you made that". For some reason hearing angsty teens approval and praise feels great haha.
Pat B:
Arrows can be as addictive as bows. Nice work. Feels good when you get your new arrow to fly well. :OK
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