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ozy clint:
just curious to gauge about how long it takes people to make a primitive cane arrow with stone point? assuming you had all the raw materials at hand and you made a single arrow from go to whoa. straighten and prep shaft, fletching with sinew wrap, selfnock, knapping and hafting a point, finishing and tuning.

Pat B:
It can easily take me 2 hours or more.

StickMark:
tuning is the longest part. yes, average 1-2 hours total, excluding gathering

jeffp51:
Knapping a point takes me at least an hour. I seldom do a single shaft at a time, but I would think that would be another 2 hours at the very least when you think about removing bark, then heat straightening, sanding to weight and proper spine. 15 minutes to cut and file in a self knock. Then Cutting and prepping fletches from raw feathers maybe half an hour. Cresting maybe the same. Then a finish coat of poly or wax, and finally wrapping the knock and fletches withe sinew. No way I finish a single arrow from start to finish in under 4 hours. I used to wonder why they were so expensive.

bjrogg:

--- Quote from: jeffp51 on January 02, 2018, 07:31:46 pm ---Knapping a point takes me at least an hour. I seldom do a single shaft at a time, but I would think that would be another 2 hours at the very least when you think about removing bark, then heat straightening, sanding to weight and proper spine. 15 minutes to cut and file in a self knock. Then Cutting and prepping fletches from raw feathers maybe half an hour. Cresting maybe the same. Then a finish coat of poly or wax, and finally wrapping the knock and fletches withe sinew. No way I finish a single arrow from start to finish in under 4 hours. I used to wonder why they were so expensive.

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I've never made a cane arrow, like Jeff mine have mostly all been Red Osier. I would say I'm  in that same time frame as Jeff. It take me at least an hour to knap a point if all goes well and sometimes it doesn't. I rasp them down to spine and weight provided I've already bareshafted one and know approximately what spine I need. Then I straighten and after awhile I straighten again. I cut in and wrap my self notch and wrap with sinew. I usually mount a target point then straighten again. The I shoot it bareshaft to see how it flies. Maybe a little fine tuning if I'm not satisfied. Then I paint my markings. Then I fletch with raw turkey feathers and sinew wrap front and back. Then I shoot with fletching and target point. Then if I'm happy with arrow I halvt with pine pitch glue and sinew wrap the stone point I knapped to proper weight to replace target point. I also wrap the front of the arrow shaft. Actually I doubt I finish a arrow in less than six hours and that's not counting harvesting and preparing the Red Osier shoots or collecting and storing the turkey feathers. I could make something that looks very similar in half the time but to make a stone point arrow I plan on hunting with takes extra time. I do believe the Red Osier shafts probably take longer than the cane.
Bjrogg

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