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how long to make an arrow?

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BowEd:
Self nocking and fletching usually can be done in under an hour.It's the debarking/straightening/spining and reducing to the paticular bow or bows if the handles are the same that takes the time for me with shoot shafts.Making arrows from square board stock with power tools is half the time for sure.Although shoot shafts are tougher in the end and I enjoy that part of them.
Some peoples experience and methods are faster than others so I'd say it's an individual type thing for a person to find out themselves.Close to 2 hours I'd say per finished shoot shaft for me.

jeffp51:
BJ, the bamboo arrows I have made take longer to straighten than osier. You also would need some sort of insert (I think) to haft a stone point.

Even given the time, I still really enjoy the process. It is harder than making a bow in some ways, but also more predictable. If you make several arrows at once, it probably speeds up the time for each individual arrow a bit.

willie:
Ethnological reports often mention much more time was spent by primitive archers making arrows than bows

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