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Arrow making process - questions
TSA:
yup, yer both correct, if you know your desired arrow length, the 27" draw would be for a 28" arrow- and you can simply add #5 per inch longer!
FilipT:
This is also a related question. Since arrows must have nocks and points to be able to do the bareshafting, what about points? I have/will have everything except the points. From what can I easily make them? I want to use them for target shooting, not hunting (prohibited here).
P.S.
I modified the title of the thread to more suitable. After all this is an Q & A thread.
archeryrob:
TSA, I only make arrows from shoots and they have concentric rings. Most of the shafts I have used were Southern Arrowwood and Multiflora rose as my favorites as they were hardwood, took abuse and stayed straighted unsealed.
Softwoods I have tried and not likes
Hazel, I got in travel from a guy in Scotland. It shoots well but when the humidity is up it would bend on hard contact like the target and had to be hand straightened by eye after every shot
Roughleaf dogwood, Gathered locally and tended to slowly warp back to being bent.
Bush honeysuckle, very soft, break easy and warps.
I haven't been spending enough time in the primitive crafts lately as I have too many hobbies. I do have my eye on Russian Olive and it seems extremely promising.
TSA:
Rob, i too love beautiful shoot shafts, i guess we as a specie are around today because we shot shoot arrows out of self bows. :)
some really good info there, with regards to different shaft materials..
TSA:
Filip, i guess you could still taper the shoot shafts, just like you would do any other shaft, and glue on a field point.
thatsb if you are referring to shoot shafts, for manufactured shafts, you can easily taper the front of the shaft and glue on a target point
there are many more folk on here that could give you a better answer in that regard.
i know Top Hat( i think they are a german company) have points that will just thread onto a blank wooden shaft.
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