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Block of wood 2, build along
Swampman:
Meanwhile, I used my thumb plane and rounded off a couple of the squares while watching Monday night football. I simply hold it in my hand and take wood off. I have a piece of scrap black locust with a 3/8 inch hold drilled in it. I use that to slightly compress the wood and make it round. I will still need to sand them.
Swampman:
I looked over the grain from the 3/8 inch squares and it appears i got lucky with my first two cuts off that block. The grain runs straight down the length of the blocks. I have a little wiggle on one end of the blocks but that will be cut off. It appears Wayne sent me a block of wood already squared up.
Thanks Wayne!
TSA:
the block should have been square , as it came directly off our head saw. but i dont trust anything ;)
nicely done on those shafts, :OK
our cants are 37" long, so there should be lots of wriggle room to trim off less than perfect ends.
the nice thing about hand making the shafts, is that you can make the exact spine you want. Spruce is very consistent, once you figure out the diameter you need to get your required spine, it should be pretty much the same- for the same area in the block.
nice work, that block will keep you out of trouble for a while!! :BB
Thats good, if you dont need to monkey around with the sled.
i have a similar craftsman saw ( not as old though :D) , and if you ever need too, its really easy to make a simple sled for them.
just cut a strip of hardwood that will fit the miter slot in the table top, nice and snug, but will still move freely, and screw that to a piece of scrap plywood- attach some toggle clamps and its done!
Swampman:
Well, I had some time today to do some more hand planing. I planed them down to my 3/8 inch sizing hole. I then hand sanded each of the shafts.
I cut the shafts down to 28 inches. This is shorter than I usually make my arrows but I am planning to pair them with a shorter draw black locust bow that I plan to Turkey hunt with.
I sanded the shafts a little more until they all fit through my 23/64 inch hole on my scrap piece of black locust.
From here I plan to spine and finish one arrow first and test shoot it from my bow. I will then work on the other 5 arrows.
BowEd:
Good evaluating process shown to get a nice set of matched arrows for your bow Swampman.Nice looking shafts.Will you stain them any before finishing?
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