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Philipp A:
Hi All,

It has been a while since I was able to do any work on my bows and arrows. I finally managed to find some time to create some arrows from my split white ash logs that have been seasoning for a bit more than a year using my newly acquired Veritas dowel maker.

I have managed to find some nice straight pieces and cut about fourty 1/2" square shafts (slightly oversized) and brought them to my neighbour to run them through his planer. I wanted to make sure that the socket from the drill fits on nice and snug.

After some initial adjustment on the dowel maker I have found that the right size for the arrows was 5/16" (I was aiming first for 11/32"). At that size the arrows still weighed in above 500 grains (other than the hardwood tipped one). I will be getting a spine tester that will hopefully arrive later this week so I can provide the spine weight for the arrows as well just from bending them I think they are in the range of around 55-65.

I have made 20 unfinished arrows with the dowel maker in my first batch and finished 4 of them. I wanted to experiment a bit and made the following 5/16" arrows:

1) 5/16" Blunt flu flu arrow 29.5' deep part of nock to tip, 556 grains, turkey and grey fox flu flu fledging.
2) 5/16" sharpened wood point arrow, 29.25" deep part of nock to tip, 447 grains
3) 5/16" arrow with 125 grains field tip, 27.75" deep part of nock to tip, 524 grains (including tip), matched turkey primary wing feather fledging
4) 5/16" arrow with 125 grains field tip, 27.75" deep part of nock to tip, 524 grains (including tip), matched turkey tail feather fledging

I am providing the google photo link for the pictures below but I am adding a couple teaser pics in the post as well:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RZx2YQB8KJBevdUXA

I would be grateful for any feedback you might have,

Happy arrow making,

Phil

Trapper Rob:
Those are very nice.

Philipp A:
Thanks Rob, did the google photo link work for you? It shows the log I started from  :)

Trapper Rob:
Philipp it did work. I really like those I've been wanting to make some of those type of blunts.

Philipp A:
Hi Rob,

the blunt was actually not that difficult to make since with the Veritas dowel maker the end where you attach the socket for the drill stays square and you are left with ~ 2 inches of square dowel followed by a step down from the first blade and then the next step to the final arrow size. I have simply broken the corners of the square and then filed the front down to a blunt point of about 1/8" breaking the four corners of the square. The sharpened arrow was a bit more difficult to make and I tempered the tip by heat treating it with my heat gun. It is surprisingly sharp.

Cheers,

Phil

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