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Woodely:
--- Quote from: paulsemp on August 30, 2019, 02:27:33 pm ---Not to rain on your parade but making arrows from board stock is a tremendous amount of work. It's a numbers game you need to make a lot in order to end up with piles of matched shafts. I know that cuz I've done it and I know other people that do it. also if you're cutting them on a table saw a quarter of that board will end up on the floor as dust do the wide kerf. I've bought $30 fir boards and only ended up with a half a dozen shafts spine within my range. Now I've come to realize for 40 bucks to buy a matched dozen set of shafts is cheap.
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I buy Hemlock board stock when I'm done that is complete with the plastic tips and metal field points I end up at $5 per arrow, but that's cheep compared to buying a dozen from an arrow maker for $140. When you do 3-D shoots and stuff you end up loosing and breaking a few.
Woodely:
I finish my shafts at 11/32". I slice them on the saw at around 14/32" then I use a jig to hand plane the corners then chuck the shafts in the drill and sand them until I hit 11/32" at that point you can decide if you want to taper the shafts. It works for me. Time consuming though. I can build 2 sets of limbs in the same time.
At any rate try making them from that stock and good luck.
Russ:
look up how to make a dowel maker. seems like the best way to do a shaft. you just have to get the hole the right size.
DC:
I tried the homemade dowell maker. I used up a dozen shafts just getting it set up and the finished item was not smooth. I still had to sand them in the drill. A shooting board and a block plane does a great job and they are just about done when you're finished planing. I'd also rather listen to the pleasant sound of a plane rather the the screaming of a router. It takes maybe 5 min to plane one. I think I spent 2 days making the jig. Could have made a hundred arrows. Mind you I find making jigs very satisfying ;D
Russ:
how do you make a shooting board? also how do you sharpen a block plane, mine has a lot of chips.
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