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backtowood B2W:
winter time - arrow building time

made some more dogwood and few hazel arrows, played around a bit with different field tip point styles. Self nocks are my favorite style and working them out is getting better and faster.

The shafts for the arrows were quite close to the desired spine and weight.

The bundle raw shafts are from the thicker shoots, planed them down to  50# spine, 11/32 tip to fit the taper for screw on field tips, and sanded them down to 45 - 50 spine range with a driller and 80 grit sandpaper. They weight pretty close the same. Also this were the straighter ones from beginning and they stay much straighter than my first shoot shaft arrows.

Still some just don't wanna stay straight, and I red that dog wood shafts will stay straight when you make grooves lengthwise before fire hardening it.
I tried to cut some grooves in a lousy flyer and did a lousy job...
Does anyone know how this is done?
I like those shafts more and more. Haven't tried bamboo yet but shoot shafts are really tough.
Need to find more hazel as this ones are a bit lighter and straiter than the dogwood.

Hawkdancer:
B2W,
You can make a groove cutter by cutting a notch in a block of hardwood to match the shaft diameter, and drill a nail hole into the point of the notch, and insert a small nail through the back side.  Adjust to the depth you want the grooves and glue the nail in.
Hawkdancer

artcher1:
What Hawkdancer said.👍

When I started grooving shafts I'd never heard of the process. I was trying to make short shoot hunting arrows. but after sanding them down to spine weight I ended up with arrows too light in physical weight for hunting. So I figured out that grooving a shaft would lower it's spine while still maintaining good hunting weight for short hunting arrows.

Later I learned that the grooves may have been used for keeping a shaft straight. Then I read that they were blood grooves. But for me, grooving was used for lowering spine while maintaining good hunting weight for short hunting arrows...…...Art

backtowood B2W:
Thx I will try that.
Had something like that in mind, but didn't know how to maintain a even depth groove as the diameter changes. But I guess angeling the tool with a bit of practice will work out.

Art, how many grooves do you make and how much does this lower the spine?
You didn't get shafts which stayed straighter than before?

Thx for reply
B2W

Hawkdancer:
I try to keep my shoot shafts pretty close to the same diameter full length, but a shim under the shaft will raise it up for grooving.
Hawkdancer

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