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BowEd:
I made a set up once with a router and also using a power drill with the shaft spinning as it goes by the router.
Worked pretty good actually.
Tested a lot of different types of wood for arrow shafts then.Honey locust,walnut,ash,maple,black locust,and some more I forget.
They all make serviceable arrow shafts.
Personally I use shoot shafts.They are tougher than split timber shafts.I reduce them down with them in the chuck of a drill and sand paper.

organic_archer:
Shooting boards are worth their weight in gold and pretty self-explanatory to make. Mine is just two poplar boards with a hand-planed edge. You can glue or screw them together. It has an endcap on one side to prevent the arrow blanks from sliding off as you push against them with the plane. The working groove accepts up to 36" shafts, but it can be made as long or short as you'd like. The markings at 6, 10 and 12 inches are for tapering shafts. These are so much more enjoyable to use than the variety of noisy power tool jigs.

I rip 3/8 or 7/16 squares on the table saw from carefully selected boards. Plane those on the shooting board to 8-sided, and then 16-sided shafts. Then you can either sand them by hand or chuck them into a power drill and spin them to get the final round shape. After a little practice, you can crank out some really nice shafts.

Buckskinner:
That's slick, I think I need to make one of those!

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