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Arrow tapper tool remake

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salad days:
Sure beats paying a hundred bucks for one. I'm gonna start one tonight. Between this, the home made spine tester, and the homemade fletching jig I can build arrows for next to nothing! At the rate I break um thats a good thing. :D

Otoe Bow:
Thanks for taking the time to post that Dick.  That's pretty cool. 

Mike

DBernier:
No problem Otoe. If it helps "get er done" that is all that counts. Remember guys to go slow pushing the shaft thru. If it binds it will snap. Did I mention the files were 10 inch?

Dick

Pappy:
I may give that a try,I have one but it has course sand papper instead of the files.I use strips off of stick on sand paper used in a body sander but I think the files would work better.Good idea. ;)
   Pappy

DBernier:
Pappy, the sandpaper worked fine but I had to change it often. I was using contact cement so had to wait for it to dry etc. Contact sand paper would be much faster. The only draw back with the files is the "clogging". You have to take the files off, same as the paper, and clean them with a SS brush or and x-acto with a #11 blade. The saw dust can cake on pretty hard and then put ridges in the shaft when you keep the drill working. I use a small paint brush to clean between the files doing each shaft. I usually put some water on the effected area and the shaft swells back to normal, and the groves are gone. A "slight" sanding and your good to go. All and all it works good. BTW this was not my idea totally. I saw it somewhere and I wish I could remember where, (got CRS,   ??? )   so I could give credit to the guy. Quote: "Nothing is new, just rediscovered." Ro Bernier, my father.

Dick

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