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diamiter reduction
JackCrafty:
is there any fairly simple way to reduce the diameter and/or weight of a shaft besidse sanding?
Nope. IMO sanding is the best and easiest method. ;)
sailordad:
hey hillbilly
i would,and am surre others would,appreciate if you could explainin some detail how you do that.
i have 30 red oasier shoots that i have dried and peeled and am tryingto make into arrows. i would like them to be straighter and more even down the length of tha shaft.
it sounds like you have it figured out,so if you could use with less knowledge,but the urge,would appreciate it ;D
thank you
peace,
tim
D. Tiller:
Me too! Having a hell of a time getting my rosewood shoot shafts straight. Yours look like they came out of a lathe!
Hillbilly:
Nothing complicated, just takes a bit of practice to get the feel of it. Hard to explain, easy to show. Set the plane blade for a really fine cut. You can hog more off at a time if you're doing the rough reduction of a big shoot, but when you get anywhere close to your finished size, you want to take really thin shavings. Get the shoot as straight as possible before you plane it, or you'll cut through the grain. I drill a hole in a piece of wood about 1/32" bigger than the finished diameter I want, then start at one end of the shoot and plane it down evenly to a long taper until the end fits snugly through the hole. Then keep working down the shaft. Rotate the shoot a bit between strokes with the plane or you'll have an oval shaft. Keep checking with the hole/guage as you work down the shaft until it will slide from one end to the other, then sand it smooth. Much faster and easier than major sanding to me, no hand cramps.
DBernier:
Thanks Hillbilly. I guess it is not rocket scientist work after all. Just work. :o
Dick
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