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straightening shafts?
Pat B:
Here are a few of my arrow making tools. The wood with the hole in the end (2 different ones) is an arrow wrench for straightening difficult crooks. I try not to use it much because it will dent the heated shaft material. This usually doesn't effect the shaft except for appearance sake.
The wood handle with the eye bolt and cup hook is also an arrow straightener. In the last 2 pics you see an arrow groover. For cutting lightening grooves in hardwood shoots that are difficult to keep straight. It is a piece of wood with a 3/8" slot cut in it and a sheet rock screw(with a sharpened blade point) that cuts the groove in the shaft. Pat
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Hillbilly:
Greg, if I sand/dye the shaft (usually do) I like to seal them. Tru-oil works great.
stringstretcher:
Thanks again Pat. Gives me some ideas since the hardest part of my cane arrow making is straightening. I guess it comes from 40 plus years in field, fita, and pro shooting, I expect way more out of my arrows than I do my bow or me. Good arrows will make anyone a better shooter. I am learning, but only time will give me the results I want...Please to any others out there willing to share their secrets on cane arrows, jump right in. And as always, pictures are worth a thousand words
DanaM:
At the yardages I shoot, they don't have to be perfect. I have some arrows you wouldn't think would ever fly but they do.
I don't do 3D courses or compete(except with myself) so my need for a perfect arrow are at a mininum.
Hillbilly:
stringstretcher, they aren't that hard to get straight with some practice. Straighten each section between the nodes individually until each one is straight, then bend the nodes to line 'em all up with each other. I like my shafts straight enough to roll across a glass-topped table without wobbling.
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