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looking for dowel rod arrow tutorial
woodsman1031:
I wish I didnt have to work tonight. I am so tempted to run to town and get some more dowels and experiment some more >:D. If I do I wont take a nap before work and I will be miserable.
I am so glad all of yall put your personal findings and information on this site for everyone to benefit from!
Tommy
JW_Halverson:
HaHa, yur hooked now!
jape:
Just a suggestion, from a painful (and dangerous) mistake of my own, please bind below the nock as a split there can cause an arrow explosion that can in worst case bounce back to the eye. I love making arrows and I do all my fletching by hand without a jig, only takes a bit of practice, I use a thin brass hinge lined with cardboard and some small clamps to hold it in place on the arrow while it dries or tie the pointy ends of the feathers in place first, binding here saves cuts from sharp quills too.
woodsman1031:
Jape,
How do I bind it? Do you mean wrapping it in something like artificial sinew and super gluing it?
Thanks
JW_Halverson:
Artificial sinew has a lot of wax in it and from my experience doesn't take glue very well. If you don't have real sinew you can also use plain old sewing thread. Start just ahead of the nock and wrap about a quarter inch of the shaft. If you lay a little elmer's glue down where you are gonna wrap it helps hold the thread in place. Super glue over the wraps once the glue is dry will hold her down nicely. That's one way help prevent the notch from splitting down the shaft.
It also helps to cut your nocks perpendiculat to the grain running across the end of the shaft. Grain goes this way: | then you put your nock thru this way: -- That way they end up like this: +. Think of the bowstring as a splitting axe coming down on a peice of firewood. If you are making firewood, match the axe to the grain for best results. If you are making arrows go across the grain.
Even a crappy bow (like mine) perform better with a good arrow. I try to build fun bows and serious arrows.
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