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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: teddybear111111 on February 13, 2009, 07:31:50 pm

Title: could you pls tell me a book that will teach me to make arrows from square wood
Post by: teddybear111111 on February 13, 2009, 07:31:50 pm

pls could you tell me a book for making arrows from scrach i mean as in having to make the arrow shaft round i now how to cut nocks and add fleaching but not made my won shafts or fleachings would love to make the on my reonakemnt shows
thank you

Title: Re: could you pls tell me a book that will teach me to make arrows from square wood
Post by: Pat B on February 13, 2009, 09:01:39 pm

Teddy, Take a 3/8" x3/8" x 30" long piece of wood appropriate for arrows and remove the 4 corners with a plane.  Now you have 8 corners. Remove the 8 corners and you have 16 but your shaft is almost round. A bit of sanding will get you there. You can buy a cheap thumb plane from ACE hardware for $10 or less.
   Right off hand I can remember a book that describes the process.

Title: Re: could you pls tell me a book that will teach me to make arrows from square wood
Post by: teddybear111111 on February 14, 2009, 04:22:58 am

thank you

Title: Re: could you pls tell me a book that will teach me to make arrows from square wood
Post by: Hillbilly on February 14, 2009, 10:51:14 am

Like Pat said.  With a little practice, you can make some good shafts with the thumb plane. Jay Massey's arrowmaking chapter in the first Traditional Bowyer's Bible has some good info, but what Pat descibed is what it all boils down to. I drill a hole the same size as the diameter of the finished shafts I want (say 11/32") in a block of wood and use it as a gauge to see how mch more to plane off.

Title: Re: could you pls tell me a book that will teach me to make arrows from square wood
Post by: Barrage on February 14, 2009, 02:21:23 pm

here's a couple good methods that duffontap posted in the build alongs

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,453.0.html (http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,453.0.html)

Title: Re: could you pls tell me a book that will teach me to make arrows from square wood
Post by: hedgeapple on February 21, 2009, 01:06:12 am

Here's another site that could help.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~roblewis/Archery/makearrow.htm

Title: Re: could you pls tell me a book that will teach me to make arrows from square w
Post by: George Tsoukalas on March 01, 2009, 10:07:58 pm

Here's how I do it. Jawge
http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/shafts.html