Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Archeryrocks on February 13, 2018, 12:23:23 pm
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I was searching ebay the other day came across a potential alternative to the Veritas dowel cutter. This product comes from Russia and cuts dowels into 11/32 or 5/16 for both cutters it was 62 plus 6 for shipping or 33 plus 6 for shipping on one cutter. I puchas the 11/32 product and I'm waiting for it to come in the mail. I was curious if anyone has used this product?
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awesome- do you have pics or a link to it
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I'll find some pictures and a link when I get home and I'm able to use a full computer
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s://www.ebay.com/itm/112803356627?ViewItem=&item=112803356627 is the link for the product mentioned you will need to add the http in front of the link the maker also encourages "Please learn carefuly User's Manual and watch detailed video Dowel Maker Rod Cutter DRC on YouTube!" I could only find two videos but they seem to work well. when the Veritas arrow making dowel cutter could cost somewhere close to 200.00 for the 3 standard thickness arrows this may be a much less expensive option. I'll update more once I receive mine and make some test arrows.
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Is it this one?
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/94sAAOSwzJ5XbB1n/s-l400.jpg)
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i will see if i can get some pics of how my veritas was set up- it may help a bit- works a a wee bit easier than his in the video.
looks like a good tool- keep the blade razor sharp- max rpm you can get to spin it- i bought a 1/2" drill that had good speed, then a slow feed rate- i would take about 1 minute per shaft- was the ideal speed.
and as the shaft exits, you can sand it at the same time- one pass all is done!
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Please do, TSA. I've fought and fought my Veritas. I can get usable shafts out of it but most often I have a spiral cut into it or other issues.
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ok will have to wait until my 15 year old daughter gets home from school- so she can take the pics etc-
bit of a techno-peasant- sorry!
when setup they produce beautiful shafts. will see if we can figure this out!
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Is it this one?
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/94sAAOSwzJ5XbB1n/s-l400.jpg)
it is very similar but it is actually in imperial rather than metric, but it is probably from the same maker.
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IT'S HERE. I don't have a table saw right now because my motor went out on mine. But I took some shoots that I had dried out and ran the fat ends through after they were straightened. In just messing around I turned out 2 nice arrows. That spine great with my 58 lb Osage self bow at my 24 inch draw. (SH) :NN
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Pictures or it didn’t happen!
Haha seriously though, I like hand planing but it takes me ages to complete a dozen. If this setup does ok I might have to try it! Just for when it’s august 25th and I realize I’ve broke all my arrows and season is less than a week away.
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honestly I have never added pictures on here and I'm not quite sure how.
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I took some pictures this morning and I'll have to figure out how to add them on here.
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The attachments and other options button under the reply box. Usually I have to reduce my image size first. 720xwhatever
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Here are the pictures I took
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Hey it worked for one pic :) here is the second picture. I got a chance last weekend to cut some kiln dried straight grain Douglas fir into 3/8 squares and run them through. And although I'm not sure I like the wood choice the cutter worked very well. I must say it was easier to chuck the 3/8 inch piece into my lathe and run the tool along the shafts than have the tool locked in place and run the wood into the tool.
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Nice! I hope you don't mind but I've got a few questions:
What's the short dowel sticking out the top for, securing it?
Did you have to round the corners of the wood you cut, or will it handle it still square?
How close to 11/32" do you need to start with?
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It came with 2 dowels that act as handles if you are using it by hand I could have taken that out without affecting the tool. I cut my stock on a table saw to 3/8 in by 3/8 in square. Initially I was rounding over the corners but found that I didn't need to. But that was the biggest stock that would fit in the hole.
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Thanks for the info! I might have to look into getting one of these.
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Yeah it's a well built tool I had tried making a rounding plane multiple times and every time I got a product that would eat up my stock that I was potting through it. It was frustrating. And this didn't have any issues with that.
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i had the same issues with my veritas doweller years ago, having a stable setup for both in feed and out feed immediately improved the quality of the shafts.
i would think that using the lathe setup would really get the feeds super accurate :)
i put some pics on a post i did for Dieselcheese- showing my setup, it may or may not help with this cutter as well
good luck