Yesterday I opened a box of cedar shafts that had just arrived from Big Jim. Ahhhhhhh. Smelled like I always remembered it. Nice looking shafts too.
Aluminum has taken over my life for the last 10 years and I recently realized just how much I missed making and shooting wood. I took a little inventory and ordered what I needed.
This weekend is to be snow/freezing rain/cold. I do believe a nice fire in the wood stove and fletching up my cedars is in order.
Sounds like a great way to pass some time during that sort of weather.
Like Snag ( Wilderness Custom Arrows ) says " You wouldn't use a bobber and worms with a split bamboo fly rod , so why shoot anything other than wood from your trad bow . "
Sounds like a great idea. I might do the same with a few dozen cedar shafts I have laying around. I love the smell too
Yes, nothing like the smell of a freshly broken cedar arrow.
Just about the only thing I like about cedar arrows is the neat smell when they get broken!!!!
Bisch
Yep
Over the next couple months Im making some wood arrows and a back quiver.
Good way to shake the off season blues
A few years ago I heard a couple of guys putting down my cedar arrows. One had a short draw like me and was shooting full length carbons, he had a lot of arrow hanging out there. Much to their pleasure I clipped a branch and shattered an arrow. I handed them each a piece as a trophy. They were behind us in the order. I watched them sniffing the cedar and sharing the sniffing with others. They each bought a dozen cedar shafts from a vendor, Footed Shaft, after the round.
It is the best smell
I get a little crazy over the smell of the feather burner as well i know that is weird guys but its true
Not as nice as the cedar !!
I keep the cedar shavings and throw them on the fire. Gotta love that smell.
Deno
Ive really took a liking to wood arrows for some reason. Just adds another element to the whole deal. Sounds like a great weekend!
It's odd that you should bring this up. I lost my sense of smell about a decade ago, yet just last night a guy snapped a cedar arrow near be and I caught a brief whiff of cedar scent. It smelled as awesome as I remembered it and I appreciated it more than I ever had. One of life's simple pleasures!
I hope you guys aren't sniffing the glue too !!!
QuoteOriginally posted by Tim Finley:
I hope you guys aren't sniffing the glue too !!!
Staining, sealing, and fletching in an unventilated basement bow room hasn't hurt me yet. I mean, I don't think it has. Or maybe it did??? Heck I don't remember. What was the question?
There are three things that go together well: Fletching arrows, Metallica, and PBR.
I use stained Watco oil, to finish and seal shafts. It dries slow and does not have much smell, but you got to watch what you do with the rags. a couple of years ago i tossed them in a pile in the drive way intending to hang them on the line to dry before throwing them away. The pile was smoldering when I went to hang them up. Duco makes my eyes water and nose run.
I have a mono-fletcher. Used to be Glue a feather, drink a beer, glue the next feather drink a beer. repeat till the arrows or I was done. I started using fletching tape, took a lot of fun out of it
Yeah, tape took all the fun out of making arrows.
Keng, LMAO....
QuoteOriginally posted by keng:
Used to be Glue a feather, drink a beer, glue the next feather drink a beer. repeat till the arrows or I was done.
Yep....I remember those days well!
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Well, I spent a nice evening with a wood fire, Alice Cooper, The Who, Aerosmith, and several PBR's. I got my cedars tapered and stained. I also fletched up some oak dowels and fixed a bunch of broken stumpers.
It was a good night.
That sounds like an evening well spent, and we must be from the same generation, only instead of PBR being an old coal miner I grew up with Genny. Get down your way once in a while when fishing the Q or the Yough.