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Title: First Batch!
Post by: UMLarcher on February 05, 2017, 05:22:00 PM
After years of shooting carbon while drooling over everyone's custom wood arrows I finally made the jump and made some of my own. I just finished two sets of three for my dad's birthday.

I had some "help". He watched me rub them down with steel wool so he wanted to try it.
(http://i.imgur.com/VsYhSdE.jpg)

I made a cresting jig with a fan motor. No one will ever call it a thing of beauty but it worked as a prototype. Pardon the messy bench.
(http://i.imgur.com/qsm0FdH.jpg)

Fletching the first set. The bitzenburger jig was really easy to tune. Fletch tape is my new best friend.
(http://i.imgur.com/ONtDQAb.jpg)

Finished product.
(http://i.imgur.com/EnfIiCl.jpg)

Huge thanks to everyone who's posted here over the years. I took a lot of great information from the forum and I learned a lot from this process. Now 'm going to need him to break these ASAP so I can make more.
Title: Re: First Batch!
Post by: Zwickey-Fever on February 05, 2017, 05:29:00 PM
Looking good!!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: KyStickbow on February 05, 2017, 05:31:00 PM
They look great!
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Post by: CRM_95 on February 05, 2017, 05:42:00 PM
They turned out great!!
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Post by: Sawpilot 75 on February 05, 2017, 05:44:00 PM
They look great! Good color combo. One of my favorites!
Title: Re: First Batch!
Post by: mcgroundstalker on February 05, 2017, 06:12:00 PM
Looking Good!   :thumbsup:  X2

... mike ...   :archer2:   ...
Title: Re: First Batch!
Post by: Deno on February 05, 2017, 06:30:00 PM
Handsome helper there.  He'll be building for you soon.  Arrows look GREAT!!!!
Deno
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Post by: crazynate on February 05, 2017, 07:15:00 PM
Nice work
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Post by: katman on February 05, 2017, 08:09:00 PM
Awesome job, congrats.
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Post by: Mike Vines on February 05, 2017, 08:13:00 PM
Nicely done.  Keep him interested and he will be building his own in a few years.

As for the messy bench, I could only hope mine would be that messy.  I haven't seen the top of my bench in years.
Title: Re: First Batch!
Post by: SELFBOW19953 on February 05, 2017, 08:24:00 PM
Great looking arrows!!!  My bench has never been that organized.
Title: Re: First Batch!
Post by: on February 05, 2017, 08:39:00 PM
Those look great!

Bisch
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Post by: Sam McMichael on February 05, 2017, 09:18:00 PM
Very nice arrows.
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Post by: Orion on February 05, 2017, 09:21:00 PM
Well done.    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Post by: Gator1 on February 05, 2017, 09:21:00 PM
Nice job.  Way to go
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Post by: goobersan on February 05, 2017, 09:54:00 PM
Great looking woodies !!
I've never met an intelligent person with a clean garage or workshop. It would seem there's too much going on upstairs to bother with cleaning    :bigsmyl:
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Post by: wooddamon1 on February 06, 2017, 03:55:00 PM
:thumbsup:     :thumbsup:
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Post by: DannyBows on February 06, 2017, 06:15:00 PM
Those are beauties, nice job!    :thumbsup:
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Post by: reddogge on February 06, 2017, 06:28:00 PM
Too cute.
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Post by: Jim Brennen on February 06, 2017, 06:48:00 PM
Very Nice, Congrats
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Post by: bunyan on February 07, 2017, 07:36:00 AM
Those look nice!
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Post by: TxSportsman on February 07, 2017, 08:06:00 AM
Look excellent
Title: Re: First Batch!
Post by: UMLarcher on February 07, 2017, 08:09:00 AM
Thanks all!