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Title: Help ID these vintage arrows.
Post by: ncheels on January 15, 2013, 10:32:00 AM

I have 2 sets of fiberglass arrows.  They are a darker brown but the only thing printed on them is "8".  From the pics, can you give me any info?  I have microflites that say "microflite".  Are these Duraflites?  Thanks for some feedback.

   (http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n591/rmgarcia30/Vintage/ForSale006.jpg)
   (http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n591/rmgarcia30/Vintage/ForSale007.jpg)

   (http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n591/rmgarcia30/Vintage/ForSale001.jpg)
   (http://i1141.photobucket.com/albums/n591/rmgarcia30/Vintage/ForSale002.jpg)

Title: Re: Help ID these vintage arrows.
Post by: raghorn on January 15, 2013, 11:34:00 AM

Possibly  Fleetwood. If you look real close back from the tip there is a line that angles back to the middle and then angles toward the nock end. Sometime s it can be seen and then other times.....
The Fleetwoods were a sheet of fiberglass that was wrapped around a mandrel.

Title: Re: Help ID these vintage arrows.
Post by: Blackhawk on January 15, 2013, 12:36:00 PM

Ron, I have some similar to those brown ones, but mine are a dark green and with only the number (either 6 or 9) .  Were they made in different colors?  Do you determine the correct number?

Title: Re: Help ID these vintage arrows.
Post by: ncheels on January 15, 2013, 02:12:00 PM

Thanks Ron.  I'll check when I get home.

Title: Re: Help ID these vintage arrows.
Post by: raghorn on January 15, 2013, 02:57:00 PM

I don't have a chart for Dura glass like I thought I did nor an arrow.So ncheels and Blackhawk could be correct.The Fleetglas was classified by the ID

glas-lite was available in many colors and classified by Alpha letters as was Herters Farbenglas. MJ log and Gordon was done by numbers, either a single digit or HS55( hunting shaft 55#)
Graphlex was by color.

I do have some Micro flights that were stored in an attic with part of the shaft out of the box. That part got a darker brown from the heat/or UV(?) so the shaft was two toned.

Title: Re: Help ID these vintage arrows.
Post by: Danny Rowan on January 15, 2013, 03:31:00 PM

I had some MJ log glass arrows that looked like that.

Title: Re: Help ID these vintage arrows.
Post by: reddogge on January 15, 2013, 03:36:00 PM

They look exactly like a couple of Dura-flight arrows I have downstairs but my numbers wore off. They are still in use as flu-flus.

Title: Re: Help ID these vintage arrows.
Post by: Cody Roiter on January 16, 2013, 11:27:00 PM

Guys, i think they are the Olympic glass arrows Glen st. Charles sold out of his archery shop, i have one signed by Glen he gave me,The arrow i have look like a dead ringer to the shafts in the photos.. Glen told me he developed his Olympic glass shafts.

Title: Re: Help ID these vintage arrows.
Post by: ncheels on January 17, 2013, 01:19:00 PM

Cody,
Can you give us some history of Glen St. Charles and his shop?  These arrows are quite vintage I was told, but the elder gentleman did not remember where specifically he got them from.  Only that he bought them new long ago.