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Title: Wood arrows....no way....not me!
Post by: Grizz 53 on March 15, 2007, 11:36:00 AM
Thats right,I said it,and I believed it till I got my hands on a good straight piece of hard maple. It all started when I made a cherry dowel for a bow rack I was building for my brother-in-law. I built a jig by cutting a v in a piece of 1x6 then I ripped a piece of cherry 1/2x1/2,laid it in the jig, took my hand power planer and knocked of the 4 corners,chucked it up in my 1/2 inch drill....hand full of 50 grit sandpaper and about 5 min later and I had a perfectly round dowel. Thats when the light went off,so I got a piece of hard maple,ripped it to 3/8x3/8 and the next thing I knew I had an arrow shaft that was perfect. So now I've been bitten by tha trad bug. Who would have thunk it. I'm even thinking about shootin a deer with that thing. Anyway I was kinda hard on the old trads the other day about the traditional thing so Grey Buffalo I'll be thinking about you while I'm eatin this crow! LOL
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Post by: Bowspirit on March 15, 2007, 11:56:00 AM
A hard maple dowel, huh...what you've got there is an arrow material that'll outlast almost all other woods, aluminum, and even alot of carbons as far as durability goes...
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Post by: TexMex on March 15, 2007, 11:58:00 AM
There ain't nothing like it!!
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Post by: Grizz 53 on March 15, 2007, 12:27:00 PM
The real kick is I work at a lumber yard. I have an endless supply of tha stuff.
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Post by: Rico on March 15, 2007, 12:54:00 PM
That shaft will be a special critter getter if you choose to use it. Good Luck
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Post by: alligatordond on March 15, 2007, 02:49:00 PM
Sounds like good mojo to me
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Post by: the Ferret on March 15, 2007, 03:24:00 PM
If you hand plane the 4 edges to 8, then the 8 edges to 16, the shaft will be almost round and take very little sanding.
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Post by: Grizz 53 on March 15, 2007, 03:47:00 PM
Your right about that Mark. I'm gona have to work on that. My jig is not tweeked out yet and that little hand planer is a wood eatin machine. I took to much off the first two arrows I tried so I just let the 50 grit take up the slack. My buddy Bone was so impressed with the one arrow I did he's already working on an idea for something a little more sofisticated.
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Post by: Frank V on March 15, 2007, 05:29:00 PM
Wood Rules!!!!!!!!! Frank  :clapper:
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Post by: **DONOTDELETE** on March 15, 2007, 05:35:00 PM
As my 92 yr. old grandmother said about grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, "Don't knock until you try it!"
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Post by: String Cutter on March 15, 2007, 07:06:00 PM
I ain't never tried maple. But, ash is awsome.
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Post by: Roy from Pa on March 15, 2007, 08:16:00 PM
Made these from sitka spuce 3/8th square stock with a hand plane and sand paper.. Straightest arrows I ever seen..

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