Well my man-cave is a mess & I have accumulated a lot of finished arrows and shafts, just wondering what you all do out there to store them nice & neat & somewhat orderly. Pictures are nice, I like pictures :D
.........isn't the whole idea of a "mancave" to be disorderly!!!! :laughing: Please don't burst my bubble.
I must have about fifty or so pairs of vintage exotic skin cowboy boots they work great. I have lots of brass and copper vases all over the place they work good. If I get a chance I will post a picture of a few of these awesome artsy eagles talons that grasp a bakers dozen. Just gona have to work on those pictures for ya. Mater of fact there are arrows jutting out of everywhere around here..I must not be that orderly either.
4"PVC pipe with a PVC flange on bottom. One of these days I will learn the photo trick!!
5gallon bucket , pvc pipe, or in a quiver. The 5gallon bucket is nice because you can see all your arrows in one place and know what you do and don't have. I put the quivers and things with the arrows inside them into the 5gallon bucket but you can put arrows right into it.
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Plus I have arrows in various quivers,on my work bench,a few here,a few there....
5gal buckets with cardboard tubes. I have half a dozen buckets set up this way. One bucket is for flu-flus (around 6doz), another with my wifes arrows, another with stumpers, one with my woodies, one with my alum, and one for my son in laws arrows.
I usually store all mine in arrow boxxes, labeled! and the arrows I use at the time are in back quivers!
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I want my wife to see these pictures, im not that bad after all.
Tommy
I have a few of these....
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I used to just keep them in arrow tubes but if the tube is kept horizontal then the fletchings would get squashed.
You can get more details on that stand here...
http://www.archers-review.com/archery-kit/custom-arrow-stand-by-wac-archery-products
They are made in the UK, but I'm pretty sure that they can be flat packed and shipped anywhere in the world.
A little left over pine shelf stock, a drill motor, glue and some time to kill :)
Phone picture sorry......
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This is an arrow box I made for storing arrows.
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This is an example of one you can buy on a bid site.
This is a system that has take years to get just right.
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QuoteOriginally posted by David Atkinson:
This is a system that has take years to get just right.
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David, you are my hero. I have a similar system but your attention to detail is quite evident!
Kudos! :notworthy:
Joe
pvc tubing overhead... all sizes of alum and wood shaft appropriate to my weight range of 22# to 45#, mostly all with a dozen made up, so I can select appropriately for each new bow.
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(The geared Shay locomotive and a loooong flatcar move the arrows from where I put points and nocks on around to the other side of the room where I put fletching on.... 8^)
This was made by my father in law 40 years ago.
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5 gal buckets. I hate organized people !
Darn - some of you guys are so organized!
I have some cardboard tubes I duct taped together so they stand up alone. Try to sort them by weight/type etc as much as possible.
I have the one tube full of broken arrows I save for spare parts. Anyone save arrows for spare parts?
sam
this works great for me. my buddy showed me. go to h.d or a lighting store an get egg crate lighting grid it comes what ever size you want the squares 1/4 inch build a wood rack an set the grid in the top an bottom .a 2ft x 2ft will hold over 100 arrows fletchings stay crisp an stright.good luck
It's the little things. I'm not showing my storage "system" because there isn't one. But now I have some ideas at least. I like the drilled holes and all in a row, but the 20 Litre pail(metric in Canada) has a certain appeal.
This is about all I can fit into one picture without moving a lot of other stuff. I also keep them in quivers, boxed dozens, whatever boots don't get put away in the closet, and a plastic waste basket that has a metal grid system in it.
What works fairly well with fletched shafts is the white sections of vinyl conductor pipe in the picture...six sections attached to one wooden base. I've made up 7 of them, which gives me 42 individual tubes that easily hold a dozen each without crowding.
The real fun is going to be packing all my gear for the next move a few hundred miles away. But, then I'll have more room to arrange things more to my liking...and get to use it more. Rick.
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All those swaged nocks is a beautimous sight!
I just dispersed a horde of shafts into various nooks throughout the house. There is so much clutter, and hundreds of shafts, my poor husband has no clue when something else makes its way in here.
I used to store arrows in their quivers. They got full, so the pails came out. And cardboard tubes, trash cans and vases. Vases warp arrows.
They are standing in corners, carefully stashed in cardboard arrow boxes or MTM plastic cases. All my shelves along the wall have discrete stacks of arrows that were once segregated by spine and condition, but have intermarried now, and become a great melting pot of wood, carbon and aluminum pillars of society. The fixit piles are as big or bigger than the ready-to-go piles. I gotta sit down and rig up all these busted ones for kids to lose at ATAR or something. Literally, there is no place in this apartment that does not have an arrow in it. Well, maybe the shower and the cat box, but that would be easy to fix.
Killdeer :help:
Here's a workbench I made out of barnwood with a place underneath to store about 18 doz shafts. Now if I had 18 doz shafts.
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I love that bench!
You re working on your shaft deficit problem, though. Wait a bit... you won't have a horizontal surface to work on anywhere!
Killdeer~ I have a workbench, somewhere under all that... :rolleyes:
some very impressive arrow racks there!
I love these kinds of threads!!!! I save links to them so that every time my wife says I have too many arrows or something along those lines...I can pull this up and show her, that I'm in the vast minority by having only a few dozen arrows!!!! :D
5 gal bucket. Bucket was free of course.
My friend made me a nice wooden rack using a lighting fixture top that has 3/8" squares to hold the arrows. It is real easyto move around and will hold 12 dozen arrows.
Dick your work shop is always net.
David A. I had to look at that picture twice I thought someone posted a picture of my arrow box.
.....stabow
I am surprised no one has posted a pic of a deer with an arrow in it.... :rolleyes: :biglaugh:
I do a bunch like this, along with arrows in quivers and an actual arrow rack in the house. Works pretty good. Got the idea here a long time ago in another post.
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Wow, some really nice racks and storage systems here.
I have no pictures, but I use magnets to hold my arrows (at least the ones with points attached) this keeps them straight as possible (might as well use gravity....its still free..for now)
The magnets are screwed to the bottom of my floor joists, at the back of my work bench. (Basement shop)
These magnets are off of aerial mounts, and will hold about 8-10 arrows each.
I don't recommend using this "system" for broadheads, as if one should fall, and you are in its path...well, just don't use this for B'heads.
Yeah, shaft deficit disorder. :help:
I have a rack my dad made me in 1966 for my display arrows and broadhead arrows but most field points are in 5 gallon buckets with 3" pvc dividers.