DesertDude was generous enough to offer a dozen ACME shafts for the auction. They are 80#-85# spined POC shafts, 23/64" tapered to 5/16". With 160gr tips they fly beautifully out of my Blacktail bow. I have seen some of you guys make arrows without the crown dip but staining the crown. I liked that so much I did these that way. I hope I did them well DesertDude!
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Very nice!!!
Now those are sharp there. Just gettin' back to makin' woodies myself, really like those.
Travis
Very Classy Snag, It's nice to see they went to a Great Home....
Mark
Snag, WOW! Those are awesome. Nice transformation. :thumbsup:
Nice! Love the feather splice. I'm getting ready to try my hand at splicing when my feathers get here. Hope that turn out that good.
I like the looks of the stained crown. Wood is made to be admired, not painted over. I might be a little biased, since I'm a finish carpenter.
Nice job!
Those look excellent Snag! Great work!
Shoot straight, Shinken
Beautiful! They'll look even better with some elk blood on them!
real nice work david the splice looks reeeaall nice!
very nice! great job.
Handsome as all you fletching work snag! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I really like the look. I think I will be triying that on my next batch. Do you tape off the shaft to get a straight line between the two stain colors or do you just eyeball it and overlap the lighter stain onto the dark?
Glad you like the results. I do tape over the area where I want the stain line to be. I agree Grapes. I like the wood showing instead of a crown dipped with paint.
Nice job Snag. Another great idea on making arrows. I don't need anymore but I may make some anyway. I just love making them. Gary
I'm with you on this Gary. Just love making up different combos and seeing them come together as a functional arrow.