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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Mike Vines on August 18, 2010, 09:32:00 PM
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I just crested up a dozen for deer/turkey season, and man are they looking great. I broke out my new crester tonight, and i'm trully amazed at how thin it gets the pinstripping. When my wife gets back from vacation, I will get some pictures and post them.
What I like about arrows is if you mess one up, you are out, at most, $3. If you mess up a bow, your out alot more, and not to mention more time too. Now if I could just get my wire bent just right for the burner. That's tomorrows mission.
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Grapes, I hope you get a camera for Labor Day.
Killdeer :smileystooges:
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She took it with her. I really need to get a new one. I want one that fits in a shirt pocket, and is rechargeable. If I got one of those, I would be doing all kinds of build alongs. The one we have is about 1 1/2" thick, and I know there is thinner and better out there. Anyone wanna sell one that is just laying around?
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Those aren't my gig. Got one in your cell phone?
I couldn't get a phone without a camera when I bought one last. Go figure.
Killdeer
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I don't have a camera on my phone. We got them new 2 years ago, and didn't want a camera. It was the only model that didn't have one. I just need to get to one of the big box stores, and pick up a cheap one to keep in my truck.
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Grapes, it was great meeting you at GLLI. Make a template for your fletch shape, cereal box paper works pretty good, and use it to guide you as you shape the wire. I find it easier to start at the rear and work forward. You will also learn that the wire will lengthen just a bit when it gets hot. The Young wires are cheap and by far the best way to go. The concave side goes toward the shaft.
Have fun!
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I am guilty of that addiction. When we built our house 4 years ago I put a bonus room over the garage and had exhaust fans put in so I could build arrows without fumigating myself or my wife. I have dozens stockpiled for me and have sold a ton of them on the classifieds here.
Dave
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Me!!!!!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :nono: NOT!!!!!!!!
God bless,Mudd
PS: Have I ever mentioned the fact that "I hate building arrows!" Ha Ha Ha...lol
BTW I'm writing down all the names of you folks that say your addicted..lol Future contacts...lol
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Not addicted but in the thralls of finishing the fletching on 8 dozen for buddies, and their kids Soon it will be at least two dozen more for their wives. Does that count?
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Originally posted by Ragnarok Forge:
Not addicted but in the thralls of finishing the fletching on 8 dozen for buddies, and their kids Soon it will be at least two dozen more for their wives. Does that count?
Absolutely
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I do not like making them fixing them ect just shooting them.I only make them up because I destroy lots of them .
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I was, but now I have so many that I had to quit or move to the porch.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v103/scattershot/IMGP1947.jpg)
each group represents a dozen, and this ain't all of them.
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Hi I'm mysticguido, and I'm Addicted to making arrows.
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I just set up my new (to me) feather burner, and this weekend I pick up my feathers, so as long as my wife brings home the camera, I'm gonna have some good pictures for all of you. I just dipped my shafts in clear, and I'm just amazed at how thin that crester allowed me to get my pin stripping. I had to stand there an admire them for a minute before I dipped them.
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I do enjoy building arrows, don't think you would say its an addiction...yet.
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Grapes, DON'T BURN FEATHERS IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!
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Guilty as charged! I am addicted to arrow building.
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The smell of cedar, the way the grain picks up the stain, and ooh Duco. I hope it's not the smell of the glue that keeps me building arrows.
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Originally posted by SCATTERSHOT:
Grapes, DON'T BURN FEATHERS IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!
I must have heard that atleast 2 dozen times in the last couple weeks when I tell guys I'm gonna burn my own to save money, not to mention I will get fletchings for my boys off of my full length feathers.
I did head everyones advice, and went outside to get my burner set up last night, but due to the tonado siren going off, I ended up doing it in the garage, and holy crap did it ever stink. I know I would of had a spot reserved on the couch for a week had I done it in the house. It was a kinda neat having the tornado siren sounding off while I was doing it though. I'm supposed to pick up my feathers this Saturday, so hopefully I will be shooting them come Sunday afternoon.
I have been glueing feathers onto arrows for quite a few years, and just recently a good friend got me fully indulged in the whole process (from raw shafts to finished product), and I am so glad he did. To me, it's very therapudic.
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You should have stayed outside. The winds would have taken the smell to St Clair. :p
We watched the storm skirt north if us...listening to the same sirens.
But this thread is getting boring, WITHOUT PICTURES!!!
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I too am addicted to making arrows. There is so much you can do with them.
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I got addicted this past year and was buying arrows like they were not going to make anymore.And the wife was madddddd.I was at the point that I was going to have to live in the back yard in a hut made out of arrows. :scared: Archery addictions consume me to fast. :archer2:
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Definitely me since moving to woods. I've made 3 dozen arrows since buying my first 6 from Fletcher a month ago.
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p65/FadedGlory77/Arrows/Chunduu8-1b-1.jpg)
Guess I'll man up and post a pic. I make mine really simple - right down to my ghetto-cresting.
If I make them too pretty I won't shoot them. These are 80-85 Chundoo shafts.
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I have about seven or eight dozen under my belt now and am starting to find excuses to build more. I even crown and crest aluminum. I'm probably a lost cause now!
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I am addicted too, with wooden arrows of course (cedar actually but I want to try laminated birch for max weight).
A very simple color choice and cresting
the color of the feathers and shaft from nock to about 10" gives an indication on the type of point
a 1" white stripe with a thin red stripe in the midle gives me an instand bandwidth check.
And I use self nock and linen string to fasten the nock and the feathers (and only linen oil to protect my shafts)
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Originally posted by SCATTERSHOT:
Grapes, DON'T BURN FEATHERS IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!
Stinks up the garage pretty badly too! :saywhat:
I wouldn't say I'm addicted, but I enjoy it. Just something about shooting arrows you have built yourself.
Frank