surewood fir    :D  

Man those are gunna be nice  

Looks like the makings for some beautiful arrows.

Dang Rob those are sweet. Did I read someware you use sharpies for the cresting.

doug77

Very sweat Rob,Do you ever use a flat finish on any of your arrows?

Building arrows like those is good medicine!!!

Come on spring!!!!    

Awesome!!!!

Rob, those look great! Mine aren't going to be as fancy but, Surewoods with a light Walnut stain.
 

Beautiful Rob. Working on a 1/2 doz myself.  Tell us about your choices for stain/finish/cresting if you would.

Classy!

Like them, very cool looking!

Nice looking arrows Rob!   The silver metallic fines in the crest really set them off!

those are sweeeet , splice some feathers and fletch em up!

Great looking arrows there Rob.  Love the colors

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Rob I like those top ones with the orange cap.  

tw, seen yer arras b4, they're sweeties!    

i use water based aniline dye to stain some of the shafts - it comes in powder form and i mix to the depth of color i prefer.

dye goes on bare wood first, using masking tape to separate the uncolored shaft wood.  after drying, it gets 0000 steel wooled, cleaned with a paper towel, wiped with minwax gloss wipe-on polyu.  progress through 3 or 4 wipes of clear w/0000 wooling between coats.  for a dull finish, wool the last coat.

cresting is done exclusively with chisel tip sharpies and a pentel silver pen.  they dry up pretty hard and are left as is, no clear overcoat.  i don't like to spend a lotta time on finishing and it takes only 1.5 days for me to complete 2 to 3 dozen shafts, ready for fletching and pointing up.

make up some woodies, kill some kritters with 'em, it's a good thing!   :D

4x4 low profile banana cut feathers maybe goose.Am I close Rob

definitely, the red caps will get white banana 4-fletch, relatively hi-profile, chopped.

the rest will be a mix of processed and natural gray bar turks, and some natural gray goose, some chopped some burnt.  the shapes will be banana and a special trad design i'm working on.  some 4 fletch, maybe some 3 fletch (heresey!!!!).

that's part of the fun of arrow building, making up designs and colors as you work the materials.

woodsman, tusker concorde and eclipse broadheads.

plus, i love the smell of burning feathers in the evening!   :D

when i saw first set(the red n green) my heart rate pic up n my stomach lightened.  those things are atrractive without fletchin's on em.

QuoteOriginally posted by HcSmitty:
when i saw first set(the red n green) my heart rate pic up n my stomach lightened.  those things are atrractive without fletchin's on em.

heheheh, i like them the least.  my faves are the amber capped ones.