Tom; Vic is the person that i purchased my Swager from . any idea as to his whereabouts now? Vic also hunted Moose with VERY light Bows and heavy arrows. Nice man.

Vic was a great guy with a huge trad archery shop near Grand Rapids. I have no idea of his whereabouts. I think he retired. I was hoping he might show up here one day. Your swager is top notch.

Man do I remember Vic's.  I only went in there a few times though.   They closed down my sophomore year at GV.  

I'm still very interested in these.  Thinking about getting a dozen Gamegetter 500's to play around with.

This is the kind of thread that just kills me.  I read it a couple of days ago.  Now I have this little voice in my head saying "you need a dozen swaged 2020s to compare to the carbons you are shooting".  The voice is going to gnaw away at me until I have spent more time and money than I should messing with  aluminum arrows again, repeating something I probably did 25 years ago.  I probably need professional help...

QuoteOriginally posted by last arrow:
This is the kind of thread that just kills me.  I read it a couple of days ago.  Now I have this little voice in my head saying "you need a dozen swaged 2020s to compare to the carbons you are shooting".  The voice is going to gnaw away at me until I have spent more time and money than I should messing with  aluminum arrows again, repeating something I probably did 25 years ago.  I probably need professional help...

This is funny!  I thought I was the only one that had that problem  

TTT

Sergio - Thanks for the post with the pics. I look forward to the tutorial as well to see it in action. Please post a link, if not posted here.

I have a local machinist who would love this sort of project. Not looking to steal anyones patented design, but they seem to be out of stock everywhere else.

I bought 2 dozen Classics from RJ archery back in the early 1990's.  I still have 8 left.  I found a couple dozen Classics a couple years ago along with a couple dozen Legacy shafts.  I dropped them off at The Footed Shaft to have swaged.  I should be set for another couple decades or so now.

Can someone please post a pic of some swages shafts and some with the points in?

I'm having trouble trying to picture exactly what it would look like.

Thank you!!!

It looks like the point taper on a wood arrow. And then you use glue on points.

got it...was picturing the end of the shaft compressed where a screw in point could be inserted and glued in.  didn't understand the advantage of doing something like that.

Now I get it!

Footed shaft a sponsor here stages aluminum skin.