Arrow Stand - Pics.

[Marty Wiseman]

A couple of months ago I was over at my friend Tim's telling him I'd like to make an arrow stand for this new hobby I took up.  I explained that most bow and arrow racks hang horizontal on the wall, but that I didn't have enough room on my walls at home to hang a horizontal 62" longbow, so I was thinking about making a seperate arrow stand, and then something to hang my bow vertically on the wall.  Tim has a woodshop in his basement, is good at woodworking and, being one for a challenge, started brainstorming idea's.  I explained to him what I wanted in the arrow stand.  Something to hold my arrows and a drawer to hold my stuff.  Tim came up with a basic design, grabbed an old wormy piece of walnut he had laying in his basement, and in our spare time we went to work.  The idea's began as soon as we started working on it.  First I ordered an arrow head I intended to use as a knob for the drawer, but then I found some antler burr drawer knobs on the net and decided I liked those better.  More cutting, sanding, etc.  Then we got the idea to inlay the arrowhead,  first into the bow hanger, then we decided as the arrow stand progressed to inlay it into it instead.  I got on the internet and found this poly resin stuff that is clear and starts out liquid, then turns to hard clear plastic when it's done  (you may have seen paperweights made out of the stuff)  So we routered out a basic shape into the top and inlayed the arrow head.  It was many hours of cutting, sanding....sanding.....oh yeah did I say sanding? (hardwoods ugggg)  and staining, varnish etc.  We also took a bandsaw and cut out part of a deer antler....mounted on the top portion so I could hang my shooting glove and arm guard from the tip of a tine.  Anyway enough description,  here are some pic's so you can see how it turned out.





Top showing arrowhead and deer antler,




Finally, here is what it looks like in my house.....(yes the pink carpet was in the house when I bought it, lol)


That's about it....we still have to get another board to make the bow hanger.  Gonna use walnut again, and use antler to make what the bow hangs from.  I'll post some more pics when we get that part done.      

[Leo L.]

That's awesome.   And it looks great there in your house next to the guns and the bow.

[Chris Surtees]

Now that is nice!

[Curtis Haden]

         Pretty Arra's too!!!      

Didn't remember the carpet being so, well, you know... PINK!    

[Tim Ceplina]

Hehe it is pretty carpet. That arrow stand sure does make it look better! Nice job!!!

[madness522]

Very nice!  And thats a man room right there.  Takes a real man to own pink.

[mogw99]

I always knew you had a thing for pink!!!!


Jeff

[Wannabe1]

Man that is freak'n sharp!! I love Traditional style decorations. I would love to have a hunting cabin all decked out with that sort of furniture.

Nice work! Wish I had your talent. I couldn't build something out of popsickle sticks if my life depended on it.

[JEFF B]

nice work man!!

[GingivitisKahn]

Very nice looking.  That's some cool furniture right there.  

You don't leave that bow standing on its lower limb often do you?  I know you're going to make a bow hanger for it but you may want to find a way to store it lying flat or something until then.

[bowmofo]

A stand for the arrows (lots of quality time spent)   the stereo on the floor (priceless)  

[J. Holden]

Very cool idea.  How nice to have a buddy that is talented and willing to donate his time.  Gotta love a good friendship.

Jeremy

[Marty Wiseman]

Thanks for the comments! I stood my bow up there as sort of a temporary thing, mostly to get it in the photograph somewhere near the arrow stand.  I'm hoping to hang the bow on the wall just to the right of where the arrowstand sits.  As for the stereo setting on the floor, well thats over at my friends house and he's remodeling his living room lol!  If you think my pink carpet's bad.....you should have seen the carpet that was in Tim's house!!!

[tradtusker]

looks great some good ideas there!      

[John3]

Great work, even better idea. Thanks for the pics.


JDS III

[BMN]

Very cool!