9-10 inch taper on your hunting arrows?

[Bjorn]

A friend gave me the aluminum jigs for this set up. Used my fav tapered shaft to set the angles, glued some 80 grit paper to the jig and I was able to taper a bunch of shafting in pretty short order



Do the nock tapers first and chuck the shaft into your drill.........set it at low speed

[Shan]

Good deal  

[Mike Vines]

Looks simple enough.

[David Mitchell]

You can do a very effective and simple taper job with nothing more than a 1" block plane.  Mark off the shaft at 9", 6", and 3" points.  Start to plane at the 9" mark all the way to the nock end, go all the way around the shaft, then start at the 6" mark and go all the way to the end, finally at the 3" mark and do likewise.  Take very thin shavings as you go around the shaft, and if you stain the shaft where you will be tapering it, it will help you see where you have been.  After the final shaving from the 3" mark, sand lightly to round off any areas that may need it.

I was taught this method by the late Dave Paxton, bowyer of Talon longbows, and it works very effectively.  I really like this method since I am not gifted in the use of tools at all--can you say "klutz"?--and do not even have a work bench.   :rolleyes:   But even I can get nicely tapered shafts this way.

[Steve Humphrey]

I built one like it a few years ago, only differance was I addded a stop block so you just taper till you reach the stop. Use a fine grit paper folded in a sponge to finish the job.  Saves quite a bit on the extra cost of tapering.

[dnovo]

I made a jig like this and tapered quite a few arrows for myself. I do like the tapered shafts, but have kind of decided that I can't tell the difference in shooting between them and the parallels. So for now I have quit tapering mine but I figure I'll get a hankering for some and then do some more. The jig works great except for having to replace the sandpaper.

[arrow flynn]

makes for a pretty arrow but tapered arrows dont fly any better for me .dave wallace world champ uses parallels .why ?talk to paul jalon at elite arrows.

[swampthing]

Tapered shafts penetrate better, according to Dr. Ashby.

[Orion]

Bjorn. Yep.  That's the way I do it.  I shot parallels for a lot of years and really can't tell much difference between them, but tapering does knock off about 20-30 grains from the rear of the arrow.  Look pretty cool as well.

[Bjorn]

I can't say for sure that tapered is better-but it is not any worse either! I generally give the front a little taper too that way after 3 dips the point is still 11/32.
I have a few old Cedars stashed away-and I can taper whatever I need whenever I want.