Making your own shafts

[Stone Knife]

I have been getting into arrow building including compressing cedar shafting. I have been toying around with the idea of making my own shafting. I would love to see your setups for turning down your own shafting, and see the different woods you use.

[George Tsoukalas]

I hand plane my shafts. Info on my site. Jawge
http://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni/archer.html

[Jim now in Kentucky]

I got the idea for my doweling machine from this site:
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=53

I refined it some. My router is attached to the underside of a chunk of flat aluminum. Instead of wooden blocks, I made blocks from alumninum. Bored the blocks in my lathe and made interchangeable steel bushings of different sizes for the output block.

I get perfect dowels every time with spruce or hardwood.