Transformation of St. Jude's Auction item

snag · July 10, 2010, 11:55:00 AM

DesertDude was generous enough to offer a dozen ACME shafts for the auction. They are 80#-85# spined POC shafts, 23/64" tapered to 5/16". With 160gr tips they fly beautifully out of my Blacktail bow. I have seen some of you guys make arrows without the crown dip but staining the crown. I liked that so much I did these that way. I hope I did them well DesertDude!

(sorry for the poor quality of picture)

Big Ed · July 10, 2010, 12:03:00 PM

Very nice!!!

House · July 10, 2010, 12:24:00 PM

Now those are sharp there. Just gettin' back to makin' woodies myself, really like those.

Travis

DesertDude · July 10, 2010, 07:30:00 PM

Very Classy Snag, It's nice to see they went to a Great Home....

Mark

owlbait · July 10, 2010, 07:34:00 PM

Snag, WOW! Those are awesome. Nice transformation.

Stiks-n-Strings · July 10, 2010, 10:28:00 PM

Nice! Love the feather splice. I'm getting ready to try my hand at splicing when my feathers get here. Hope that turn out that good.

Mike Vines · July 10, 2010, 10:40:00 PM

I like the looks of the stained crown. Wood is made to be admired, not painted over. I might be a little biased, since I'm a finish carpenter.

glass76 · July 10, 2010, 10:44:00 PM

Nice job!

Shinken · July 10, 2010, 10:54:00 PM

Those look excellent Snag! Great work!

Shoot straight, Shinken

slivrslingr · July 11, 2010, 04:12:00 AM

Beautiful! They'll look even better with some elk blood on them!

wisconsin wood butcher · July 11, 2010, 09:27:00 AM

real nice work david the splice looks reeeaall nice!

chad graham · July 11, 2010, 09:30:00 AM

very nice! great job.

Bjorn · July 11, 2010, 05:42:00 PM

Handsome as all you fletching work snag!

yukon chuck · July 11, 2010, 08:17:00 PM

I really like the look. I think I will be triying that on my next batch. Do you tape off the shaft to get a straight line between the two stain colors or do you just eyeball it and overlap the lighter stain onto the dark?

snag · July 11, 2010, 09:12:00 PM

Glad you like the results. I do tape over the area where I want the stain line to be. I agree Grapes. I like the wood showing instead of a crown dipped with paint.

sagebrush · July 11, 2010, 09:19:00 PM

Nice job Snag. Another great idea on making arrows. I don't need anymore but I may make some anyway. I just love making them. Gary

snag · July 12, 2010, 09:49:00 AM

I'm with you on this Gary. Just love making up different combos and seeing them come together as a functional arrow.