1st home-made arrow

[Oneshot1Kill]

Summary: Made my own arrow. It works. I'm only 16 and have no tools really. You can read the rest or look at the pictures. Also, sorry if this is already posted. My computer keeps saying it is.

So I got tired of trying to talk my parents into letting me buy the arrow making kit i wanted(which included a fletching jig), so in shop at school I decided to make some arrows. Took this purple and white board my teacher said was a kind of cedar, chop sawed it to 29.75 inches(wanted 30, but whatever). Than i put it to the table saw, cut it into 3/8x3/8. Cut up three of em that size. After that i put the worst looking one into a bar clamp length-wise. than clamped that into the table clamp to secure the soon to be arrow. I than used a hand planer to shave down the 4 sides to 8. Than attempted at making that 16. By the way, you need to lay a board down under the arrow shaft in the bar clamp, or else it bends and pops out, shoots like a rocket. Anyways, than i grabbed some sandpaper but after some very unnecessary jokes and comments, i just drilled a hole into a board, put the sand paper around the edges and sanded it that way. Not as many jokes were made. Did that to all 3. Than i stained em and lacquer'd em. Sanded em a tiny bit to make them smooth the next day. Than while out hunting/mudding with a bud saw the feather on the ground(jumped out of the truck to grab it and my friend nearly died. Started askin if i wanted to hug the trees too.  ). I then separated the feather into 4, 3.5" inch parts. Than dipped the tip of 3 of em into some glue and placed em in the spots i thought looked good for em. Found some of my moms yarn string stuff and starting from the feather tip wrapped down. Made the nock with my leathermans file blade. Than I sanded a makeshift point onto it. Went out and from 20yds with my recurve hit almost a bullseye.  10 shots all in that same area. Time to find some feathers and make a couple more!

[tazz]

good job should be proud of yourself now maybe mom and dad will see your seriuos and buy you a jig for christmas great job keep it up

[carver52]

Great job.  If it works and your happy with it then have fun.  Now what about a self bow to go with the arrow?

[fair-chase]

That's awesome. Great work.

[carpsniperg2]

lookin good

[GlennGTR]

You can buy tools to form the ends for field points and nocks. You will get a lot more life out of the arrow that way. You might want to have mom take you to the store and buy a copy of Traditional Bow hunter and Primitive Archery magazines. Lots of really good info in there to get you pointed into the right direction. You did one thing very right. ....you went with a recurve bow instead of one of those cabled, wheeled, lazer sighted, stabalized arrow flining machines. Your still young so you still have the strenght to draw a mans bow. Keep fit and healthy for the rest of your days and you will never have to buy a handicapers bow.

[ribka]

Nice job.
Is that a cougar track by the arrow fletching? 

[PacificNWhunter]

Great job!

[Snapshot]

OneShot1,
Outstanding! Keep it up.

[Instinct]

Beautiful, lot better than I could do 

[BushMonster]

Nicely Done!  Keep it up

[patton1]

Awesome!

[Ihuntelk2]

  Thats great...looks good and it flies!!! Right on!

[Lowedog]

Very cool! 

[champ41]

Nice job.
Is that a cougar track by the arrow fletching?  

Seriously he is in his garage/shop... enless he has a pet cougar..  

[halflife65]

Nice job.
Is that a cougar track by the arrow fletching?  

Seriously he is in his garage/shop... enless he has a pet cougar..  

   um...yeah.

Great job with the arrow!  Nice work and looking forward to hearing what you come up with next.