Post by: Oneshot1Kill on November 12, 2010, 04:27:08 PM
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. :chuckle: ). 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. :IBCOOL: :IBCOOL: 10 shots all in that same area. Time to find some feathers and make a couple more!
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Post by: ribka on November 12, 2010, 08:23:28 PM
Is that a cougar track by the arrow fletching? :)
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Post by: Snapshot on November 13, 2010, 11:21:03 AM
Outstanding! Keep it up.
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Post by: champ41 on December 08, 2010, 10:56:51 AM
Nice job.
Is that a cougar track by the arrow fletching? :)
Seriously he is in his garage/shop... enless he has a pet cougar.. :dunno:
Post by: halflife65 on December 15, 2010, 11:51:14 AM
Nice job.
Is that a cougar track by the arrow fletching? :)
Seriously he is in his garage/shop... enless he has a pet cougar.. :dunno:
:chuckle: um...yeah.
Great job with the arrow! Nice work and looking forward to hearing what you come up with next.