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Offline lenador

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Questions about making my own hardwood arrow inserts.
« on: October 29, 2014, 08:43:16 pm »
 So now that I've finished my first bow I'm itching to make some of my own arrows. A few of my buddies are giving me all of thier Canadian goose wings in barter for some decorative arrows. I figured making some decorative arrows would be good practice for making functional ones. Plus now.I have more Canadian goose feather than I know what to do with.
 On to the questions... I want to make my own inserts for the arrow tips and nocks but I've confused my self in the process. Basically I figured that the nocks and such would run with the grain but then I was thinking what would be the best way to prevent it from splitting.
 So if anyone has an answer to whether these should be made with or against the grain I would be grateful but I'd be even happier if someone could  point me to some information on it so I could read it myself.
 I tried to search for the info but it is kind of a hard thing to look for. Mostly all I found were people  trying to sell pre made inserts or the nifty nocker tool.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Questions about making my own hardwood arrow inserts.
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2014, 09:55:39 pm »
Cut the nocks across the grain. You can add a sinew or thread wrap to the nock end and point end to prevent the shaft from splitting.
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: Questions about making my own hardwood arrow inserts.
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2014, 10:02:00 pm »
What Pat B said plus google self arrows or primitive arrows, lots of info. ;)
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Offline jeffp51

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Re: Questions about making my own hardwood arrow inserts.
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2014, 10:39:45 pm »
especially the bamboo garden stake arrows.  Works almost like magic.  Hands down best bang for your buck.  You think shooting your own bow is cool, wait till you do it with arrows you made yourself that cost you less than 2 bucks apiece.  When I was getting back in to archery, I priced the carbon things or even the premade cedar jobs and I about had a heart attack.  then I found the bamboo build along and all my problems were solved--but the addiction got much, much worse. . .
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Re: Questions about making my own hardwood arrow inserts.
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2014, 11:08:48 pm »
Quote from: jeffp51 on October 29, 2014, 10:39:45 pm
all my problems were solved--but the addiction got much, much worse. . .
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Offline lenador

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Re: Questions about making my own hardwood arrow inserts.
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2014, 11:12:02 pm »
Yeah I have a bunch of Osage scraps I plan to make a then inserts out of. The decorative arrows are going to be made from milkweed shafts. To light duty for real arrows but perfect for decorative ones.

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Offline Springbuck

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Re: Questions about making my own hardwood arrow inserts.
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2014, 05:53:06 pm »
  The thing is that the grain of the shaft runs the length of the shaft, regardless of orientation of the growth rings (which is probably what you are calling "grain")

But consistency is best.  I cut them perpendicular to where the nock goes.
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