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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: BryanR on January 01, 2014, 03:38:22 pm

Title: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: BryanR on January 01, 2014, 03:38:22 pm

Finished these throughout December.  50-55#, Ash, leather dye and water based sealed, or straight gun stock oil.  I'm improving my Nock grade from a C to a B  :).  While I can get consistent nice results, it still requires a lot of work on my part.

Haven't gotten the hang of cutting my own feathers yet.  Went through a whole wing, and didn't get 3 that were the same size or shape.  Also, learned that just because a bone point is straight from the front doesn't mean it's straight from the side.  I won't tell which two arrows don't spin well.

Happy New Year everyone!   Looking forward to more of your projects, and trying some myself.

Bryan

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: tattoo dave on January 01, 2014, 03:59:48 pm

Those are sweet!!! Nice work.

Tattoo Dave

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: burchett.donald on January 01, 2014, 04:17:16 pm

Bryan,
          I'll give you an A on those nocks...interesting set of points also...Good strong looking wraps...
                 

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Trapper Rob on January 01, 2014, 04:33:32 pm

Nothing wrong with those arrows.

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Fred Arnold on January 01, 2014, 07:32:49 pm

Great job on those arrows. The color scheme would help me quit loosing so many arrows while I'm out shooting tree rats.

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Grasshopper Mouse on January 01, 2014, 08:49:45 pm

Really nice threadwork. That's an area where a lot of folks are challenged and it can take some time to learn.
I'm not sure what issues you're having with your nocks but whatever it is, you're certainly headed in the right direction.
Great job on these.

Guy

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Danzn Bar on January 01, 2014, 08:55:15 pm

Nice looking arras...............how do they shoot?
DBar

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: toomanyknots on January 01, 2014, 09:08:00 pm

Very nice! What I do with feathers is I wait till they are glued to the shaft. Than I will use wide masking tape over both sides of the fletching. Than I have a little cardboard template I hold against the feather while I trace it with a pen, and then cut on the line I traced with some scissors. After that, I just slowly pull the tape off and usually have a perfect fletching. It's important to put the tape on carefully. That is how I have been doing it lately anyhow, I am still quite a virgin to good making arrows, :).

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Fred Arnold on January 01, 2014, 10:30:51 pm

TMK, I do similar but  I use masking tape and once the pattern is set I transfer the tape  from arrow to arrow.

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: bow101 on January 01, 2014, 11:19:06 pm

You 'da master,  very nice arrows   8)

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: BryanR on January 02, 2014, 07:28:23 pm

Thanks for the awesome comments!   I'll definitely try the tape suggestion next opportunity.

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Pappy on January 03, 2014, 08:07:53 am

Man them are beautiful,very nice job. :)
 Pappy

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Fred Arnold on January 03, 2014, 08:53:24 am

Nice arrows and I really like that color scheme. I'm going to dye up a dozen to try, maybe won't lose them in this high grass around the property.

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: bowtarist on January 03, 2014, 09:18:17 am

Those look great Bryan. Did you make the points? I seem to use green dye a lot and that doesn't help me to find them if I shoot one out in the field or in the woods. Only sugestion I'd give ya is to tapper the transition from point to shaft some on your next batch if you plan on shooting them.  Great work all the same, dpg

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: nclonghunter on January 03, 2014, 09:32:47 am

Very nice, make them too purdy and you may not want to shoot them :laugh:

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Aaron H on February 12, 2014, 05:49:39 pm

those are sweet

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Mohawk13 on February 12, 2014, 11:37:28 pm

Nicearrows for certain. Nocks look fine. Still have issues with mine and I have been building arrows for 30 years!!!! Nice work all around..

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: TimBo on February 13, 2014, 11:58:11 am

Super nice arrows!  I agree - those look like A grade self nocks to me, but it is easy to be picky with your own work.  I am always a bit jealous of Jay Massey's perfect self nocks in the Arrows chapter of TBB...but really, if we needed perfect, we could use those plastic thingys!

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: JEB on February 14, 2014, 08:17:00 am

Very nice looking arrows all the way around from tip to nock.  What glue did you use for the feathers?

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: stickbender on February 17, 2014, 04:24:35 pm

     Very nice arrows, and don't see any problems with your fletching.  I would however, put a little more wrapping behind the points, and in front of the  nocks.  Other than that, very very, nice 8)  Do you have any problems with the wide bone points, causing flight problems?


                                                                               Wayne

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: Dan K on February 17, 2014, 04:38:41 pm

Fletchings look good to me!  What glue did you use to haft your points?

Title: Re: Getting better (and colorful...)
Post by: BryanR on February 17, 2014, 07:02:25 pm

Based on all the comments, I guess I'm doing OK.  Thanks for all the positive replies!

Fetching tape for the feathers.  Easy and clean.  Use 5 minute epoxy for the points.  India ink is my go to color - mimics pitch pretty well.  On these, I colored the epoxy with the same dye as the shafts.  Red and yellow epoxy is awesome to look at.

I haven't shot the bone points yet.  They're around 40-50g, so they may be a bit too light. 

Bryan