Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Danzn Bar on April 02, 2017, 06:12:20 pm
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At Moon Tree this year stixnstones gifted me 12 wooden shafts. After I got them home I noticed that these were not your ordinary shafts, tight grain, no run outs and very straight.... super shafts. They were within 5# and 10 grains of each other.....Thanks stix's!!!! ....where did you get these and what kind of wood is it!!?
Well I got started on them this weekend ...... nock tapered the 11/32 to 5/16 and got a stain and one finish coat on them. Planning on using white nocks, 2 white and a yellow/orange cock feather. I'll thread wrap the fletching and use your typical glue on points. Hope to get them done in the next week or so......
Here's a couple of pictures so far....
DBar
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Those look nice Dbar, they are tapered shoot shafts? Like to hear more about them.
Bjrogg
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Not shoot shafts BJ.........their a dowel of some sort of wood....
I need to talk to Mike about what kind of dowels they are....maybe he will chime in soon.
DBar
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Those are looking great Bill
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How did you do the faded stain?I have had very little luck doing that >:(
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Those are looking good.
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Awesome :NN
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Looking good
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Great start Bill!
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Looking nice Bill. Did you taper the last 9" or so from 11/32 to 5/16?
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Nice work!! very pretty arrows! ;)
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"the couple of pictures so far", are looking good. Hope to be able to follow along.
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Thanks Guys....
DC, I just put the light color on one end and the dark on the other and work the dark color towards the light...
Paul, yep the nock end about nine or ten inches....
TSA, I like ugly arrows too as long as they shoot good...:)
Going to add another coat of finish tonight and then add the nock and start fletching... tomorrow
Thanks again,
DBar
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Your going to love matched sets of parallel arrows Bill, its hard to beat their consistent flight and accuracy. What spine are they?
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Bill, i cant remember what type of shafts they are.... i picked em up at Kalamazoo traditional expo this past January... Pearl picked some up too, i think he knows
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Chundoo/German pine. They should weigh up a bit more that POC and are a bit tougher.
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Thanks for the info Guys.....If I remember right the raw shafts at 32" were around 390 gr. range. and the spine I know was 50-55# . I want these to shoot out of my feather backed, osage, static recurve bow. At my draw it pulls about 50#. Last night I bare shafted one and it showed weak. I know that bow shoots an arrow harder than the poundage, and the second shot after cutting off 1/2" broke the shaft. I ended up cutting them another 1/2" off and using a 125 gr point to get good flight. I think 100 gr points would shoot even better and I hope to get some at the Classic. I'm out of 100 gr. 11/32's at the moment and can't cut anymore off the shafts. These are going to be pretty simple looking arrows but they fly like bullets out of that bow and I hope to get some pictures up in the next few days. I'm thinking they are going to really improve my groups compared to my cane arrows.
Thanks a bunch Mike!!
DBar
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No problem buddy... so glad they're workin out for ya. Can't wait to see the finished product.
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Bill those POC arrows of mine that you shot from that bow down at your cabin were 29.5", 50# on the spot and had 125 grain tips. They flew perfectly from that bow if I remember right.