could you pls tell me a book that will teach me to make arrows from square wood

[teddybear111111]

pls could you tell me a book for making arrows from scrach i mean as in having to make the arrow shaft round i now how to cut nocks and add fleaching but not made my won shafts or fleachings would love to make the on my reonakemnt shows
thank you

[Pat B]

Teddy, Take a 3/8" x3/8" x 30" long piece of wood appropriate for arrows and remove the 4 corners with a plane.  Now you have 8 corners. Remove the 8 corners and you have 16 but your shaft is almost round. A bit of sanding will get you there. You can buy a cheap thumb plane from ACE hardware for $10 or less.
   Right off hand I can remember a book that describes the process.

[teddybear111111]

thank you

[Hillbilly]

Like Pat said.  With a little practice, you can make some good shafts with the thumb plane. Jay Massey's arrowmaking chapter in the first Traditional Bowyer's Bible has some good info, but what Pat descibed is what it all boils down to. I drill a hole the same size as the diameter of the finished shafts I want (say 11/32") in a block of wood and use it as a gauge to see how mch more to plane off.

[Barrage]

here's a couple good methods that duffontap posted in the build alongs

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,453.0.html

[hedgeapple]

Here's another site that could help.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~roblewis/Archery/makearrow.htm

[George Tsoukalas]

Here's how I do it. Jawge
http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/shafts.html