First try at Cresting Carbons...

[g_r]

Hi there,

First, sorry for being not here often in the last few months, just too much duties and work. Apart from my normal training i couldnt do many bow related projects lately.
One of those was trying cresting for the first time and though they arent perfect i wanted to show them.

Story behing this: A good friend of mine whome i owe a lot wanted to get into Trad archery and for his birthday i gave him a bow. With this bow of course he needed some arrows. Cheap old Powerflights amde up to his specs. 6 of em plain for first amunition but the other 6 i wanted to make a bit more special.

Well, cresting jig was a powerdrill and a coke bottle with a hole in the cap. A Scale and a more sturdy jig will definately make it easier to have excact and identical crestings.

Heres my free handed version :





Thanks for looking,
Axel

[rodlonq]

Good job Axel, your friend will be very happy with those mate.

[bigbob]

they look really good g-r. I'm sure your friend will be very happy with them.

[Gringa Bows]

Very nice Mate...

[Nephew]

Good to see you treat your mates well, Axel. He'll love 'em!

[bigbob]

how do you use the coke can ,scales etc to do cresting G-r ?

[Curvemeister]

Very nice mate , they came up well

[Stickbow Hunter]

The cresting looks fine g_r.

Jeff

[hazard]

Well, cresting jig was a powerdrill and a coke bottle with a hole in the cap. A Scale and a more sturdy jig will definately make it easier to have excact and identical crestings.

G_r
Pretty good effort for a power drill mate
Love the innovation mate

Hazard

[g_r]

how do you use the coke can ,scales etc to do cresting G-r ?

I dont have a scale, heres a desription of my "Redneck-setup":
I put the tipend of the shaft into a powerdrill and lie it flat on the workbench. at the nock end is a coke bottle with a shaft sized hole in the cap, ducttaped to the table. after inserting the nock end into the hole i manage the powerdrill with one hand while holding the brush with the other hand. The palm of the brush-hand i press slightly against the shaft to make it a bit more sturdy.
I can make you a pic of it tomorrow, but it looks like some modern trash-art

Thanks all.

[Bill]

A very nice looking bunch of arrows there.
By the way you have described your set up, in holding the shafts and applying the paint, to do the cresting, I believe you should be very proud of your efforts. Well done...........bill

[bigbob]

I got the idea G-r sort of using the coke bottle as a bush or bearing.You have done a great job with pretty ordinary set up. Great.