Making a Matched Set of Wood Arrows

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Making a Matched Set of Wood Arrows

#1 Post by Stickbow Hunter » Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:27 pm

This link may be helpful for those wanting to make their own arrows.
Making a Mattched Set of Wood Arrows.pdf
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#2 Post by ET » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:09 pm

Thanks for that Jeff

That is going to be very helpfull next time i make set.

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#3 Post by trash one » Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:36 pm

Hay ET
Don't worry about arras mate you better bush up on your fishin Jo has been trying her new gear out on the barra, she recons she is gettin ready the fishin comp in april.

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#4 Post by ET » Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:53 pm

Not if I can get to the good spots first.

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#5 Post by trash boss » Fri Feb 02, 2007 5:13 pm

Who's going to be in the lead canoe?
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#6 Post by ET » Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:19 pm

You can go up in front to scare the crocs on second thoughts.

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Re: Making a Matched Set of Wood Arrows

#7 Post by WAHINEOZ » Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:37 am

I realise this is an older post, but the link http://www.ozbow.net/woodarrows_1_001.htm doesn't seem to be working. Is there somewhere else we maybe able to get some info on making wooden arrows? Any advice would be great...cheers
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#8 Post by Stickbow Hunter » Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:02 am

Sorry but that link has not worked for quite some time and in fact the article is not even on the site anymore. It is one of the many fixes needed on the site. :oops: However I just went through some old files of the site and found the various pages and I quickly did up a PDF and attached it in my original post. I would like to do some finishing touches to it but I think the whole of the old article is there (let me know if any info is missing). I hope it helps. :biggrin:

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#9 Post by WAHINEOZ » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:15 pm

Thanks very much everything helps when you know nothing at all...cheers
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#10 Post by Chase N. Nocks » Tue Sep 04, 2012 9:44 pm

G'day Jeff,

Thanks for putting this link back in. I went looking for it a while ago and thought it was just me being stupid I could not find it. Excellent build along.

BTW mate, who is the young fella in the pics? :wink:

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#11 Post by Buranurra » Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:21 pm

That is a great piece of work there Jeff,

I've downloaded and hope to use soon.

Many thanks

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#12 Post by Stickbow Hunter » Thu Sep 13, 2012 7:56 pm

Chase N. Nocks wrote:BTW mate, who is the young fella in the pics?
Yeah Troy the article is one I wrote for the Australian Bowhunter mag back in the late 1990's so I wasn't as grey and had more hair back then. :lol:
Buranurra wrote:That is a great piece of work there Jeff,
Thanks Jase.

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#13 Post by ontothepigs » Sat Nov 03, 2012 1:21 pm

That first link was pretty good!
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#14 Post by Buranurra » Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:19 pm

Hi Jeff,

I am thinking of getting gradually getting my tools together to make some woodies. I was considering buying the bitzenberger jig. Dunno what to get for a right handed person - straight or helical left or right. I want to make arras for the Whip but also to make some for the Crimean Tatar horn bow (10 months away though) which has no shelf.

What do you think?

I also saw this vanetech adhesion kit - any thoughts http://www.bowhunterssuperstore.com/glu ... _2281.html

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Re: Making a Matched Set of Wood Arrows

#15 Post by Stickbow Hunter » Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:39 pm

Jase, You won't go wrong with the Bitzenberger jig as it will last you a life time. They say technically a right handed archer should use left wing feathers but it really doesn't matter one bit IMO. I would get the right wing helical jig if I was you. In Australia 99% of the feathers available a right wing anyway.

As far as glues for feathers go I use Loctite super glue. You can get it at Bunnings.

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#16 Post by Buranurra » Sun Nov 04, 2012 5:45 pm

Thanks mate!!!
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Re: Making a Matched Set of Wood Arrows

#17 Post by job » Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:20 am

Stickbow Hunter wrote:This link may be helpful for those wanting to make their own arrows.
Making a Mattched Set of Wood Arrows.pdf
Jeff
That's a great article. For those who struggle to find a decent set of shafts to start with, there is another way. The best set of woodies I've ever seen were made by a kid at our club. I think he was about 13 or 14 at the time (it was definitely before he discovered girls). He got a blank of perfect straight-grained Douglas Fir, and then ripped it down to 9mm billets. Then he took off the corners with a hand plane, and then finished up the round with a sander. He checked the diameters by using a simple round hole gauge. The thing that got me about this set was that because they were all ripped from the same baulk, they were perfectly matched in spine. And yes the kid made his own spine tester and weighed them as well. This kid also made his own bows. He did have one huge advantage over the rest of us, his father was a violin maker with an international reputation. So the workshop he had access to was pretty good. Unfortunately though he discovered girls, and we don't see him any more. Last I heard he was training to be a lawyer. What a tragic waste.

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Re: Making a Matched Set of Wood Arrows

#18 Post by discord » Fri Mar 01, 2013 4:05 pm

Reminds me of song lyrics from that magnificent Aussie band, T.I.S.M.

The rich kid becomes a junkie
The poor kid, an advertiser
What a tragic waste of potential
(being a junkie's not so good, either)


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