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Wannabe1
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For those wanting to try their hand at building some not so fancy but, functional wood arrows, I thought I'd share how I do it. I start by using 1 doz. Surewood shafts spined 60-65#, 32" to start and 410-420gr. These will be for my Howard Hill Tembo this year.
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I then, using a white cotton t-shirt, so no inks bleed through, stain with a Colonial Maple Minwax stain. This gives them a very traditional look in my opinion and really brings out the wood grain. Let them dry for 24hrs.
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Keep going TW. A lot of folks can use this.

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Didn't You say "Not fancy" Keep it coming..
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Pon
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where do you get the surewoods?

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Wannabe1
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Hold on guys, gotta let 'em dry. [Big Grin] I'm doing this post as I go so, it will be drawn out over the next week. Believe me, they won't be fancy but, they'll shoot straight! [thumbsup]

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Wannabe1
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Pon, I live right down the road from where they build them. All I have to do is call in what I want, and when they're ready, go pick them up.

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Stumpkiller
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I like the Calabash pipe in the left corner. ;-) (And the burl ones, too).

Now see what you've done. I'm gonna have to drag my pipe out and get stern looks from THE ADMIRAL.

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Wannabe1
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Stumpkiller, it really helps me relax sometimes to just sit at my work bench and enjoy one of my pipes. The Alpha wood pipe, I got from Dick in Seattle and it is my favorite.

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Sherlock Holmes the arrow maker,You will finish up with a flight test after your all done won't ya [goldtooth]

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Wannabe1
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Absolutely! I will bareshaft one to get it to the right length before finishing up arrows.

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Pon you can order direct or you can get them from Tim @ Braveheart archery.

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Red Tailed Hawk
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Thanks for doing this arrow build along wannabe

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Understood. I got started to keep the blackflies and mosquitoes off while fishing and now it's just an occasional treat. I have an old briar bent-stem bulldog that is small but my favorite. I used to go through a "Missouri Meerchaum" every couple years - corncob pipe to the uninformed. Sweet smoking and light enough to keep in your teeth without hands or geting a stiff jaw.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. (C.S. Lewis)

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The high grade Missouri Meerchaum, never thought I would say that, with Balkan Sobranie, very expensive English blend, is the best string making, arrow fletching, canoe paddling, flyfishing combo I have found. Don't shoot your bow with your pipe in your mouth. That is not being a wise man. I know of two people that did, talk about your teeth rattling bow shock.
While i puff I wonder, what is the spread of grain weights on say a hundred surewood shafts versus the bulk order of 100 cedar shafts.

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These smoke signals are killing me -- like a foreign language to a licorice eater like me!

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