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Title: birch ply arrows?
Post by: crossstickspro on June 20, 2009, 11:30:00 AM

I just finished yet another cabnet job and was thinking, could i make arrows out of the scrap? most of the time we use premium birch or oak plywood. why not run the scrap through the router with a round-over bit then through a veritas dowel finisher.  Has anyone tryed this or a variation of.. will it workfor shootable arrows

Title: Re: birch ply arrows?
Post by: Jesse Peltan on June 20, 2009, 02:03:00 PM

3 rivers sells lam birch arrows so I think it would work.

Title: Re: birch ply arrows?
Post by: TNstickn on June 20, 2009, 05:47:00 PM

Plywood layers are ran in alternating directions to increase stiffness. Rip ya a 3/8 square about 36 inches long and whip it in the air, probably break off near your hand.
Laminated arrows are ran in the same direction. Im sure you could make an arra, but the spine would probably be heck to get consistent,not to mention the voids in the plywood layers. Even the 5x5 Russian birch plywood with the extra layers used for cabinet drawers and such have voids here and there.>>>>-------> Not sayin dont try, I've just been thinkin about various woods and methods also.

Title: Re: birch ply arrows?
Post by: George Tsoukalas on June 21, 2009, 02:05:00 PM

No, don't do it. Sounds dangerous. Jawge

Title: Re: birch ply arrows?
Post by: crossstickspro on June 21, 2009, 02:34:00 PM

didnt think about the alternating layers, thanks guys prolly saved me lots of agravation and my arm

Title: Re: birch ply arrows?
Post by: TNstickn on June 21, 2009, 04:10:00 PM

I would follow Jawges advice!