Swaged Aluminum Arrows?

[SERGIO VENNERI]

Tom; Vic is the person that i purchased my Swager from . any idea as to his whereabouts now? Vic also hunted Moose with VERY light Bows and heavy arrows. Nice man.

[onewhohasfun]

Vic was a great guy with a huge trad archery shop near Grand Rapids. I have no idea of his whereabouts. I think he retired. I was hoping he might show up here one day. Your swager is top notch.

[gvdocholiday]

Man do I remember Vic's.  I only went in there a few times though.   They closed down my sophomore year at GV.  

I'm still very interested in these.  Thinking about getting a dozen Gamegetter 500's to play around with.

[last arrow]

This is the kind of thread that just kills me.  I read it a couple of days ago.  Now I have this little voice in my head saying "you need a dozen swaged 2020s to compare to the carbons you are shooting".  The voice is going to gnaw away at me until I have spent more time and money than I should messing with  aluminum arrows again, repeating something I probably did 25 years ago.  I probably need professional help...

[WJackson11x]

Originally posted by last arrow:
This is the kind of thread that just kills me.  I read it a couple of days ago.  Now I have this little voice in my head saying "you need a dozen swaged 2020s to compare to the carbons you are shooting".  The voice is going to gnaw away at me until I have spent more time and money than I should messing with  aluminum arrows again, repeating something I probably did 25 years ago.  I probably need professional help...

This is funny!  I thought I was the only one that had that problem  

[Blaino]

TTT

[Mike Theis]

Sergio - Thanks for the post with the pics. I look forward to the tutorial as well to see it in action. Please post a link, if not posted here.

I have a local machinist who would love this sort of project. Not looking to steal anyones patented design, but they seem to be out of stock everywhere else.

[Scooter Trash]

I bought 2 dozen Classics from RJ archery back in the early 1990's.  I still have 8 left.  I found a couple dozen Classics a couple years ago along with a couple dozen Legacy shafts.  I dropped them off at The Footed Shaft to have swaged.  I should be set for another couple decades or so now.

[MO Bow]

Can someone please post a pic of some swages shafts and some with the points in?

I'm having trouble trying to picture exactly what it would look like.

Thank you!!!

[Hermon]

It looks like the point taper on a wood arrow. And then you use glue on points.

[MO Bow]

got it...was picturing the end of the shaft compressed where a screw in point could be inserted and glued in.  didn't understand the advantage of doing something like that.

Now I get it!

[Gator1]

Footed shaft a sponsor here stages aluminum skin.