I've been fletching my own arrows for years and tried cresting some carbons last year, and a second time this year. I just refinished a bow for my kids to shoot and put a blue/silver/black string on it because my oldest son's favorite color is blue. I figured I'd build him some arrows to match it and my daughter could just shoot his bow and arrows for now. Once he steps up to a bigger bow, I'll put a pink string on it and make her some pink arrows. I asked on here last week about simple and inexpensive ways to build some youth arrows and got several good responses. But one guy went way above and beyond. He told me he'd send me a dozen 25-30# birch shafts he had left from one of his projects. He even paid the shipping. One of the many reasons I love TG. Anyway, the package arrived and had not 12, but 18 shafts; 12 from 26-29# and 6 from 19-25#. I'll do 12 for my son and go ahead and do the six extras for my daughter, even if she doesn't have her own bow yet. I got them cut and sorted today and worked a few kinks out of a couple to get them all mostly straight. My hardware, including a taper tool won't get here until Saturday, so I won't get to actually start until then, but I tried out a few colors of Feibing's leather dye on the cutoffs this evening. The results are pictured below, and it's interesting how different a couple of them look on wood compared to leather. Top to bottom: natural, light tan, British tan, medium brown, mahogany, and black. Of course my son wiuld pick the light tan, so I guess his arrows are gonna be yellow with blue cresting. I'll try to get more pictures up as I go.
Topic: First try at woodies (Read 429 times)
