New woodies!

[Shane C]

A few weeks ago at our archery club's first shoot Mike Vines and his family came down to shoot. I was able to meet up and shoot the course with them. It was a great time to say the least!

 

I've been shooting carbons since I started shooting traditional archery (about a year) and had the itch to shoot woods here and there but never really pursued it. Well, I just switched to a lighter weight bow and try as I might, I could not get my arrows to tune for me. It was frustrating to say the least. A buddy's arrows shot well out of my bow so I was actually shooting one of his arrows through the course. Mike was shooting the same poundage bow as I was and offered to let me try one of his arrows. They flew like a dream! I couldn't ask for a better arrow flight! Well, at the end of the shoot he gave me the four arrows out of his quiver and told me that if I wanted to shoot some more wood arrows to just have the shafts sent to him and he would finish them up for me! What a guy!!! Well, fast forward a couple weeks and look what showed up on my door!

 

 

These are gorgeous! I'm really excited to fletch them up and get to shooting. I'm going to use some natural turkey feathers from magnus that are dyed blue. The should look great!

[Gator1]

Shane

Very nice good woodies are hard to beat

       

[Mike Vines]

Thank you for the kind words Shane.  As soon as you shot that first arrow, I knew right then you were going to make the switch (the look on your face said it all).  I didn't want you rethinking yourself, that's why I sent you home with my Hawaii arrows.  Enjoy these, I had fun making them for you.

I now realize that I have a problem...Other people are ordering Surewood Shafts and sending them to me.  It does give me a chance to try out some new ideas doing it that way though.

See you at the Spring Shoot,

Mike

[steadman]

Mike is a great guy for sure    he builds a great arrow. I see a Motorcity Machete website in the near future  

[Izzy]

Never seen a color combo like that, theyre some classy looking sticks.

[Buckhorn47]

Great looking arrows. You will get "hooked" on "woodies"

[wooddamon1]

Nice!  

[Ray Lyon]

Some blue and gray barred feather on those from Magnus would be perfect.    

Nice work Mr. Vines!  

[Mike Vines]

Originally posted by steadman:
Mike is a great guy for sure        he builds a great arrow. I see a Motorcity Machete website in the near future      

Not a chance Ryan.  Having a website means I would have another job, and I hate working.  I prefer to keep doing it for fun.

[Mike Vines]

Sorry, double post.

[bearsfeet]

Good looking arrows I am sure with your blue feathers they will look pretty slick

[lhbandito22]

hey shane those are good lookin.....watch out for gary on the corse he got a couple of my feathers yesterday dont let him shoot at them... hahaha

[steadman]

Who said anything about work    Looking great bud  

[Shane C]

Well, unfortunately I had the natural turkey feathers shipped to my old address in Montana. That sucked! Lol But a buddy lhbandito22 hooked me up with some blue barred truflight feathers and the fletching began!

 

[Shane C]

Unfortunately, I only have one jig. Doing 4 fletch and leaving each feather on there for ~15 minutes meant each arrow took about an hour. Not a big deal, I got them done! I think they turned out alright

 

 

 

[Mike Vines]

You did them shafts well Shane, now go get them bloody.

[Dirtybird]

Shane, Mike does fabulous work and is a wealth of knowledge.  Great looking arrows.

[T-Bowhunter]

Great looking arrows!