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Offline UMLarcher

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First Batch!
« on: February 05, 2017, 05:22:00 PM »
After years of shooting carbon while drooling over everyone's custom wood arrows I finally made the jump and made some of my own. I just finished two sets of three for my dad's birthday.

I had some "help". He watched me rub them down with steel wool so he wanted to try it.
 

I made a cresting jig with a fan motor. No one will ever call it a thing of beauty but it worked as a prototype. Pardon the messy bench.
 

Fletching the first set. The bitzenburger jig was really easy to tune. Fletch tape is my new best friend.
 

Finished product.
 

Huge thanks to everyone who's posted here over the years. I took a lot of great information from the forum and I learned a lot from this process. Now 'm going to need him to break these ASAP so I can make more.
Keep Calm & Carry On

Offline Zwickey-Fever

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2017, 05:29:00 PM »
Looking good!!   :thumbsup:
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Offline KyStickbow

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2017, 05:31:00 PM »
They look great!
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Offline CRM_95

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2017, 05:42:00 PM »
They turned out great!!

Offline Sawpilot 75

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2017, 05:44:00 PM »
They look great! Good color combo. One of my favorites!

Offline mcgroundstalker

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2017, 06:12:00 PM »
Looking Good!   :thumbsup:  X2

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Offline Deno

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2017, 06:30:00 PM »
Handsome helper there.  He'll be building for you soon.  Arrows look GREAT!!!!
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Offline crazynate

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2017, 07:15:00 PM »
Nice work

Offline katman

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2017, 08:09:00 PM »
Awesome job, congrats.
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Offline Mike Vines

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2017, 08:13:00 PM »
Nicely done.  Keep him interested and he will be building his own in a few years.

As for the messy bench, I could only hope mine would be that messy.  I haven't seen the top of my bench in years.
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Offline SELFBOW19953

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2017, 08:24:00 PM »
Great looking arrows!!!  My bench has never been that organized.
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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2017, 08:39:00 PM »
Those look great!

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Offline Sam McMichael

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2017, 09:18:00 PM »
Very nice arrows.
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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #13 on: February 05, 2017, 09:21:00 PM »
Well done.    :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:

Offline Gator1

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2017, 09:21:00 PM »
Nice job.  Way to go

Offline goobersan

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2017, 09:54:00 PM »
Great looking woodies !!
I've never met an intelligent person with a clean garage or workshop. It would seem there's too much going on upstairs to bother with cleaning    :bigsmyl:

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #16 on: February 06, 2017, 03:55:00 PM »
:thumbsup:     :thumbsup:
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Offline DannyBows

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #17 on: February 06, 2017, 06:15:00 PM »
Those are beauties, nice job!    :thumbsup:
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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2017, 06:28:00 PM »
Too cute.
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Offline Jim Brennen

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Re: First Batch!
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2017, 06:48:00 PM »
Very Nice, Congrats
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