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Offline Wannabe1

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If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« on: January 21, 2011, 03:30:00 PM »
For those wanting to try their hand at building some not so fancy but, functional wood arrows, I thought I'd share how I do it. I start by using 1 doz. Surewood shafts spined 60-65#, 32" to start and 410-420gr. These will be for my Howard Hill Tembo this year.
   

I then, using a white cotton t-shirt, so no inks bleed through, stain with a Colonial Maple Minwax stain. This gives them a very traditional look in my opinion and really brings out the wood grain. Let them dry for 24hrs.
   
   
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2011, 03:33:00 PM »
Keep going TW. A lot of folks can use this.
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2011, 03:35:00 PM »
Didn't You say "Not fancy" Keep it coming..
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2011, 03:38:00 PM »
where do you get the surewoods?
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2011, 03:38:00 PM »
Hold on guys, gotta let 'em dry.   :D  I'm doing this post as I go so, it will be drawn out over the next week. Believe me, they won't be fancy but, they'll shoot straight!   :thumbsup:
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2011, 03:39:00 PM »
Pon, I live right down the road from where they build them. All I have to do is call in what I want, and when they're ready, go pick them up.
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2011, 03:43:00 PM »
I like the Calabash pipe in the left corner. ;-) (And the burl ones, too).

Now see what you've done.  I'm gonna have to drag my pipe out and get stern looks from THE ADMIRAL.
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2011, 03:46:00 PM »
Stumpkiller, it really helps me relax sometimes to just sit at my work bench and enjoy one of my pipes. The Alpha wood pipe, I got from Dick in Seattle and it is my favorite.
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2011, 03:47:00 PM »
Sherlock Holmes the arrow maker,You will finish up with a flight test after your all done won't ya   :goldtooth:
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2011, 03:50:00 PM »
Absolutely! I will bareshaft one to get it to the right length before finishing up arrows.
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2011, 03:50:00 PM »
Pon you can order direct or you can get them from Tim @ Braveheart archery.
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2011, 03:54:00 PM »
Thanks for doing this arrow build along wannabe
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2011, 03:57:00 PM »
Understood.  I got started to keep the blackflies and mosquitoes off while fishing and now it's just an occasional treat.  I have an old briar bent-stem bulldog that is small but my favorite.  I used to go through a "Missouri Meerchaum" every couple years - corncob pipe to the uninformed.  Sweet smoking and light enough to keep in your teeth without hands or geting a stiff jaw.  

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. (C.S. Lewis)
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2011, 06:15:00 PM »
The high grade Missouri Meerchaum, never thought I would say that, with Balkan Sobranie, very expensive English blend, is the best string making, arrow fletching, canoe paddling, flyfishing combo I have found.  Don't shoot your bow with your pipe in your mouth.  That is not being a wise man.  I know of two people that did, talk about your teeth rattling bow shock.
  While i puff I wonder, what is the spread of grain weights on say a hundred surewood shafts versus the bulk order of 100 cedar shafts.
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2011, 06:38:00 PM »
These smoke signals are killing me -- like a foreign language to a licorice eater like me!
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2011, 06:40:00 PM »
Actually, I get a HUGE kick out of many of these threads that start out on a topic and then take a couple forks here and there ...very entertaining. Like that commercial on TV where the search engine BING helps focus a search better than Google!

Course like the great Yogi said (Bera not Boo-boo's mentor), "When you come to a fork in the road...take it!
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2011, 06:44:00 PM »
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Originally posted by magnus:
Keep going TW. A lot of folks can use this.
Agreed. And I'm definately one of them.  :D
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2011, 08:07:00 PM »
Getting some minor things together. Tomorrow I will seal the  shafts with Varathane, Spar Urethane. It is an outdoor urethane and is water clean up for easy use. I will do one coat, dry 15 minutes, rub with a very fine steel wool; coat and dry 15 more minutes; steel wool and coat one final time. This actually seals the shaft very well!
 
   
   
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2011, 08:09:00 PM »
Note my J-8 fletching jig. I made it so's it's portable and I can fletch anywhere I feel like resting my south end.
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Re: If you want fancy, don't look here.....Arrow Build Along (Update PG6)
« Reply #19 on: January 21, 2011, 09:01:00 PM »
hey Buddy they is looking good so far!!  :clapper:
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