New sitka spruce arrows.

[Roy from Pa]

Ok, the blade I bought was for a hacksaw so I cut in in two and made 2 of them up shorter.

[Pat B]

   2 for 1

[Wolftrail]

I have found no shafts to be brittle.  I think it depends on how the wood was dried and for how long.
You mentioned "so dense it resembles pages in a phone book "  thats funny because none of my shafts have tight grain like that. 20-30- rings to the inch maybe.  My main concern is grain run off, they explode along the grain line in a 15 degree angle and this happens to me time and again with douglas fir.

Great looking shooters. I'm stuck on Hemlock, I prefer them over Douglas fir or cedar.

Hemlock has beautiful strait grain so dense it resembles pages in a phone book viewed from the side.  I found it to be kind of brittle, have you had any trouble with this?

[onemississipp]

Those are fantastic!


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[fujimo]

your arrows should do well.
this is a video on the tube.
watch till the end, and watch the bounce back on those suckers

[Pat B]

I got these finished up last evening, ready for the hunt. I added trade points made by Kevin Halverson, a friend from PA. Two of the arrows came in at 506gr., 2 at 508gr, one at 511gr and one at 520gr. These weights came after adding the trade points, pitch glue, sinew wraps and pitch varnish sealer. The numbers on the points are their individual grain weight of each which I combines with the appropriate arrow to get their total weights close.

[fujimo]

as always- simply outstanding work!!

[BMorv]

Those are outstanding Pat. 
If you don't mind sharing, how do you go about tuning these?  Do you practice at all with the trade points or just assume that they will fly close enough to your field points? 
I've bare shaft tuned carbons before, but always wondered about the process with wooden shafts. 

[Pat B]

I've never gotten into the practice of bare shafting. I check the shafts closely, looking for bent or crooked shafts, grain runoffs, etc. These came from Wayne at True Shaft Archery ready to go. I make the arrows with 125gr field points and see how they shoot. All of this dozen fly great. I asked Kevin to make the trade points between 125 and 150gr but closer to 125gr. He got real close. Then I used the heaviest(physically)points on the lightest(physically)shafts, trying to get arrows as closely matched as possible. 4 of these 6 are within 2 grains.
 I would not hunt with an arrow I haven't shot and deemed acceptable for hunting. I shot these once with the trade points and they all fly well. I will shoot them one more time choosing the order that they will go in my quiver.