Ever see a crester like this one?

[LC]

Hope this picture works. Haven't done it here before. Was wondering if anyone here has seen a crester like this one? It's capable of holding a complete dozen shafts at a time. It's belt driven and keeps the ones facing you spinning all the time. Once you've crested the shaft there is a spring loaded latch that lets you roll the entire dozen shafts around till you've done all 12! I got it several years ago from the widow of a archer years ago when field archery was popular.

[LONGHORN]

WOW,first time I see a multi crester.Thanks for sharing.

[robslifts]

i saw one for sale a while back on **** and bid on it but did not get it

good way to be consistent on your arrows

[DarkeGreen]

That thing should be worth some money to a collector. Pretty neat.

[JBiorn]

Gosh, I'll bet that old thing is just taking up space in your shop-----I would be happy to remove your old junk for you!

 Jeff

[kennym]

Cool!! Reminds me of a gatling gun somehow tho......

[LC]

Got alot of cool stuff from the fine lady. Sad thing is she had a older son who shoots and hunts with compounds but he didn't want any of his dads ol stuff. Got a complete dozen of old Bitz's too. Traded all those away except for the one I kept.They were the type with a sliding slotted arm for adjusting the clamp angle.

Any idea what the one went for you seen robslift?

[SamuraiWarrior2]

i think it would be better if it spun all 12 shafts individually and another gear slowly rotated the whole group of them so that you could put the same lines on all the shafts at the same time and exactly the same place.

[JBiorn]

I would love to luck into a yard sale or something like that where someone has some old toys like this! What a find.

 Jeff

[LC]

Actually SamuraiWarrior2 I think thats the principal behind this design, not sure though. It does spin all shafts individually, it keeps spinning the shafts on both sides of the one your doing ( think about the wet paint drying while it's spinning!) but instead of another gear you could leave the latch undone and rotate by hand to the next shaft. You'd have to keep paint on the brush though but could rotate through all the shafts with the same width brush doing all the same kinda lines.

I even got some of his old bare aluminum completed arrows. Spliced white feathers with a blue splice. Cresting looks nice! He did use what looks like water decals for numbering his arrows also.

[LC]

TTT Ah come on guys and gals, surely someone on here knows some history on this crester?

[PowDuck]

It is pretty cool. Saw your post on another board. It would be cool to see it in action. Reckon you could get it running?

[LC]

It works fine Powduck. The motor is mounted on a hinged board and the belt, more like a O ring, goes in a slot in the wooden nock spool ends. The point end is adjusted for length and is spring loaded. Not sure a picture would show much. A video would, but basically what you'd see is the half dozen facing ya would be spinning while the other half dozen would be sitting idle.

[Forester]

I recently saw this image posted in a thread about historical archery photos.  It was posted by a gentleman from British Columbia with the caption:  "The year is 1940, and Martin H. Blankenship is stripping arrows at the Ben Pearson plant. Blankenship worked for the company for 51 years. He died in 1991."
I assume "stripping" is a typo and should be striping.

Not sure if it is the same machine but it reminded me of your post.  Almost looks like there are multiple multi-cresters mounted together here, maybe 7 of them on that big wheel?

[RamiusEng]

We should try to revive this design.....along with a taper, breasted, barrel cutting attachments.

   

[LC]

Wow Forester, thanks I musta missed that thread. Makes sense though, being in production you couldn't do one shaft at a time. Wonder how Papa Bear made all those POC arrows that he sold in the seventy's? I've got some old Bear arrows still in the box gona have to go check but I don't think they looked "hand" crested! Interesting.