Wood arrows....no way....not me!

[Grizz 53]

Thats right,I said it,and I believed it till I got my hands on a good straight piece of hard maple. It all started when I made a cherry dowel for a bow rack I was building for my brother-in-law. I built a jig by cutting a v in a piece of 1x6 then I ripped a piece of cherry 1/2x1/2,laid it in the jig, took my hand power planer and knocked of the 4 corners,chucked it up in my 1/2 inch drill....hand full of 50 grit sandpaper and about 5 min later and I had a perfectly round dowel. Thats when the light went off,so I got a piece of hard maple,ripped it to 3/8x3/8 and the next thing I knew I had an arrow shaft that was perfect. So now I've been bitten by tha trad bug. Who would have thunk it. I'm even thinking about shootin a deer with that thing. Anyway I was kinda hard on the old trads the other day about the traditional thing so Grey Buffalo I'll be thinking about you while I'm eatin this crow! LOL

[Bowspirit]

A hard maple dowel, huh...what you've got there is an arrow material that'll outlast almost all other woods, aluminum, and even alot of carbons as far as durability goes...

[TexMex]

There ain't nothing like it!!

[Grizz 53]

The real kick is I work at a lumber yard. I have an endless supply of tha stuff.

[Rico]

That shaft will be a special critter getter if you choose to use it. Good Luck

[alligatordond]

Sounds like good mojo to me

[the Ferret]

If you hand plane the 4 edges to 8, then the 8 edges to 16, the shaft will be almost round and take very little sanding.

[Grizz 53]

Your right about that Mark. I'm gona have to work on that. My jig is not tweeked out yet and that little hand planer is a wood eatin machine. I took to much off the first two arrows I tried so I just let the 50 grit take up the slack. My buddy Bone was so impressed with the one arrow I did he's already working on an idea for something a little more sofisticated.

[Frank V]

Wood Rules!!!!!!!!! Frank  

[**DONOTDELETE**]

As my 92 yr. old grandmother said about grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, "Don't knock until you try it!"

[String Cutter]

I ain't never tried maple. But, ash is awsome.

[Roy from Pa]

Made these from sitka spuce 3/8th square stock with a hand plane and sand paper.. Straightest arrows I ever seen..