cutting wood arrows to length

[Pat B.]

I don't have a bandsaw -- so what is the easiest, quickest, best way to cut the shafts to length?

Thanks!

[John Scifres]

Utility knife.  Roll it on a table and carefully score it all the way around and then roll it while cutting progressively deeper.

[pronghorn23]

I just use a fine small toothed saw. Don't know what it's called but it looks like a miniature bow saw. Like a hobby saw.

[Bobby Urban]

I just use a pocket knife and my thumb to score a ring around the shaft and carfully break the end off.  If the arrows are short(like mine) you can do it by hand but if you have longer arrows with only an inch or so to break off use pliers.  

Use genle back and fourth pressure against the grain to insure against split out.  I have never had one split out but feel this is the only issure that could arise with  this technique.

[Stumpkiller]

I use an X-Acto razor saw.  Either in the little mitre box it came with or just on the end of my bench in a "V" block I have for tapering the shafts.

[Looper]

Originally posted by pronghorn23:
I just use a fine small toothed saw. Don't know what it's called but it looks like a miniature bow saw. Like a hobby saw.

A coping saw.

[cedar]

I use my mitre box and finishing hand saw.

[toddster]

I went and got a cutoff blade they sale for drills, that is all I use my corded drill for. I put a hose clamp on my table and it holds it.  It has a buttom to keep it on and I just rotate shafts as I cut.

[Bjorn]

I use a 10" chop saw; grab a handful of shafts or arrows and cut them all at once.

[Caleb the bow breaker]

I went to a hardware store and purchased a "Mitre Box" and a backsaw.  They give you good square cuts.  Heck people used them to make all their angle cuts before power saws.  

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[David Yukon]

My Husky 375xp with 24" bar... LOL

[Ceb]

A common hacksaw also works well.

[Mark Baker]

I have all kinds of saws, but still use the utility knife method.  Score deeply....then snap it off!

[karrow]

Originally posted by John Scifres:
Utility knife.  Roll it on a table and carefully score it all the way around and then roll it while cutting progressively deeper.

x2 easiest

[Stump73]

Originally posted by karrow:
 

Originally posted by John Scifres:
Utility knife.  Roll it on a table and carefully score it all the way around and then roll it while cutting progressively deeper.

x2 easiest [/b]

x3

[alaninoz]

Dovetail saw for me.

[Stone Knife]

Hacksaw.

[huey]

hacksaw

[Terry Lightle]

I do the same as John up above except I use a pocket knife

[Charlie Lamb]

Same as John Scifres and others.