Replicas of some ol' Forgewoods

[snag]

Surewood Steve came to me with a request. He has a Forgewood arrow that Bill Sweetland had signed and a dozen Forgewood shafts. His request was to make up the dozen shafts like the signed arrow...minus the signature. With all the line in the cresting on these I was seeing double for an hour afterwards.

 

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

Beautiful!

[Ray Lyon]

Nice work David.  That will make your vision funky for a while.

Here's some late 50's Bear Archery Forgewoods that I gave to Ron LaClair at our Shrewhaven camp last fall.  They shoot like a dream from his 1956 Kodiak dual shelf.

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You are the wood arrow man, snag!

Great work, as always!

Bisch

[Pheonixarcher]

Those are sharp! I sure wish someone would start making those forgewoods again.

[Danny Rowan]

Sweetland Forgewoods were the best arrow shafts ever made, sure wish they were still in production, i would not be using carbons if they were. But I do have 2 doz arrows stashed and I have 2 arrows signed by Bill with the headshrinkers and bear razor heads on them.

[Ron LaClair]

Absolutely beautiful David...  

[Bud B.]

Art. Some like Van Gogh. I like some finely crafted art in the form of a well painted fine lined arrow. These, as always with snag, are works of art indeed.

[joe skipp]

Outstanding....!! If Forgewoods were around today, that's all I would be shooting.

[groyce]

Beautiful David

Forge woods were the perfect arrows for my heavy Hill longbows.  Heavy with a slower recovery rate.

[overbo]

I luckily found 5 dz of Sweetland shafts. Extremely high quality.

Love your arrowsmithing Snag!

[Surewood Steve]

Thanks Snag, these 12 arrows plus an original Sweetland box will be in the raffle at the North American Longbow Safari next month in Oregon.  There were given to me to be used as a fund raiser, the spine is around 35-40#.  These are for show and ones collection.  Surewood Steve.

[snag]

Thanks for allowing me to do this for you Steve.

Thanks guys for the nice words. It was fun bringing these out of "retirement".

[jonsimoneau]

Those are excellent.  I used to shoot forgewoods and would still be if they were available.  Great work.

[wooddamon1]

Gorgeous arrows, snag!

[Gator1]

Great work David

Isn't there a company in Alaska making compressed shafts on the same principal?

[jcar315]

Very nice indeed!

I'm partial to the white, red, and silver colors so those look perfect to my eye.

[Dan bree]

Mite have been jack Harrison. When he was up in Alaska

[Ray Lyon]

Probably 10 years ago, I ordered some of those compressed shafts from the Alaska company. They came in a sealed plastic bag.  I remember taking them to my friend John Grumley's to open them and have him taper on his special jig.  He took one look at them and laughed and said they look like snakes. I ended up selling them as they were for about 1/3 of what I paid for them.

The Forgewood arrows I gave Ron LaClair shown above were straight. Also, for their light spine (they were coming in at 40-45 pounds), they weighed in at 575 grains with the Bear Razorhead and aluminum headshrinker included. Ron's dual shelf Kodiak was about 45#'s and his draw is 27" and those arrows were 28" in length. I agree with the above comments that if the Forgewoods of old were still being made, they would probably have a good following.  They were tough and had a built in FOC.  When found, those old shafts should be treated like the gems they are.