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Offline recurve shooter

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learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« on: July 31, 2009, 04:16:51 pm »
hi guys. i broke the point off an arrow and needed to taper it for a blunt for bunnies but didnt have a tool, so i turned on the gass stove, burned the end for a little while, then scraped off the charcoal till i had it about right, then glued it up.

just figured this might make someone's life a little easyer!
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2009, 09:10:32 pm »
I just use my Belt Sander
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2009, 10:03:14 pm »
  Belt sander for me, too. I used to use a pencil sharpener.
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2009, 05:17:14 pm »
well im liveing with my mom (i am 16 after all) and i cant even find a hammer around here. much less a sander.  so i had to find something. by the way i cut an inch off of those new arrows i got and they shoot much better now!
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2009, 09:27:56 pm »
  Trey, scrape it on the sidewalk while you are turning it. About the time your knuckles hit the sidewalk, thats the right angle.  :)
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2009, 09:53:50 pm »
                       Man ....I bet your hands would be a Mess by the end of the first dozen............ :o    ;)     :P
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2009, 10:17:40 pm »
but you would have cool scars!!

and mullet im glad i know that now. if im ever stranded without a taper tool and run uppon a sidewalk, i can put on my points. ;D
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2009, 12:07:23 am »
Thats alright...I have enough Scars on Me from the Pavement and Highway Signs...don't need any more...... ;D
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2009, 11:24:35 am »
Sounds like it would work. Congrats on your ingenuity.

In the old days, we used to sharpen pencils with a pocket knife. Every 16 yearold fella should have a pocketknife, right?

Anyway, you may find that you have more control over the angle by using a knife.

Good luck!
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2009, 11:54:57 am »
have a tile cutter that i glued sand paper to an extra blade and works just like a woodchuck.
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2009, 01:42:33 pm »
Quote from: scattershot on August 02, 2009, 11:24:35 am
Sounds like it would work. Congrats on your ingenuity.

In the old days, we used to sharpen pencils with a pocket knife. Every 16 yearold fella should have a pocketknife, right?

Anyway, you may find that you have more control over the angle by using a knife.

Good luck!

only a pocket knife? when i leave my house i have a pocket knife and a neck knife, and when i go fishing or anyhting i have my foraged japanese hunter just in case.
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2009, 03:37:25 pm »
recurveshooter, dont you have my taper tool?
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2009, 03:55:30 pm »
no ian. i left it at my house along with your leather, bowfishing rig, and black powder gun for you to go pick up, which i see never happened.
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« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2009, 03:57:13 pm »
i havent had a truck to drive for the last week
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Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2009, 10:55:29 pm »
Trey, bring them in to the shop and do it on either of my belt sanders....or either of the disc sanders.  We can make a little jig that will cut them JUST RIGHT....and i have a hot glue gun too. 

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