That was my point Glenn. Most of us have enough "stuff" laying around that can be made into things we need to enjoy our sport. For the newbies that haven't had the chance to accumilate this "stuff" but still have a need, hopefully it will show them that they don't have to spend much money, if any at all, to get what we need for our archery addiction. The purpose of PA is to show how to make what we need with what we have available to us. My use of house paint or Kilz primer to crown these arrows is a good example. You don't need a dip tube or expensive paints and specific brushes to crown, crest or seal arrows. A little masking tape(or not) and some of that old paint sitting in the basement or garage will do the trick. We don't need special cresting paint to fancy up our arrows or a cresting lath to do it. Magic Markers, craft paint, etc works very well for cresting. Rotating the shaft as it lays across your lap works as a cresting lathe and a can of spray poly or Tru-Oil applied with your finger works well to seal the shaft. How about the use of duplex nails for points or a "nutter" as a small game head, a sharpened stick attached as a foreshaft can be used as your target point.
A good friend, a few years ago, shot a 3D course of 20 targets with a cane arrow with found legal feathers tied on. For a point he cut his cane arrow at a sharp angle about 3" from a node on the big end and filled the void with sand and sealed it with pine pitch. Along with most of the targets, that arrow hit trees and rocks and Barry was still able to complete the course using only that arrow.
