first wood shaft arrow

[kevinsmith5]

I've done quite a few bamboo shaft arrows, but this is the first wood shaft arrow I've finished. It's spruce, 33 1/2" (including nock and head), has a 100 gr glue on field point, turkey feather fletching, and a glue on indexed nock. I finished it with four coats of Danish oil and wrapped the fletching with artificial sinew. At first I had some trouble with the head coming off, but I found a thread that recommended heating the head before attaching and dunking it in ice water to cool itafter attaching and that seems to have done the trick.

Ive got 11 more shafts prepped with Danish oil, so if anyone sees any mistakes or points for improvement, I'd appreciate the pointers before I screw something up

[Weylin]

Looks good from here!

[Pappy]

Looks good to me,just seems a little long unless you have a super long draw length.
   Pappy

[kevinsmith5]

Actually, yes I do. I'm 6'2" but have arms like a gorrilla. My draw is 31 1/2"

[Dictionary]

my draw is 28 and i shoot 34 inch arrows 


nice first one

[kevinsmith5]

I finished the first half dozen last night and shot them for the first time today. All I can say is WOW...it is one thing to know theoretically that carefully building something yourself by hand will turn out better than what you can buy in the store, it's another to watch six arrows consistently slam in a group into your target that would have made you faint with the carbon fibers you had been using.

I think before I was attempting to adjust my aim with the next shot when the next shot was with an arrow that wasn't close to the same (even if they were same make same model). Now the variations are all on my technique and aim....