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Offline madcrow

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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #195 on: March 26, 2009, 01:37:51 am »
Those are too nice to shoot.  You must have had all the planets in line to get the weight that close.  I do get to get them within 20 grains.
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #196 on: March 26, 2009, 01:44:07 am »
Naw,  I just pay extra!  The company I buy my target shafts from are real sharp at matching weights and a little care carries that match through to the finished product.  Now trying to weight match a 1/2 dz cane arrows, thats hard!   Ron
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #197 on: March 31, 2009, 06:58:37 pm »
sweet lookin arrow M-P? gonna be using a foxhide quiver?  ;D
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #198 on: April 01, 2009, 12:27:06 am »
Huntertrapper,   I've got a fox hide Quiver ~ 1/2 built.  Every time I get started working on it, something seems to come up.   It'll get done though.   Ron
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #199 on: June 09, 2009, 05:32:41 am »
Quote from: El Destructo on November 07, 2008, 07:35:12 pm
OK.....and here are the Primitives....these are Cane Shafts that I got from Cowboy........I think.... ???  They are fletched with Turkey Feathers and served with Sinew and Hide Glue....They are Self Nocked with Sinew and Hide Glue also....and are footed with Rosewood Shafts ....and Three have Stone Points... and One has Flu Flu Feathers and a Birdcage Blunt on it
talk about outstanding,Outsatnding !
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #200 on: June 09, 2009, 07:56:48 am »
Thanks PK....you are the only one who said anything about them lately....was kinda wondering if I deleted the Pictures!!
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #201 on: April 01, 2013, 08:21:28 pm »
Quote from: M-P on March 26, 2009, 01:44:07 am
Naw,  I just pay extra!  The company I buy my target shafts from are real sharp at matching weights and a little care carries that match through to the finished product.  Now trying to weight match a 1/2 dz cane arrows, thats hard!   Ron

Could a person add small amounts of sand & glue into the hollow shafts to even out the weight? Or use a longer nail insert on the lighter shafts? Weigh each shaft & find the heaviest. Weigh each other shaft & calibrate weight of nail to add up to 1st?

Just a thought. I have yet to make my 1st arrow but I'm a great armchair quarterback.  :)
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #202 on: April 02, 2013, 12:21:28 pm »
Actually, sand + glue is pretty light.  The nail idea will add a lot more weight.   :)
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #203 on: April 03, 2013, 03:11:42 am »
Thanks to all that posted!  Your craftsmanship is overwhelming and truly art.  I think I'm drooling now.   :P
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #204 on: April 04, 2013, 01:52:40 pm »
Sometimes I make these as a set and sometimes they are made from soft wood arrows, like poplar or cedar, that had the tip only broken off.

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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #205 on: April 05, 2013, 12:08:15 pm »
Nice job Robby!  I've yet to try a footed arrow.  I like the nocks too.  Great work, dpg

I give all my broken arrows to my two sons.  Their quivers look more full than mine. ::) dpg
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #206 on: April 11, 2013, 02:25:14 am »
Quote from: bowtarist on April 05, 2013, 12:08:15 pm
Nice job Robby!  I've yet to try a footed arrow.  I like the nocks too.  Great work, dpg

I give all my broken arrows to my two sons.  Their quivers look more full than mine. ::) dpg
I like having replacable footings/foreshafts, it makes it easy to swap out tips- I carry 12 shafts, and 36 footings when I go shooting- 12 fields, 12 blunts, 12 broad.
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #207 on: April 25, 2013, 08:35:13 pm »
Bamboo garden stakes, they work like a charm. The buildalong was great
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #208 on: April 25, 2013, 09:01:17 pm »
Awesome!
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Re: Best Arrow Set
« Reply #209 on: April 27, 2013, 01:44:02 am »
Robby, Nice footed arrows.
Billyf,  Great job on the bamboo.   Ron
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