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Title: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: recurve shooter 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!

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: El Destructo on July 31, 2009, 09:10:32 pm

I just use my Belt Sander

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: mullet on July 31, 2009, 10:03:14 pm

  Belt sander for me, too. I used to use a pencil sharpener.

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: recurve shooter 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!

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: mullet 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.  :)

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: El Destructo 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

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: recurve shooter 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

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: El Destructo 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

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: 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!

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: shikari 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.

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: recurve shooter 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.

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: Ian Johnson on August 02, 2009, 03:37:25 pm

recurveshooter, dont you have my taper tool?

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: recurve shooter 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.

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: Ian Johnson on August 02, 2009, 03:57:13 pm

i havent had a truck to drive for the last week

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: islandpiper 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. 

piper

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: mullet on August 10, 2009, 11:51:02 pm

 Aww,,Come on Keith, you are taking all the fun out of this. ;D ;) ;) ;) ;)

Title: Re: learned an easy way to taper for glue on points!
Post by: recurve shooter on August 11, 2009, 09:52:57 pm

island piper, bout time for you to make me a new bow huh? i like the osage-osage-hickorys.  ;D