Make your own arrows: Turning Arrow Shafts on a Router and Hunting Ducks
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2021
- Using a router table and a simple jig to make wood arrows. This is the cheapest and easiest way I've found to make arrows for traditional archery. Using lumber from the hardware store you can make your own arrows in a few minutes.
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I admire the fact that you recorded your flaws throughout the process and also your success… you kept it realistic and showed how one can fail and yet be successful if you keep trying. I love it!
my respects to you! Awesome idea!
Thanks. I hope people realize that things aren’t perfect but if you keep trying it will eventually work out.
Awesome video! I make Doug fir and Port Orford Cedar shaft from scratch and I've found making the 3/8" square dowels with as little grain run-out really helps a lot, and of course the fast rps and slow feed speed. Seems like you have a really good set up! I like your spine tester better than mine, I'm going to try and figure out how you made it. Thanks a bunch!
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Thank you.
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I use ash wood. This makes for a heavy arrow but one that will make more of an impression upon what you shoot. Use a slow feed into the jig, but a fast rotation speed on the drill. Using your sharpest router bit will give a smoother finish on the arrow, but spinning the arrow in a hand made sanding jig is okay to smooth it out some. Dip them in clear finish of some sort suited to the outdoors, usually held in a pipe closed off at one end. To match the arrow weights, just dip the light ones more often than the heavy ones. Watch out for fletching tape, I've had a few fletchings come loose if the helical twist is too much on enameled shafts. A 3/8's shaft turned down to 11/32 loses only a 32nd in the process which isn't much to lose, and is a pretty tight tolerance. I wonder if starting with a 1/2" shaft would not work better. Paint the nock end to facilitate finding the arrow once it's been shot. Use a dab of glue at the front of the feather to streamline it against catching on stuff, your hand or a branch etc. Oh, and never stop learning.
You should change your feed direction. Router tables are fed right to left from the front.
I was using the back of the router bit so it seems backwards but it’s still a conventional cut. You’re right though maybe a climbing cut might work better. I’ll give it a try.
Big box home improve places carry 1/2" tulip poplar boards. Tulip poplar tends to grow straight. That's what I use for arrow shafting.
Thanks. I’ll give poplar a try in my next batch.
I've never duck hunted with a bow but I've done geese over cornfield and that is an absolute blast.
If you can get a few guys together on a good feed field set some decoys and let the arrows fly.
Most of the time you'll hit about one in every 50 you shoot at but even if you don't get anything it's still a good time.
That sounds like a lot of fun.
Yeah something like that.
But it requires though.
Good wood 11/32.
Bad wood 3/8.
It's easier to use a couple 2X2's
A 16 inch piece and a 4 1/2 inch piece.
You draw a red line down one side of the 4 1/2 inch piece and drill it out to your small hole,....in the center.
You cut it to 3 1 1/2 pieces.
number your blocks 1 - 2 - 3,...
2-3 you dimple the mouth of the hole so the mouth is a little bigger,.... for easy feeding.
You will lay out the blocks 1-2-3
1 5 1/2 inch's in.
2 1 1/2 AWAY
3 4 1/2 AWAY
Then you put a 11/32 or a 3/8 shaft through and glue them in place,.... and when their dry you screw them in place.
Then you Drill the big hole 11/32 I think is 1/2 and I believe 3/8 is 9/16.
If your just doing 1 you could just mount it in place.
When you glue it and screw it you,....... would put your 11/32 dowel in till it touches your router bit and clamp it in place,....or bolt it to the table.
Then drill the square peg hole.
Then your ready.
Love duck hunting with a bow I paddle a canoe and try to sneak up on them may set decoys this year
That sounds like fun. I’m planning on giving it some real effort this winter.
Shooting board for arrows much better
Shooting boards work well but it’s a little more time consuming. You can get good results if you take your time.
For anyone who wants to do this, it's a major hassle and really not worth it. Just call Surewood Shafts and they will send you spine and weight matched shafts ready to be made into good arrows. Trust me on this.
I’ve never had any problems with Surewood Shafts. They have high quality shafts and are great to work with. I still like to make my own stuff whether for the challenge or just to call it your own.
leider geil ! 👍
Your feeding into the bit in the wrong direction
I feed it on the backside of the bit so it looks like it’s the wrong direction. It would be safer to stand on the other side but makes it easier to see what’s going on.
Use a round over bit.
I’ll give it a try on the next batch. Thanks
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If you’re making a 3/8, since you’re spinning the dowel, you should be able to get away with a 1/2” round over.
I’d make an adjustable jig that allows you to move the work piece closer in thousands. You’ll be able to get a smooth surface.
The other trick is to round over the square edges. Don’t try to make the dowel but just remove the access material so you can shave it.
Currently, by using an uncut bit you are subject to perpendicular marks.
Too much work just buy carbon for accuracy cheap enough