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Title: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: dhaverstick on August 18, 2022, 03:12:04 PM
Woohoo! I finished my arrows for the season! These are a labor of love I do every year with some special help from my teammate and wife, Leah. This year the shafts are Douglas Fir from Surewood Shafts. I cut them to length, put on the point and nock tapers, and then burned patterns onto them using a butane torch. After the burning, I stained them and then turned them over to Leah so she could bling them out with paint and markers. I sealed the shafts with several coats of polyurethane and then fletched them and glued the points on. All that is left to do is to start shooting them! Arrow specs: The shafts spined 60-65 pounds and the arrows are 28.5" long from nock valley to back of point. They weigh approximately 680 grains. Six have 190 field points and the other half dozen have 190 grain Meathead broadheads.

(https://i.imgur.com/q6PPhlS.jpg)
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(https://i.imgur.com/Q4xc5Je.jpg)
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(https://i.imgur.com/M67LPh4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3AxrETd.jpg)
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Darren
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Bisch on August 18, 2022, 03:15:31 PM
Lookin' good Darren!!!

Good luck this season!!!

Bisch
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Wudstix on August 18, 2022, 03:52:40 PM
Museum quality!!!
:campfire: :coffee: :archer2: :campfire:
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Gun on August 18, 2022, 04:39:14 PM
"Lookin so bright, I gotta wear shades"
Good Luck w them Darren!
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: durp on August 18, 2022, 07:22:29 PM
Fine art  :o  Shoot straight  :bigsmyl:
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: fmscan on August 18, 2022, 07:57:25 PM
Those arrows will kill a deer with sheer beauty!
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Terry Green on August 18, 2022, 08:24:42 PM
Nice Dave!

Luckily my 2022 season started the 1st of January.  If not, I'd go bonkers. :jumper: :jumper: :jumper:

In other words, it started before it ended.  :shaka:

Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Sam McMichael on August 18, 2022, 08:46:20 PM
Great looking arrows! Good luck with them.
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Friend on August 18, 2022, 09:08:59 PM
Those beauties look ready for some fine action.

Have tuned and have been shooting my spec'd arrows.

Starting build for the actual field arrows this evening.
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: arrow30 on August 18, 2022, 09:47:06 PM
thay look like peacock feathers, (iridescent) :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: JamesD on August 18, 2022, 10:16:46 PM
Very Nice!!!
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Car54 on August 19, 2022, 10:12:17 AM
Don't get much better!, :clapper:
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Droptine87 on August 19, 2022, 02:09:36 PM
Very nice!!!
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Blaino on August 23, 2022, 09:29:22 AM
Dave, I've enjoyed your season arrow post in the past and this one didn't disappoint!
I'm confident that if I came across one of your arrows in the woods, I'd be able to return it to its rightful owner...... "an archers' arrow is as telling as their signature"
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: rastaman on August 23, 2022, 09:48:45 AM
Beautiful work there sir!   :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Alexander Traditional on August 23, 2022, 11:56:26 AM
Extremely cool!  :archer2:
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: Tim Reese on August 23, 2022, 12:07:16 PM
Very cool  :notworthy:
Title: Re: Finished my arrows for the 2022 season
Post by: J. Cook on August 23, 2022, 05:22:27 PM
Never disappoints!