Could someone give me a list of tools needed for arrow building and cresting. Thanks for the help.

wood or carbon aluminum??

Mike, mainly looking at wood now since it seems to me it takes more tools.

Thanks for the list Pearl.

From a starting out standpoint for wood
1. a nock/point taper tool (I started with the pencil sharpener type)
2. some sort of fletching jig, I think I started with an Arizona easy fletch (it does three feathers at a time)
3. I use ferreltite for gluing points and now have gone to duco for nocks
4. I use a plain old screwdriver with a round shaft to straighten arrow shafts which arent.
5. feathers you could buy precut, but I have a couple of choppers now and save by getting full length feathers by the 100 pk
6 Only other thing I made was a pvc dip tube because I like the look of wood shafts dipped in polyurethane.
 

I also used testors model paints for cresting and hand crested them until I finally built a cresting machine from a sewing machine motor.

Mike can you post a pic of your PVC dip tube, I should be able to make that. I already have a Jo Jan multifletch. I saw a tapering tool that looked like a block of wood with angled slots in it that you use with a disc sander. I could probably make that too if I knew the angle. Are they any good? I also have a lathe if I could find some way to use it as a cresting machine.

I will see if I can get a pic of the dip tube. I happen to have to the wood block with the angles cut, three Rivers sells em 5 degrees for points 11 degrees for nocks. Once you use it a few times your good to go.

http://www.3riversarchery.com/Arrow+Building+Tools+Taper++Guide+Block_c52_s8_p109_i8044_product.html

you may have to slow the lathe down a bit.

There ya go, 1/2 on the bottom I think the top is 2" Long enough for 32 inch shafts. It will hold enough to do 12 arrows plus.

Mike n Savage,

 Not to intrude on the post but I always avoided the pvc tube thinking it would break down with the poly in it. (read it somewhere no actual practical knowledge of it) I assume yours has held up well?

I have a PVC tube that has held poly for over a year since I starting using the gasket system rather. The poly is still liquid and the tube seems fine to me. I will let you know in another year what it looks like! That just made a light go off! I could dip youth bow's in there for a perfect finish every time.

I have used gasket lacqure, polyurethane, and spar urethane all in dip tubes. The polyurethane, and spar urethane I used without the rubber gasket on the dip tube. I've found the spar urethane gives me the best results, but it takes 2 coats in 2 days. The polyurethane only needs 1 coat as it goes on thicker, downside is it takes 3 days to dry before fletching.

Thanks for the pic Mike. That looks doable.