Sounds like a plan Kelly.

Hi from down under in Oz Kelly G. Glad to see your back in one piece and making great trad stuff still. Hows that twisted son of a -- bow you were building came along?

curious, will Rosehip work for shafts Kelly?  If so I have a ditch full of them   .

Hi Kelly,
Saw your post pop up Looks like your doing a good job on your arrows and points. Here's a few I have made and some pix you asked for. The two on the far left red osier dogwood and the rest are wild rose The rose are way easier to straighten compered to the dogwood Must be the pithy centers All selfnocks. The rose arrows I have to straighten often never did seal any of them very good only used light oil and bees wax. So Kelly keep a look out for the rose and red willow for some other arrow wood options. Keep up the good work.
Your friend Chuck
 
 

Bigbob glad to see you in here too. I owe you gents down under an update. I just finished up that bow. Put afloppy rest and leather handle wrap. I have too get the picks up on ozbow for you gents.
AKDan IWould think rose hip would work.  I was not making my owne stuff when I was in AK. I like to eat rose hip fruite myself. I would trh them. Use an open ended 3/8INCH wrench and see if you find them long big enough to try. This is my first try and pat gave me the shafts.
Chuck thanks for the pics. Iam going to ha e to google that red willow so Ill know if that is what i have here.

If I'm not mistaken...what folks refer to as red willow is actually red osier dogwood. I could be wrong though.
 Rosehips are the fruit that grows on all roses. Some have big hips(fruit) and others have small hips. The cane of the rose plant is what you use for arrows.
Rose hips are high in vitanin C!

Yep Pat it is and they grow all over AK and very large the fruit. But if remember they grow in single stems. But all over up there. I thought they called it rose hip up there because it was about hip hight.

Ok I have finished my first ever arrow. Thanks Pat. I really can't thank you enough for the help and materials you have give me.

Ok it is not the greatest but it is my first so I hope I can only go up from here.



29" shaft, grains of arrow and point who knows, turkey feathers for the fetching, and sinew to reinforce all the weak points.

I did not have any pine pitch so I just used the craft style hot melt.

now the killing end



and the steering end



and once I wrapped the sinew and pulled it back under itself I put a thin layer of tbIII over all of them.

Hope I think I really just got luck that it flies halfway straight.

Very nice Kelly..... ^5 Dude.. Roy

Awsome Kelly

Nice lookin' arras, Kelly. Glad you aren't wasting any time now you're home.

Outstanding work! Nice job, Kelley. Pat that was a kind and generous gesture. Jawge

Can somebody enlighten me on the use of a "shaft wrench?" I'm curious about this process, and have a feeling it will lead to more used up space in the garage and less POC arrows purchased.

It's just a short thin narrow tool with a hole cut in it a little bigger than the diameter of your arrow shaft. They are made from wood, bone, antler, etc. You slide it down over the arrow shaft and use it to put torque on the shaft where you want to straighten the shaft. It concentrates the pressure in one spot compared to using your hands.  

Pat, can you post a picture of yours?

Thanks Roy. Thats a good idea.

and really works well if the wood is heated so it is almost to hot to touch. You feel the wood give and stretch, but if it is cold wood and you fell it give well in my limited experience it means you just broke it in that spot. Don't ask me how I know.

Ok 6 of them ready to shoot. I will see how they fly tomorrow and if they fly well I will, just use watered down TBIII to seal them, and take them hunting.



Now to make some small game arrows, but that will wait a bit.

Looking good Kelly let us know when you down some game with 'em.

Nice Kelly..

Nicely done Kelly. If you find one or two of these arrows don't fly well, flip them over so the cock feather is in towards the bow. In many cases this will fix them. The ones that still don't shoot well make fluflus out of them.