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Help ID these vintage arrows.

Started by ncheels, January 15, 2013, 10:32:00 AM

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ncheels

I have 2 sets of fiberglass arrows.  They are a darker brown but the only thing printed on them is "8".  From the pics, can you give me any info?  I have microflites that say "microflite".  Are these Duraflites?  Thanks for some feedback.

 
 

 
 
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raghorn

Possibly  Fleetwood. If you look real close back from the tip there is a line that angles back to the middle and then angles toward the nock end. Sometime s it can be seen and then other times.....
The Fleetwoods were a sheet of fiberglass that was wrapped around a mandrel.

Blackhawk

Ron, I have some similar to those brown ones, but mine are a dark green and with only the number (either 6 or 9) .  Were they made in different colors?  Do you determine the correct number?
Lon Scott

ncheels

Thanks Ron.  I'll check when I get home.
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raghorn

I don't have a chart for Dura glass like I thought I did nor an arrow.So ncheels and Blackhawk could be correct.The Fleetglas was classified by the ID

glas-lite was available in many colors and classified by Alpha letters as was Herters Farbenglas. MJ log and Gordon was done by numbers, either a single digit or HS55( hunting shaft 55#)
Graphlex was by color.

I do have some Micro flights that were stored in an attic with part of the shaft out of the box. That part got a darker brown from the heat/or UV(?) so the shaft was two toned.

Danny Rowan

I had some MJ log glass arrows that looked like that.
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reddogge

They look exactly like a couple of Dura-flight arrows I have downstairs but my numbers wore off. They are still in use as flu-flus.
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Cody Roiter

Guys, i think they are the Olympic glass arrows Glen st. Charles sold out of his archery shop, i have one signed by Glen he gave me,The arrow i have look like a dead ringer to the shafts in the photos.. Glen told me he developed his Olympic glass shafts.
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ncheels

Cody,
Can you give us some history of Glen St. Charles and his shop?  These arrows are quite vintage I was told, but the elder gentleman did not remember where specifically he got them from.  Only that he bought them new long ago.
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