What kind of shafts are you using?

 

I'm just priming the thread, wait until BowmanJay and reddogge post up...wow they do some nice work!

I like a white cap dip (spray bomb) and simple red or blue with black/gold highlights. Natural barred or white feathers.

Carbons on the left, woodies on the right. I don't have any pics of the arrows I usually shoot but they are ACCs painted the same as the carbons on the left only blue instead of red.

 

I like hybrid footed arras. Sitka spruce with ash footings. I like the old school look of green and brown but these came out just fine.

 

 

 

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I love the look of spliced feathers. Yours look very nice...:thumbs_up

 

Hello

You don't suppose you can tell where I can find instructions on how to make something
Like that.

I do glue my own but I've always wanted to do something like that.

 

Thanks Easy!

Here are some of mine...

 

All you need to know is how to splice as far as designing them the ball is in your court just start gluing them together ..the more you do the better they get..have fun

 

For overall ideas check out the pics posteed or go to the Leatherwall. There are "Arrows of..." 2009 through current. Always some nice work there to look at.

There are two methods for feather splicing.

Cut and butt.
Cut your feathers at a prescribed point and just butt the two pieces together and glue them on. You can also do this before you chop or burn your feathers.

The other is membrane splice
Usually used for the more detailed work and takes a lot more explanation than I can type.

 

membrane splice: https://www.rmsgear.com/store/pc/tutorial_feather_splicing.asp

 

Thanks Easykeeper but mine look very crude compared to some of these. I've always made a pretty simple arrow with simple cresting and now make them so I can see them fly. I prefer all white fletch for 3-D and all of my shooting companions "know" my crest and have found a couple of my arrows I dropped or lost and returned them to me. For hunting arrows last couple of years I went with the flourescent lime color.

Some woodies

Grandsons' arrows for their 30# bow.

My 3-D carbons after I changed most of them to all white fletch. These show up great in flight, in the animal and on the ground.

Hunting arrows.

I made my friend some "Ravens" arrows (as in Baltimore Ravens) footed in cocobolo with a cocobolo stain cap, purple and black fletch and purple, black, silver and white cresting that looked great but I can't ever get him to send me a picture.

 

Does doing all this affects on the arrow's working spine ?

 

Theoretically it probably does, but the effect is so small that for all practical purposes it does not. I'm pretty sure anything you do to an arrow shaft would affect it's dynamic spine to some degree.

It has been proven however that pretty arrows do result in higher accuracy...:wink:

 

Great looking arrows Bowman and reddogge.

I especially like top set posted by reddogge. I really like a green dyed barred (looks like natural barred?) feather and with the reverse look of red front, warn wood cap...makes a great and unique looking arrow.

 

I made these for a young friend of mine out of the last of my Carbon Vaporwood stash. Hand split, hand ground, hand dyed and burned wild turkey feathers. Very plain Jane but I knew he'd beat them up. Shore nuff, he broke and lost all but two in 6 months.

 

When you dye natural barred feathers what kind of dye do you use?

 

Kool aid, RIT, fly tying dyes (analine I think)

There's a Kool Aid how to on Outdoor Core

 

After viewing some of the magnificent art posted thus far on this thread, I have decided that it is high time to demonstrate that "less is more" (just kidding ... this is actually an example of "less is less").

Anyone who has previously been intimidated to post their artsy arrahs may now breath easily, for anything you post will certainly best this particularly pedestrian project.

This set of arrows were to be my cresting masterpiece to date. I had read of a unique staining technique using vinegar, steel wool, and tea to obtain a grey hue second to none. I performed the necessary steps and, indeed, the shafts were an amazing grey that looked like a weathered wooden fence. I was ecstatic! Complimentary cresting patterns begin forming in my imagination as I let the stain dry to begin the first couple of poly coats before the cresting.

As I wiped the poly (delicately and lovingly, I might add) down the first shaft, the heaven-sent hue of graceful grey immediately turned brown (as sadly pictured above). My mouth uttered unintelligible choking sounds and knees became wobbly. I wiped the poly down the second shaft ... brown again. I made up some new words at this point. Third shaft ... brown. Good humor returned as I realized that chemistry happens.

After a couple of dry-times with the batch of oddly-mottled brown shafts, it came time to crest. I was at a loss and drew a blank. There was no color-scheme juice in my disgruntled imagination. So I decided to salute my failure with the absolute bare minimum of a crest to serve as a warning to myself lest I attempt to fly too close to the sun again.

And wouldn't ya know it, the next week I was in the hardware store and Minwax had just come out with a new oil-based stain ... grey! I picked up a can and just finished a set of arrows using it. They are happily grey. Not the glorious vinegar/steel wool/tea formula grey of otherworldly sublimity, but grey, nonetheless.

Now, all ... post 'em up and take a stab at braggin' rights. I claim last place!

 

 

 

Thanks again EasyK. I really shoud try to shoot something with those arrows. Others online told me they would be bad for hunting arrows with the red shafts. I use Rit, and Great Northern feather dyes. Can't remember what those were.

 

Thanks guys, loads of ideas now. Some very fine splicing jobs here!

 

Is it possible to paint a spiral pattern along the whole shaft or would it throw off the dynamics of the arrow. I had the idea of a neon green spiral running from the behind the field point to the beginning of the fletchings, then 2 black or white feathers and a neon green cock feather and neon green nock... Thoughts?

 

Hard to replicate but no issue for dynamics.

 

The shaft doesn't know what color of clothing or fashion you are dressing it in ... whether subdued or flat-out gaudy. Paint weight and asymetric dispersion, in my opinion, would be so minimal as to be negligible.

You can certainly spiral your shaft as desired.

Now, an artistic Olympic archer would calculate the revolutions per second of the shaft, and then adjust the spiral's width to present a slow-motion kaleidoscope effect right at the apex of the trajectory in order to subliminally hypnotize the competition and force the crowd into using 3-D binoculars in order to see where the arrow has landed in the target. Hey, there's a patent and untold riches somewhere in that scheme!

 

Here's one for Dan in MI.

Why not? (Though they did squirt out of the Spinrite a few times due to their diameter.)

Had the Tru-oil out for another project, and knowing the unused portion would most assuredly dry up later, I decided to purtify these drum sticks while I was cresting some arrows.

They got the whole treatment ... still got the rottenstone residue under my fingernails as I type this.

How do they play? Well, let me tell you. They play every bit as good as I do ... and they paradiddle like darts!

Perhaps you can develop a diameter adapter for the Spinrite and market it for pool cues, javelins, folk with canes, and contractors forced to install exposed piping. Think of the riches, man!