I don't think a new arrow thread has been started this year. I've been really lagging behind lately, my brother passed away almost two weeks ago with liver cancer. So I've been helping sort out his hunting and fishing gear.

Here's a set of douglas fir arrows I finished today and they're heading to Texas tomorrow.

Tried a couple different colors on some 1816’s

Ron Condolences to you and family. A real nice job on the arrows.

Doc Bright colors look great

Those look great buddy, sorry to hear of your brother. Condolences to you and yours.

Got a dozen tapered cedar shafts to make a dozen once it warms up. Got my first set of natural barred turkey feathers to try out and some grizzly Bruins to mount on them to try. I’ve always just used farm raised so excited to try natural ones. Mostly for looks though as farm raised barred just don’t look the same. Trying to find some cresting paint to match the Bruins as they are different color than I’ve ever seen on broad heads. Kinda gonna go for a retro or something different this batch of arrows.

Made a batch of everyday arrows. I'm feeling the urge to make up some better dressed ones now.

My Condolences Ron prayers for the family.

Tundra

Paul I love that color combo! I feel orange nocks contrast well!

Very sorry Ron!

Port Oxford cedar.

Surewood Douglas fir. These are orange and yellow and the arrows above the are red and white. Must have been my lighting.

First of 2022 River Cain shaft. Obsidian point. White tail sinew and pitch glue.

Other end

Cherokee two fletch with wild turkey fan tails. Sinew wrapped.

Bjrogg

How do you folks go about laying out or designing your cresting patterns. Do you just ad lib it as you go along? Or do you have a standard pattern you always use? Or do you decide exactly what you're going to do ahead of time and make a template to use on your cresting jig?

Personally all I ever decide ahead of time is the colors I am going to use. Then I start spinning shafts and laying on stripes in some sort of symmetrical pattern.

I know some of you don't crest at all and just make relatively bare working arrows.

Mine are red and blue. Just a pint of each water base and I’ve had them for years.

I usually spray a coat of clear satin first. Then put on my markings. Then seal them under a few more coats of clear satin.

Mine I have a couple additions besides strips.

Usually I use a fish tail curvy line and dots randomly placed.

I usually put them in the fletch area.

Bjrogg

I kinda wing it. But do look all over for ideas and inspiration before I do them.

Ron I'm sorry for your loss. I've made few also for a archery league that starts soon. GT Blemished 400 cut 29" with 100gr brass inserts and 125gr points.

Guess I've joined the sideways picture club.

Wow, classy looking arrows on here, you'll do exceptional work!

Super nice arrows guys, Ron im so sorry for your family's loss. Hang in there

You guys have real talent.

I don’t think I will have issues seeing these. Finished today. For my new LB.

Condolensces to you and the family, Ron.

Jim, those look awesome. As do many arrows here.

This is a set Suzanne St. Charles just finished for me. I asked her to make em to represent my golden retriever, Honey. The shaft and cresting are to match his coat colors... white to golden to tan. The fletching are fun colors b/c he's so much fun. Pink for his tongue, blue for his color and favorite color of toys. Black nocks for his nose. I think she knocked it out of the park.

Prayers for you and you're family Ron.

Been working on a few myself

I don’t know why it took me so long to try the two fletch. I made a couple recently that I gave as Christmas and birthday presents. I like how they look and it’s a pretty simple process once you learn it.

I decided to make a target arrow to see how they flew.

I straightened out a river cane shaft and wrapped both ends with sinew. I drilled a hole in shaft so a pole barn spike fit just tight in it. I cut spike head off and shorten it till I had 165 grains. I cut my self notches and shaped them how I like em.

Then I shot it bareshaft. It showed slightly weak so I trimmed a little more off spike. I got it tuned to my liking and used wild turkey tail feathers and a Eastern Cherokee two fletch style.

I was really surprised with this arrow. I was expecting a noisy arrow with a lot of drag. I think this is the quietest arrow I have ever shot. And it seems pretty fast to.

I don’t know why it took me so long for the first one, but it certainly won’t be as long for the next.

Bjrogg

Point end. Pole barn spike

Bjrogg

Anyone use white stain for there cap instead of paint? I didn’t even know they made white stain. But I bought some to try. Probably will need a lot of Coates I’m sure wanna try it I guess.

I'm nowhere near as talented as many of you but I just finished my latest batch of reusable bullets.

OH MY! Love ME some Purdee ARROWS! Keep it going!

Batman x2

These are mine for this year. 55-60 Douglas fir, parallel, 3X5" fletching, and AAE nocks. I've been using 3" 4 fletch and tail tapered shafts, but I wanted to simplify a little. Also, I will have a dedicated bow to shoot "any arrow" class at 3-D, so I'll only shoot wood arrows from my primary bows. Tail tapering allowed me to use the same nocking point for wood and smaller diameter aluminum or carbon arrows.

Give away arrows I made

This is a set Gold Tip Trads I refurbished for a fella.

A set of white Classics that went to Pennsylvania the other day.

A set of red Classics headed to upstate New York this week.

Fluflu's that are also headed to New York.

Bjrogg, nice arrows. Oregon TK, you definitely have an eye for handsome crests. Very nicely done. Thanks for photos gents.

Beautiful job Oregontk!!! Love the red ones

In answer to the usage of white stain. I have used one called limed oak by Cabot stains. These I stained the whole shaft and a simple crest. Used mostly for target and stump shooting. You can really see them well in flight. Shafts are old stock poc 23/64 rear tapered to 5/16th.

Purdy sweet arrows

Another one in progress

Bjrogg

Haft with pitch glue and sinew

Bjrogg

Some real works of art guys! Job well done.

Bjrogg those are awesome!! Would love to get a set to hunt with someday. Obsidian looks so mean! If that is obsidian anyways. Either way very nice

Lets keep going!

Thanks guys. There’s some beautiful arrows here.

I will see if I can sneak out to my shop and finish this one up today. This arrow just plain makes me want to shoot something. I think it’s the nicest head I’ve ever made. It’s very sharp. I think sharper than the steel points I’ve taken deer with in the past. I was sanding the river cane shaft and got a little careless. I accidentally brushed the point with my hand and ended up with a good bleeder. Sorry no pictures.

This one has pass through written all over it

Bjrogg

PS keep all the beautiful pictures coming. Always enjoy seeing them

Nice work guys. BJ, that thing looks wicked!

Wow guys real nice

Beautiful craftsmanship guys.

Jim I'd be sneezin' away every shot.

Not a arrow here, but it’s going to arrow related

A piece of driftwood.

Bjrogg

Put some linseed oil on driftwood and a piece of wood I reclaimed from a pallet for is base. Have to let it dry the I’ll glue them together.

Bjrogg

Here’s the tail

Here’s everything together. If I’m posting to many pictures please tell me. These things are alway so hard to capture with one picture.

Bjrogg

A couple more. Bjrogg

I don’t build much lately but had all these spare parts around the house. The shafts sat a couple of days underwater during hurricane Harvey, rubberbanded together. Lucky I didn’t throw them away; I did toss the quiver but a friend took it off the trash pile and brought it back to life. Spruce shafts.

The points were in the flood to. Most archery stuff sat in rusting piles as there were more important tasks, like a year of home rebuilding.

I had coyote hunting in mind for them, it’s that time of year, so I labeled some for the task.

Felipe so glad you were able to save some of the stuff. Floods are no joke and water can cause some serious damage. Sounds like you might be pass the worst of it. Great arrows!

That was a nice save. They sure don’t look like they went through a flood. Good Luck with the coyotes.

Biscuit those look really nice. I’m just looking on my phone. Is that some kind of camo wrap on the front. Looks great from here

Bjrogg

Bjrogg that is a great idea for drift wood. I have access to a lot of driftwood and will keep my eye out for a piece myself.

Tim I have a farm that goes right up the the lake. It’s kinda ice and snow now, but pretty soon I’ll be seeing what the big lake washes up for me. It’s always interesting and I can never carry it all home, but I try.lol

I like using it for displaying my knives, arrows and fore shafts . Never know what you’ll find. Zebra mussel shells, duck decoys, turtle shells and driftwood.

Bjrogg

A dozen for 3D season coming up next week

Wow! amazing craftsmanship gents,, Jazz and Matt B,, those are too pretty to shoot,,lol... anybody still doing aluminum customs... my draw weight is way down, from 65 easy to 40 lbs,,, yeah it stinks.. I have shot a few carbons?? I don't know what to think right now..

I have some pretty cobalt blue X7s that I really like,, but a very short supply makes me hesitant to get them out and play with them..

Working on another one

Hoping to finish these before the weekend

And these. I’ll be busy. ;>)

Very nice.

Very nice arrows every one Prayers to you and you're family Ron

Amazing work all! I'm just about to start messing with 100 POC shafts and love seeing this creativity.

Bjrogg, your turkey feather 2 fletch now has me wondering if I even need a jig and purchased feathers. Beautiful stuff Brian!

About to start teaching me niece and nephew archery so sbschindlers arrows just the post above would be a good choice. Great visibility Steve! How did you do the feathers, dye?

Caveman I have one Two Fletch target arrow I’ve been shooting and I don’t see anything not to like about it so far.

I’ve been very pleasantly surprised by it.

Flies like a dart

And quite as a owl.

Really exactly the opposite of what I was expecting

I probably should make a couple more target arrows just to make so it isn’t a fluke, but I’m very happy with it.

Bjrogg

wow...what beautiful arrows... I just rebuilt a few because I couldn't see them in flight. They were black/orange and now they are white crown and pink...I can see them much better... I think they will be OK for 20 year old POC arrows. :)

Great looking arrows guys!

A couple of sets I turned out this week . . .

Have a Blessed day all! Michael

The second set . . .

Some real nice work here guys. Thanks for the photos!

Have the front wrapped with sinew.

Bjrogg

Nice arrows all around! I've been making arrows for next season myself, I hadn't fetched any for years, just using up all the old stuff up. I finally got the itch again.

Duraflite #11

My daughter in law is a ag. Teacher and FFA Advisor. They are having their banquet and a silent auction tomorrow.

I promised her I would donate a arrow and stand last week. Been really busy farming, but I tried to do just a little every day.

I think it turned out nice.

Clear coat is still drying but it going to be ready for auction.

I think it’s some kind of jasper I knapped a couple weeks ago. Nice stuff and really pretty.

River cane shaft.

Point haft with sinew and pitch glue

Wild turkey tail feathers and a Eastern Cherokee two Fletch

I really like it. Might have to bid on it myself.

Bjrogg

Dura-flite #11

My aluminum arrows I made for my Bear Super Magnum this year.

Been at for a few weeks getting some arrows out

Made this set for the Traditional Archers of Oregon to raffle or auction off at the Western States Rendezvous.

Gary Dhall your arrows are works of are.

Some real good looking arrows in this thread.

Pretty stoked how these came out

Sweet!

That’s a lot of really pretty arrows that are already bringing joy to a lot of people.

Bjrogg

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Man! I thought I was somebody once I learned to fletch....but the stuff on this thread is bomb diggetty!

Yellah nocks, I agree!

I’m still drooling over those green arrows!

All great, wish I had that talant.

Beautiful arrows guys. Brian Those are very special

I’ve been collecting stuff for this arrow for several years. Everything on it came from my farm.

I collected the red osier several years ago and straightened it until it seems like it’s staying straight. I like red osier but it doesn’t like to stay straight.

The pine pitch glue I made from trees on my farm.

White tail sinew from deer harvested from my farm.

Wild turkey tail feathers from my farm.

The hardest to find. The chert I used to knap the point. Technically it came from the local stone quarry but I found it on the windmill rd on my farm.

I’m hoping to use it to take a deer from my farm with a Selfbow I made from tree on my farm and nature string .

Got everything except the string now.

I don’t usually name my arrows but this one is special to me.

“Farm Fresh” seemed appropriate

Bjrogg

Very nice quality chert from the local quarry. It’s hard to find pieces that I’m able to use as it’s been run through crusher and it’s pretty rare.

Nice point though

Tail feathers and two fletch

Bjrogg

Made these for my granddaughter

Been too busy to post any pics lately. Lots of splicing and dying feathers.

Made up this batch today. They are not much to look at but they really leave a mark.

Nothing fancy just meat and potatoes.

Meat and potatoes with a bit of color.

JJ

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