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Old 08-12-2017, 04:39 PM
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If you want to build your own shafts you only need a dowel cutter and a compression block like these.




Problem is you have to cut a lot of shafts to get enough with the same consistent spine. We also don't have a lot of good arrow wood around Alberta but tamarack works pretty good.

If you just want to assemble arrows I used to buy my shafts from surewood arrows and they are among the best in the business... Unless you can find some of the old forgewood shafts from days gone by.

If your making your own fletching just use the primary feathers from a few Canadian honkers as they make some very durable, extremely waterproof fletching although I'm still partial to an unprocessed wild turkey feather as they're at least as durable as a commercial vane and provide much more guidance over a large broadhead while simultaneously weighing less and looking better.

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If you need a dowel cutter and compression block I would sell mine as I dropped out of Trad a few years ago when we started having kids.
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