So I've been a little busy...

[Al Kidner]

Over the past week or so I've been a tad busy with the renovations on the house that I'm doing but I did find the time to finally sit down and put some work into this little project that I've always wanted to try ....

[Coach]

That looks like a lot of work , why ?

[GrahameA]

Enjoy footing the arrows.

Great fun.

[timbow]

Good job Al ,that looks pretty great did you make the jig yourself and use a router.
Coach why not,thats what traditional is all about for me is making your own gear,just like you and your strings! and tattoos its all an art form.
its all good fun.
Have a look at some of Steve Wallaces work it is the best l,ve seen and he does it all by hand a real craftsman.

[Coach]

Good job Al ,that looks pretty great did you make the jig yourself and use a router.
Coach why not,thats what traditional is all about for me is making your own gear,just like you and your strings! and tattoos its all an art form.
its all good fun.
Have a look at some of Steve Wallaces work it is the best l,ve seen and he does it all by hand a real craftsman.

Yeah I know ,, but I just cant head my head round doing all that work to have it broken while out hunting .
to me it looks pretty , but arrows get broken so often , I just cant see the point . But thats just me , dont take offence , keep on building them

[Al Kidner]

So far I routed out a dozen ash shafts to anable me to foot them with the hard wood footings I have made up. I'm yet to put the cuts into the foots but will do soon enough. Here are some more pics...

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AK.

[UPTHETOP]

Al what type of wood are you using for the foots, hard and heavy by the looks of it ?

Cheers Wayno

[Al Kidner]

Hi mate,

The footing timber is Kewlia .... but I'm not that sure of the spelling though? I'd like to use move of a darker material in the future so I'm keeping my eye out.


AK.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

You're a real craftsman, Al!

[GrahameA]

Morning Al.

Is that a laminate trimmer or a small router you are using? I have always just used a router table but that photos of yours may have just convinced me to build a specialist tool/setup for the job - using a cheap router/laminate trimmer.

[Steven J]

Fantastic! Where did you get the arrow holding jig? Is it hard to realign the shaft 90 degrees to get an accurate footing?

Steve

[Al Kidner]

G'day Grahame,

mate all I did was buy a small trimmer router from Bunnings for about $90.00. The jig comes with a bit and Kingsley Honan and I built up the platform to run the jig along. It takes a bit of tweaking to get the depth and centering but a few test runs sorts that out easy enough.

Here is the link to the jig Steven:

http://www.3riversarchery.com/Arrow+Bui ... oduct.html

It comes with instructions but I feel you kinda need to fill in the gaps here and there with a little CDF.

I've also found that you need to pay some detail to the shafts and how close to being fully round. If there a tad ovel it can lead to more routed out then whats needed. Again test runs sort this out.

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I'll do a full "Foot-a-long" once I've finished up the whole process.


al.

[piggy]

Excellent work there Al will look forward to seeing the finished product.

Cheers

[gundy]

Mate, some great stuff. I wish I had the time!!!!!!!

Cant wait for more photos.

[wolfpac]

Great work !!
Have a look at what I'm working on .....

part 1

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[Steven J]

Wolfpac,

Welcome to the site. How on earth are you going to spit the footing to accept that shaft

Steve

[wolfpac]

Thanks for the welcoming words........I've been reading the forum for a while now but have never had anything interesting to add ......

I've split a rod into five using slitting saw and a dividing head on my milling machine but it wasn't perfect (hence lack of photo) - this bit I'm still working on

[Steven J]

Your Mad

Just wait 'till Coach gets a hold of you

Tell me more about the milling machine concept. I am begining to think that this may be one serious tool for precision wood working. Grizzly in the USA make a milling machine specifically for timber workers. It has a longer range of travel to account for the generally larger projects. What else do you use your machine for?

Steve

[wolfpac]

Steven

Fitter & Turner (toolmaker) by trade - at work Ive got a Bridgeport milling machine built for metal work but works well with wood. (in my spare time)
A dividing head like a lathe chuck that can be rotated accurately into any number of divisions, x5 , x6 or what ever number you need. I machined up a eight foot arrow but each foot/leg was to thin.
Five footed is a good/odd number which is hard to do bu still has detail

[Al Kidner]

Geez Mr Wolfpac.... that is something to look at. Best of luck!


AK.

[wolfpac]

Five footed prototype - shatered during finishing work .......

But .... the Twin-Tri Footed prototype worked.
Three 'legs' are 5" long - Three 'legs' are 2" long - now to make one that I can shoot ..........

[Gringa Bows]

welcome to the site wolfpac top job on the footed shafts mate.

[Coach]

Your Mad

Just wait 'till Coach gets a hold of you



Steve

Geez man ,, dont you like to actually shoot your arrows ??? Building those bastards would take up all your time I think you arrows builders are all bloody crazy

[GrahameA]

Wolfpac

Five footed prototype - shatered during finishing work .......

But .... the Twin-Tri Footed prototype worked.
Three 'legs' are 5" long - Three 'legs' are 2" long - now to make one that I can shoot ..........

A local Arrow maker - Steve Wallace - makes lovely footed shafts with the foot made from 4 different timbers! Works of art.

Sue - how about posting some pictures of Steves's masterpieces.

[buzz]

Madness. Sheer madness.

But carry on and don't pay any attention to me.

[wolfpac]

arn't we all just a little mad ...........

Everyone has talked about SWallace arrows - could someone post some photos or link so I/we can see some examples ?

[Al Kidner]

And I did this today with some shafts on hand also....

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al.

[GrahameA]

Nice spiral footings.

[piggy]

Al and wolfpac some great looking shafts there can't wait to see the finished products.

[Jaydo]

Very nice Al,

like the spiral footings, looks good with the darker footing and the light coloured shaft,

Wolfpac, Your insane