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Finished my arrows for the 2020 season

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Darren Haverstick:
Over the weekend, I finished my arrows for the upcoming season. I ordered a dozen mahogany shafts from Kevin Forrester and he threw in four aspen shafts for me to try out.

Here they are with the nock and point tapers on them.


I then spent a few days flame cresting them.


I love the grain of the mahogany so I used a light stain to bring it out.


Then the fun part began, painting the shafts. I used to do this myself but my wife had so much fun helping me last year that I let her do it all this year. She did a phenomenal job!




It took a few more days, and several coats of polyurethane, to get them sealed to my satisfaction.


Then another couple days fletching them.


And now I have the finished product. 190 grain field points and 190 grain Meathead broadheads. The average arrow weight is around 660 grains. Come on September 15th!



Darren

Spotted Bull:
Beautiful work there. Those are really cool!

BEAVERMAN:
 :hairy Turkey fletched?

Nessmuk:
Too beautiful, Darren. I'd  be afraid to shoot one for fear of losing it.

 :hairy

Darren Haverstick:

--- Quote from: BEAVERMAN on August 11, 2020, 12:12:48 PM --- :hairy Turkey fletched?

--- End quote ---

Could be. It's whatever critter Gateway and TrueFlight are using to get their feathers from.

Darren

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