How to make a shooting board make your own arrow shafts for warbow longbow arrows 

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Glad it helped! what other methods have you tried?

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Welcome aboard! Hopefully some of the other vids come in handy too, check out the website www.howtomakealongbow.co.uk and see the arrow making section.

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Thanks for the kind words, we will get round to doing a video on that one day.

Use a shorter version of this device and plane away.

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It's perfect thank you, I find parallel really hard to do :-), I think a 32 sided shape is nearly a circle :-)

It's up to you.

Thanks. We sell ash shafts that are suitable for bows of that weight, so yes, Ash would be good.

Very interesting, anyone who makes arrows is a fletcher, keep up the good work

I also use european dogwood, but as a very thick shoot, half an inch or more thick. My method is to straighten them as much as I can with the bark still on over hot coals in a clay heatbox, you need a lot of heat for thicker shafts and bark protects the inner wood. After that I debark them on a shooting board with a handplane, this takes out not only minor bends but the bumps also. The shaft is always round, never squared like in this video. Then I make minor adjustments over a low heat and then plane to final dimensions. For me, straightness became not something that you make, but something that you pick from a large amount of raw shafts that have been sitting for awhile. Also, my shooting board is a bit shorter so a couple of inches of the arrow protrude at the back, that way I can rotate it more easily.

Interesting, nice to hear.

"Nor have I ever gotten good with a block plainer." .. the problem with block plane (well all hand planes really, and just my experience so ...) is that you are better off either taking the plunge and buying Lie Nielsen or Veritas or getting a good (old) second hand one for mid-price. There seems no middle ground for brand new - either very expensive or complete garbage.

Brilliant, thanks.

I could, but there are loads of woodworking videos who have dealt with sharpening etc, I am not sure it would be worth my time as my video would be no different, thanks for the input though, its greatly appreciated.

You could adapt the method I used on this arrow...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WlHQ1jW--tM.html

Hi, we mention it in various videos, not a specific one though, sorry.

They had glue, just wasn't waterproof, they may well have used a solid piece of wood etc.

Sorry, I dont know of any wood supliers in the US.

I am unaware of what a "Veritas dowel maker" is exactly, but, suffice to say, this is a traditional method of making shafts, there are no doubt plenty of other methods.

Sorry for late reply, we use Poplar available in the UK, not sure what you have there. As long as its good grained.

Either is fine, the ones we used were sawn.

Split them first, well oversized. Warping will be inevitable, however because they are oversized, you can simply plane each piece nice and straight to compensate before you begin processing them into shafts.

Not really, you can feel how stiff a shaft is after years of practice, there is nothing to suggest fletchers had spine testers in the period that these type of arrows were made, thats not to say they didnt, byt its more likely they tested by feel. Having said that, most shafts of this diameter are so high in spine that they suit heavyweight bows, I rarely find a light spine shaft in this diameter, also they are so heavy in physical weight that they come ou tof the bow fine anyway.

You have edited your original question, so I am now a bit confused. We use Ash or Poplar for Medieval style arrows.

Perhaps you could ask your local wood shop to cut soem blanks for you.

Brilliant!!!

Because the majority of arrows we have to get any real consensus from are the Mary Rose arrows which are Tudor it's hard to say a particular length of a Medieval Arrow, I would guess anywhere between 29" and 32" approx

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For small measurements mm are superior imo. Inches and feet better for longer measurements. I grew up with both.