Who builds their own arrows?

[weaver]

Build my own and do some for friends as well.

 

[Travis Bertrand]

How else are you going to get groovy wraps like these if you don't build your own?

 

[c5mrr270]

Other than building strings I do everything archery related myself...

I'm with you there. I got tired of shops not living up to my expectations. So building arrows, tuning, etc., I all do myself.

 

[ORbowhunter869]

Always fletch my own, take no chances.

 

[a3dhunter]

I usually have them cut at a shop and then build them from there.
I have used the Arizona EZ fletcher before and have learned to hate it, will soon be buying a better fletching jig.

 

[Ozz08]

I usually have them cut at a shop and then build them from there.
I have used the Arizona EZ fletcher before and have learned to hate it, will soon be buying a better fletching jig.

Really? What do you hate about it? I love my ez fletch mini. I sold the blitzenburger I had cause I stopped using it when I got the ez fletch. I got a second ez fletch mini and I can blow through a dozen arrow like nobody's business. Never had any adhesion problems and my arrows look good when I'm done.

 

[OBP]

I have been doing mine for years. I used a bitz for a few years but switched to the bohning blazer jig a couple years and haven't looked back. The blazer jig has much less room for error and ensures every fletch is in the exact same position.

 

[SkinnyPete]

I have been "rolling my own" for years. That way I can choose my wraps, fletch colors, nock color and make sure they are RIGHT to my standards. I run a Jo-jan multi fletch, onestringer custom wraps and blazers. Nothing super exciting, but they are mine and they are another notch on my confidence scale.

 

[Lukem]

Had the shop do my first batch. Watched them and thought, that's too easy to pay anybody to do. Done them ever since.

I even built my own arrow saw. It's a dremmel strapped to a modified 1x2, a tape and a C clamp. Cost me about $67, and $60 of it was the Dremmel. Not pretty, but it's simple and it works.

I find doing things myself to be much more satisfying. Part of the reason why I cook over a cat food can in the backcountry.

 

[Danielboone]

Building up some Kinetic 200's tonight and was curious who else builds/fletches their own and who takes them to a shop?

I love the Kinetic 200s. I have built my own arrows for many years and always enjoy doing so. I shoot mostly Black Eagle arrows in 250 spine now. When I hunted exclusively with a longbow, I made my own cedar arrows, which was always time intensive.

 

[bowuntr]

I've been building my arrows for 27 years... Ed F

 

[Jared Lampton]

I now do everything except build strings. A buddy and I went in on a bow press and a chrono a few years ago and built my own draw board. I got tired of the inconvenience of having to take my bow to a shop to have anything done. Building arrows and doing all my own tuning gives me full responsibility for my set up - to me it makes success more rewarding...

 

[Danielboone]

I now do everything except build strings. A buddy and I went in on a bow press and a chrono a few years ago and built my own draw board. I got tired of the inconvenience of having to take my bow to a shop to have anything done. Building arrows and doing all my own tuning gives me full responsibility for my set up - to me it makes success more rewarding...

Same here. I do it all too except build strings. I learned that no one puts the care into it as much as me.

 

[Solitude]

Really enjoy the arrow building process. Can't explain it, but the more items I tinker with, build and tune on my bow the closer I become/feel with my bow and more confident I am during the moment of truth. Use the AZ Mini, a wrap and blazers. If you do not build I strongly suggest you start!

 

[Rolo]

Been building my own since the early 90's.

 

[goodgrouper]

Aron, do you really use an Asus laptop for a workbench?

 

[Aron Snyder]

I did last night, but that's not the norm

I have a table set up, but I was to lazy to clean it!

 

[RUTTIN]

Got tired of fletchings falling off years ago. I have mine cut at a shop as I don't have an arrow saw. I tried cutting them with a dremel tool once didn't work to well. I use a small wrap, blazer vanes and a Bohning Blazer Helix jig. Do you guys find that wraps help your vanes stay on? I haven't had a problem with them coming off since I started using wraps.

 

[Bigfeet]

Building my own for years. Get to choose your own colors, wraps, etc and there is a certain pride that comes with it. Plus you can easily repair any arrows with torn up fletch.

A note on the jig. I saw above one person hated the Arizone EZ fletcher, the next liked it. I tried the EZ fletcher years ago, when doing aluminum. Hated it! The ends of the vanes never contacted the shaft - so they always peeled. So I went to a single fletch Bohning jig, which I used for years. Last year, after reading lots of good reviews, I decided to give the Arizona EZ mini fletcher a try. For the short vanes, it works great. Three at a time, perfect helical. If anyone is wondering about this jig, I'd say you'd be very pleased with Arizona EZ mini fletcher.

 

[Hardstalk]

I dont do wraps. Became a hassle when I cut a fletching. I shoot with broadheads 6 months a year. Maybe overkill. But leaves me with alot of confidence.