Recent content by AkDan

Mike, Arrow spine is what make them fly true, along with whats called helical fletching. Basically your feathers spine the shaft much like rifling in a rifle bore. If all is done correctly the 4 points come out as close to the same as you can see with the nakid eye which is more then close...

Paul, These are actually arrows for archery. The length I have to turn down is 8 3/4"es, not the complete shaft. If you look at the webshots link, go to foots page (very bottom of the few links there), the very first picture shows the square stock mounted onto the round stock. The square...

well I found that other lathe. Its in the Lee Valley Catalog. Its still a 9 and 3/4" between center lathe. It just looks different then the micro lathe on Taigs web page. Not sure if there is any signifigant differences or not. So I did some measuring. My stock to be rounded is 8 & 3/4"es...

The square stock sections are roughtly 10"es. Total spliced billet (round stock with square spliced on) is 34"es max. The taig lathes look extremely nice, no doubt, but are just a wee bit out of my price range unless I can find one used. The one fella that emailed me the other day emailed...

could use some help on turning. These are not pool cues but the building is extremely similar and any help given would be greatly appreciated. WHat I am doing is taking 23/64ths soft wood dowels, splicing on square hard wood stock via 4 90 degree V grooves, creating 4 points just like on cues...