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Hi all,
Has anyone made their own arrow tubes?
Cheers,
Chris
Has anyone made their own arrow tubes?
Cheers,
Chris
Home made arrow tubes
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I used a tube that was in my fishing hold all, just cut it down to size.
I used a tube that was in my fishing hold all, just cut it down to size.
A cheap arrow storage solution. We have an A0 plotter at work, and the paper we use comes on rolls. There were a few empty boxes that the rolls come in lying around waiting to be binned, with a number of empty cardboard tubes (no ends unfortunately).
The tubes easily hold around 4 wood arrows, and 6 alloy arrows. With 5 tubes in a box, that's storage for around 20 wood or 30 alloy arrows. The only thing is that I had to cut some of the box end flaps off, bind them together with some gaffa tape (about ?5 a roll from Maplins), and put them on the bottom of the box as reinforcement/pile cushion.
Could do with finding some end pieces for the tubes, so I can use them to transport arrows.
The tubes easily hold around 4 wood arrows, and 6 alloy arrows. With 5 tubes in a box, that's storage for around 20 wood or 30 alloy arrows. The only thing is that I had to cut some of the box end flaps off, bind them together with some gaffa tape (about ?5 a roll from Maplins), and put them on the bottom of the box as reinforcement/pile cushion.
Could do with finding some end pieces for the tubes, so I can use them to transport arrows.
I've been using plastic tennis cans at my summer camp (I'm told, this is a little like a holiday camp in England, but not exactly.). I cut the bottoms off some, then put about 4 slits up the side so they will fit over another can since one can is a little too short. I then duct tape them together. I put a number of these inside a plastic milk crate.
The tennis program had lots of cans they wanted to get rid of, so it worked out for me.
The tennis program had lots of cans they wanted to get rid of, so it worked out for me.
Fishing rod tubes. Buy 6' ones and an extra set of end caps. Cut in half. Survived flying to Oz and back, lightweight, cost about ?2.50 a tube.
bristolianish
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I am new to the sport an pretty much having to do everything on the cheap. I acquired some really stout cardboard tubes from the local fabric shop for free - they are the sort found in the centre of rolls of cloth. Two pieces of foam from an old sponge. Two round red coffee jar lids fitted the tube ends exactly and one was glued into position as the base. The tube was painted matt black and some 1.5 inch red webbing (55pence) made a shoulder strap. It holds eight arrows easily, looks swish and cost me under a pound.
Yes, I used a 3" postal tube that some of my shafts came in, covered in Gaffa tape.
works well but not the most beautiful
I made 3 quivers , 1 out of an cardboard tube that i got from the local cinema ( posters come in them) for free, and 2 out of a tube that some arrow shaft came in bought some leather from a local fabric shop (?15 gave me enough for 3 quivers and one handle wraps for 3 pvc bows, and 2 tabs ( which i made by cutting out a tab shape twice and gluing together - tube was too thin) and I bought 3 leather belts from a charity shop for a fiver.
the leather had been treated to look like snakeskin, so they made the main body, and and put a strip around the top suede skin up around the top on 1. and a black fake leather strip around the top on the others.
worked really well, initially i made this for my daughter , along with a pvc bow and half a dozen arrows. ( all of which i have learnt how to make in the last couple of weeks)
I will get some pics up at soem point over the Christmas period
the leather had been treated to look like snakeskin, so they made the main body, and and put a strip around the top suede skin up around the top on 1. and a black fake leather strip around the top on the others.
worked really well, initially i made this for my daughter , along with a pvc bow and half a dozen arrows. ( all of which i have learnt how to make in the last couple of weeks)
I will get some pics up at soem point over the Christmas period
I use a postal tube for transporting my arrows to a shoot and made this to stop them rattling around inside. It holds a dozen arrows.
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buzz lite beer
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Very similar to a one I made a few years back:-
I have NEVER had so many compliments on a piece of kit as I have on Buzz's amazing tube insert. It's the dog's whatnots. I LOVE IT!!!! It was only the prototype, but it's the shizzle. Before any of you go out and copy this, BUZZ HAS THE COPYRIGHT ON THE DESIGN. I hope it makes him a very rich man indeed! If I didn't thank you at the time (I'm sure I did), thanks for this ingenius, fabulous, helpful piece of kit!!!
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I have a system like the one Buzz has made. It is a very compact way of keeping arrows. I have mine with alternate arrows having fletchings at the top and bottom, so they take up even less room. Mine is very scruffy by comparison though.
Bare shafts go down the centre tube. I carry those for demonstration purposes only; at 90m.
No one has ever asked to use them so far!
Bare shafts go down the centre tube. I carry those for demonstration purposes only; at 90m.
No one has ever asked to use them so far!
Anglian Archer
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Like some others in this thread I've been buying black plastic 6ft 2.5" tubes (sold online as rod tubes) and cutting them in half. Each tube comes with two red end-caps, so I buy plastic 2.5" blanking caps to seal off the open ends. I store six arrows in each, but you can fit in eight if you want, for example if you were taking them out to the range.