George Tsoukalas has some good instructions about making arrows from scratch on his site. http://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni/archer.html The way prices are going, I'm about to take up making my own arrow shafts too. I used to get cedar shafts in hundred lots for what you have to pay for a dozen now.[&o] But then, I remember when gas was 13 cents a gallon too.