i just purchased a arrow cutting saw off of ebay and was wondering if anyone can give me some feed back on how to build a jig to accomidate cutting arrows of different lengths.its like a minature miter saw

If you have this saw,

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=42307

building an adjustable (length) arrow rack is not impossible but will not be a simple task. Using a "chop" saw to cut shafts will a bit more cumbersome and time consuming. In addition, the saw arm and blade must be perfectly stable…no side movement.

Also important is to make sure that blade is absolutely sharp so that the blade will cut the shaft without having to apply much down pressure. Otherwise, you could crimp the end being cut.

You may end up putting time and money into building an accurate and stable rack to mount with the saw, and end up with something that is to much trouble to use and does not properly cut your shafts.

At $20 that saw is a heck of alot cheaper than what the normal arrow saws go for. If a rack could be designed to fit it, and others like it, then somebody could really stand to profit from it.

This is what I came up with. It is a 11,000 RPM motor and a leg section from some (shelf) racking. This was a damaged chain saw chain grinder, I just built a 2x4 frame and found the layout that seems to work the best for me. I designed lots of adjustments into this unit also. The motor base is hinged so it functions as a chop saw as well. This baby cuts 0 to 45 or so inches and makes a perfect edge. Making threaded adaptors and stabilizer studs and stuff like that is a precision operation with this saw, pretty spiral end slices and you can usually run a nut on with your fingers without further dressing. I'm really liking this thing.





-Chief