In this video I’m putting my new workshop to the test by building a fresh set of arrows for a junior archer I help coach at my local club. He’d been shooting 300 spine arrows out of a 26–27lb bow and they were showing really weak, so we grabbed a set of Pandaras Infinity 4.2mm shafts (1000 spine) from Oakland Archery Supplies. Big shout-out to Richard up there—brilliant to deal with if you’re in NZ and need gear. I keep these arrows full length to start with, because I want to spine-test them properly at the club before we commit to cutting anything. The plan is simple: glue in the points, glue in the pins, fit the pin nocks, then fletch them up. I make all 12, but I only fletch 10 so he’s got two bare shafts for tuning. He’s still growing and his draw length is creeping out, plus we’re looking at a clicker in the near future, so I’d rather leave room to adapt the setup as his form improves. I also talk through why I swear by pins and pin nocks for protecting the back end of the shaft. Nothing is indestructible, but most of the time you’re just replacing a nock instead of binning an arrow—especially when you’re shooting a lot of arrows indoors.