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Shafts at Home Depot
hillbilly61:
In the process of trying to make 2. Got the handle glued on one today and will put the backing on sometime tomarrow :) Then glue up the 2nd handle. If the first fails then I have the second to not make that same mistake on ;D
hedgeapple:
Canoe, Yes, the 3/8 will be the smaller end. 3/8 seems to be as about the smallest diameter for self nocking. I really suck at making self nocks. Lately, I've be plugging the cane with a dowel, tapering the ends and using commercial nocks. Most of the time the cane and shoots are wider where they grow closest to the ground and get narrower up the shoot. This creates a natural tapered shaft.
El Destructo:
I have never made a Cane or Boo Arrow that was 3/8" at the Nocking End...that was under 80 Pound Spined....all of my Arrows are Spined for 50-60 pound Bows...and are betweem 1/4" and 5/16" at the NocKing End...and 3/8" to 7/16" at the Point End...I have always found that when 3/8" at the Nock End...they are way overspined for my 60 pound Selfbows.....JMO
hedgeapple:
El, I will differe to your experience and knowledge :) I'm still learning to match spine to bow. Some of mine arrows do seem a bit over spined while other seem pretty good.
I've seen the question anwered before on here, but couldn't find it last week when I did a search:
If the nock end leans to the left of impact is the arrow over spined or under spined
aero86:
Don't forget bamboo has a stiffer side. That's the side u wanna spine for
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