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Arrow weight
WillS:
You're more than welcome to try taking 10 grams of lead sheeting and fitting it inside an arrow socket while still having enough socket left to glue a point into strongly, and not completely changing the balance of the arrow... Let me know how it goes ;-)
I'm with you on the modifying thing though.
meanewood:
I do the same as adb during the making stage and make up weight shortfalls by adding more coats of finish to lighter arrows.
It is possible to add quite a bit that way!
WillS:
Thanks for that! It was something i had thought of, but I use oil and wax only for my shafts, so adding varnish on some would spoil the set! Are you able to work out how many coats it would need to add 10 grams? It's a fairly large amount.
For what it's worth, one piece of lead wire would need to be 180mm long to reach 10grams!
Thesquirrelslinger:
--- Quote from: WillS on August 24, 2013, 06:44:12 pm ---You're more than welcome to try taking 10 grams of lead sheeting and fitting it inside an arrow socket while still having enough socket left to glue a point into strongly, and not completely changing the balance of the arrow... Let me know how it goes ;-)
I'm with you on the modifying thing though.
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You can usually get almost 10g if you are really careful(and its a 3/8ths shaft and you bore 1.5" deep, 1/8th wide... and your points are shaped like mine and if you glue them on with epoxy) yes, it does massivly change the balance.
adb:
I tried that route, and it severely effected the FOC balance, and I found the cast was negatively effected.
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