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PK:
I'm having Sometimers and can't figure out what size to make tradepoints that would be a match for an arrow spined at 50 to 60 # Arrow
I just got 3/64 " bandsaw blade material from this Bowyer friend and I have a couple pieces of 1/16 " .I want to send The Bowyer friend an arrow that has a 1/16" thick trade point.I dont want to make it to big or to small.
Please help i just spent 3 hours shredding Sinew and I got only one blister. ???

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DanaM:
PK Howard Hill believed in the 3 to 1 ratio, so if its 3" long then it has to be 1" wide.

Hillbilly:
No "official size" for trade points. As for length/width ratios, you've got the 2:1 camp and the 3:1 camp. I like to split the differnce and make 'em about 2 1/2" x 1". NC requires broadheads to be at least 7/8" wide, so an inch gives you several sharpenings worth of breathing room.

david w.:
Thanks PK is was just about to post the same question but then i saw this.  You saved me typing ;)

Kegan:
It doesn't matter- as long as it is, like Hillbilly said, legal. Getting the "ferrule" (usually the wood) as close to the tip as you can seems to improve the funciton. Something about an inch so away- and no more than two. I made my last ones 1 1/4" wide by 2 1/2" long, but that was to get the most point out of the piece of metal I was using. Thicker the metal fartehr away from the tip you can be.

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