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Spining shoot arrows
Pat B:
I'm using mostly sourwood and there are few knots along the shaft. A rasp might work better for you if the knots are a problem.
The butt(big) end is the point end. You want the forward weight to help keep them flying well. Also with them tapering toward the feathers you get better clearance around the bow when shot. If you are spine testing your shoots, you can reduce spine weight by up to 10 lbs just for the tapered shaft. Pat
Hillbilly:
If you're having problems with the thumb plane tearing the knots, reduce the cutting depth. It took me a while to figure out that must of my planing problems came from trying to take off too much wood at once.
BigWapiti:
Thanks for the info guys, i'll give all that a go.
JackCrafty:
How's it going with your shoot arrows?
As for me, I mess up the shafts with a hand plane so I use sandpaper. I used to glue or tack down the sandpaper to a flat surface and then move the arrow shaft across it. Now I use a belt sander. >:D
I always debark, season, straighten, smooth, straighten again, and then sort by weight (in that order). I can adjust the weight with more sanding....but I make sure that the diameter matches closely with others of the same weight. Then I straighten again just before I spine.....then shoot to weed out the "crazy" ones. Sometimes I can fix the crazy ones with more sanding or by re-orienting the nock.
If I don't know the spine I need (for a new bow) then I skip that part and just "test by fire" until I find the right arrow. Then I measure the spine on that sucker and go from there.
BigWapiti:
Thanks Patrick,
Well, it was going great ... up until I decided to put a finish sanding touch on them... (should I even say this??) ...was hand sanding and they were looking good, then i found one shaft with a lump in it that the sand paper wasn't touching. Ah hah, i thought... there stood my drill. got the brilliant idea to put the shaft in the drill and give it a spin... cool, I thought. wrapped the sand paper around the shaft and set it to spinning - was working great until the sand paper bound, the drill kept spinning and my thumb was sucked in and around the shaft (it can happen, i'm proof). I'm not typiing with my engorged thumb wrapped in gauze, surely to lose my blackened thumbnail. All for the sake of speed.
So, my shafts are still shafts, lining up on my wood bench, drill still on the floor...
::) ;D
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