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DC:
I'm messing with a bamboo arrow trying to get it to bareshaft nicely. Nock is cut and I marked one side as the potential cock fletch side. If I shoot it cock side out it hits nock left. If I shoot it nock side in it goes nice and straight. I put it on my spiner cock up and it spines as 40#, cock down its 35#. If I decide I want to scrape one side to reduce the 40# to 35# which side do I scrape, the tension side or the compression side?

BowEd:
Pat B might chime in here as to which side of bamboo a person normally puts against the bow with his experience with bamboo.Why not put your cock feather on the side where it shoots straight and call it good?Usually your stiffer side is against the bow on a shaft.

Pat B:
The stiff side of cane and hardwood shoots goes against the bow. I have still had a few arrows shoot better with the cock feather in towards the bow but generally the stiff side of the shaft goes against the bow.

DC:
Yes, I realised that. I just wanted to make an arrow that was the same spine no matter how it was oriented.

Pat B:
You can do that. Art Butner, the guy that taught how to make arrows would scrape cane so his arrows had the same spine on all sides. I don't go that far but it can be done.

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