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DC:
Sorry to bring this up again but I seem to have a mental block about it. I put my arrow in the spine checker and check the spine at various positions as I rotate it. I find the position where the spine meter reads the highest and mark the top of the arrow(that would be the concave side). Do I put the mark against the bow?

Hawkdancer:
Doc
The stiff side to the bow seems to be the conventional wisdom with shoots, at least, but I am probably the least experienced arrow/bow maker here.  That is what I am doing.
Hawkdancer

DC:
I guess I wasn't very clear. What I'm trying to find out for sure is which is the "stiff side". I tend to overthink things and in my mind "stiff side" can have a few meanings. I also have it in my mind which way the arrow should go and it seems to contradict how I'm interpreting "stiff side to the bow".

RBLusthaus:
Generally (read - in a  perfect world)  the arrow nock should be perpendicular to the shaft grain, and the shaft grain should be horizontal as it sits on the bow shelf - and the top of the Arrow (concave) as it was on the spine tester is facing the bow.  Russ.

BowEd:
On a spiner with the weight attached and the shaft bowing[concave side].That's the side against the bow if it's the stiffer reading.I mark my spine on the shaft and weight by the nock on the other side so it's visible when nocking an arrow also so I know where to cut my nock on shoot shafts for self nocks.I don't ever use plastic glue on nocks on my arrows.If your making arrows that way that's the way it's done for self nocks.A 1/2" wide wrap should be done below the nock then too for safetys' sake.

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