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some new arrows to look at
penderbender:
Beautiful arrows Jeff. A lot of time went into those and it shows. Cheers- Brendan
DC:
Beautiful job Jeff. But I have a question. You said the shaft is 447 and finished weight is 617. That's a diff of 170, but you say the tips are 125. Do the fletching and paint weigh 45 grains? I've never checked my own but that seems like a lot. Maybe not though ??? ???
jeffp51:
DC, that seemed strange to me too. It has two coats of poly and three coats of linseed oil. The quills on the feathers were a little thick, and curved quite a bit, so I was not able to thin them down as much as I would have liked.
DC:
I'm doing some in a day or so. I'll weigh them before and after. I thought fletching had negligible weight, maybe I'm wrong.
PS I went and weighed 3 rough fletches =12 grains. So less when trimmed.
jeffp51:
I did the same thing when you pointed it out this morning. 11 grains. 32+ grains for paint and sinew wraps seems like a lot. I don't know where the weight is coming from, but I made multiple measurements on each and recorded the weight in my notebook when I was sanding the shafts, so I am certain about the raw shaft weights (this weight was after the tapering of the tip for the points).
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