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DC:
I'm going to stick with 26 for a bit. I've taken 222 grains off the width of the tips. Now I'm going to start on the depth. I've hot glued a bamboo skewer on to the back as an indicator. It will tell be how much the tip is bending. I'm going to try for 1/8" or something and see how that goes.
sleek:
DC, you said a puff of dust came off that splinter when it popped? I never heard of that, but i think the backing may be the problem not the design. Perhaps a rawhide is in order to keep would be splinters down. Also, as the splinter was on the very edge, did you have your corners rounded well beforehand?
sleek:
--- Quote from: DC on March 22, 2019, 06:15:24 pm ---I'm going to stick with 26 for a bit. I've taken 222 grains off the width of the tips. Now I'm going to start on the depth. I've hot glued a bamboo skewer on to the back as an indicator. It will tell be how much the tip is bending. I'm going to try for 1/8" or something and see how that goes.
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That is bloody brilliant. 222 grains is damn near an arrows worth of weight removed. That will help lots!
DC:
--- Quote from: sleek on March 22, 2019, 06:17:07 pm ---DC, you said a puff of dust came off that splinter when it popped? I never heard of that, but i think the backing may be the problem not the design. Perhaps a rawhide is in order to keep would be splinters down. Also, as the splinter was on the very edge, did you have your corners rounded well beforehand?
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It popped quite loud. I think it just shook off some sanding dust. I've had bigger splinters make less noise. I'm afraid the weight of the rawhide would counter all I'm doing unless I had goat or something. But I don't have any rawhide. Yes the corners were nicely rounded. The splinter was about 1/4" from the edge. I just tried my bend tester and the ends bend 1/4" just bracing the bow. Then they bend more. I'm going to move the glued part out toward the tips.
sleek:
--- Quote from: DC on March 22, 2019, 07:10:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: sleek on March 22, 2019, 06:17:07 pm ---DC, you said a puff of dust came off that splinter when it popped? I never heard of that, but i think the backing may be the problem not the design. Perhaps a rawhide is in order to keep would be splinters down. Also, as the splinter was on the very edge, did you have your corners rounded well beforehand?
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It popped quite loud. I think it just shook off some sanding dust. I've had bigger splinters make less noise. I'm afraid the weight of the rawhide would counter all I'm doing unless I had goat or something. But I don't have any rawhide. Yes the corners were nicely rounded. The splinter was about 1/4" from the edge. I just tried my bend tester and the ends bend 1/4" just bracing the bow. Then they bend more. I'm going to move the glued part out toward the tips.
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Do a quick check on the scale to see if you lost any draw weight from tip reduction. They may have been bending the enture time... or not.
Also, check tiller after that splinter, it may have changed.
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