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DC:
--- Quote from: Ricardovanleeuwen on April 04, 2020, 07:07:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: DC on April 04, 2020, 05:36:21 pm ---This is a vague answer but they stiffen up quite a bit. I've only used a few different shoots but they all seemed to stiffen differently so I can't give a definitive answer. Cut them at about 3/8"(1cm) and cut them long then you can move up or down the shoot to find the spine you want. Cobble up a spine tester. I saw one that was two nails and a two lb bunch of bananas.
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with spine tester do you mean the real thing with the scale like pointer and the diagram or Just 2 nails and a weight and a ruler? I have the second one, 2 nails in work bench, a piece of brick Duc,close to 2lb (weighted on human scale, dont got kitchen scale) taped on an hook with a pointer pointing sideways to a piece of tape measure.
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That sounds like it should work as long as you get repeatable results.
I would trim your fletch a little closer. Mine are about 12 mm high.
Ricardovanleeuwen:
--- Quote from: aznboi3644 on April 05, 2020, 07:34:19 am ---I’m a simple arrow fletcher and 9/10 times make mine two fletch Native American style with my own little twist on them. As for the noise. If your feathers protrude out from the shaft a lot they will wade in the air.
Here’s my style of hand fletching goose feathers. I don’t mind the small gap between the feather and the shaft. After trimming them down they fly straight and quiet.
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when you do the 2 fletch, you put the feathers with the curve away from the Shaft or toward?
And @ DC ik try trimmimg Them down, as for the spine tester, ik scraping heaps of Wood away with so little difference on the ruler, is there An easy way to
Make it so that It is easyer to see?
aznboi3644:
What do you mean the curve? I lay the feather so the underside of the feather is against the shaft. If you noticed I do a 90 degree twist to my fletchings.
DC:
--- Quote from: Ricardovanleeuwen on April 07, 2020, 02:53:41 pm ---
, as for the spine tester, ik scraping heaps of Wood away with so little difference on the ruler, is there An easy way to
Make it so that It is easyer to see?
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Not really, you need a pretty accurate way of measuring. Here's a tutorial. You said you had a needle indicator on yours. This tutorial will show you how to calibrate it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl3oY5dfiH4
Take a look at it and see if this helps. If not we'll dig deeper :D
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Ricardovanleeuwen:
I measure like on the foto, with needle i mean shapened point to say how much milimeter. A good shooting fletched Arrow bends like 12 mm (0 point is at 4.2 cm) when i shoot a bare Shaft with same flex It hits the left edge of the target ( shot multiple Times).
Also the other fletched arrows wich i more accuratly gave the same spine, trimmed the feathers a bit, so hitted the middle of the target twice in a row, so It seems like 12 mm flex is good with feathers and without the spine seems to weak
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