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recurve shooter:
is there any fairly simple way to reduce the diameter and/or weight of a shaft besidse sanding?

Pat B:
Thumb plane!  Tru-Value Hardware, $8 or so.     Pat

recurve shooter:
thanx.

Hillbilly:
Like Pat said. I take almost all of my shoot shafts down to a constant diameter with a little Stanley trim plane. Only takes a few minutes once you get the hang of it. I actually prefer to cut bigger shoots and plane them down to the diameter I want, they seem to warp less that way. Some of these shoots were big around as my thumb when I started, now they're all 11/32".

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recurve shooter:
cool. how do you do it? cut a groove in a board to hold it and shace it to a squar, then 6 sided, then eight, then sand to a circle?

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