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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: ken bee on June 08, 2008, 11:09:24 am

Title: spine tester calibration
Post by: ken bee on June 08, 2008, 11:09:24 am
i built the homemade spine tester problem is my computer skills arent so hot i couldnt get the graphic exact so i settled for about .25 smaller i shoot 2117 pretty fair at 28"can you tell me what they spine i can probably figure it out from there      thanks  ken
Title: Re: spine tester calibration
Post by: scattershot on June 08, 2008, 05:30:37 pm
The 2117 spines 81#. Good luck!
Title: Re: spine tester calibration
Post by: Kegan on June 09, 2008, 05:52:08 pm
Spining made easy-

Stand back as far as you can from the target (50-100 yards) and shoot the arrows at it. Arrows landing to the left (if you're right handed) are too stiff, to the right too light, and those that hit or land in front/around the target are suited. Farther out the more precise.

I made a spine tester, and tried desperately to gt it to work for me. It didn't. This does, and it's more fun :).
Title: Re: spine tester calibration
Post by: Otoe Bow on June 09, 2008, 06:08:35 pm
Kegan, that's probably one of the neatest things I've heard today.  It makes perfect sense.  Thanks for sharing that. 

Mike
Title: Re: spine tester calibration
Post by: Phillip K on June 13, 2008, 02:55:50 pm
Good Idea Kegan, Your Talented With Logic And Bowyering.PK
Title: Re: spine tester calibration
Post by: D. Tiller on June 13, 2008, 04:57:46 pm
Yeah! Thats if you have the time and money to finnish all those arrows. I think I will make a spine tester. I have budget and time limits these days!  :'(
Title: Re: spine tester calibration
Post by: Kegan on June 13, 2008, 08:26:27 pm
Good Idea Kegan, Your Talented With Logic And Bowyering.PK

Thank you so much! Actually, I'm just talented in my relentless desire to learn more from everywhere and everyone I can. I just catalogue all I can :D! I'm a primitive archery sponge >:D!

D. Tiller- That's what I thought. But after you remove all those that have too poor grain and are much too limber, you wind up only culling a few- if that. And those that are spined wrong can be shot from a lighter/heavier bow later if the shoot right/left repsectively. It also lets you get the perfect-despite-what-it-should-be spine. I've got about 20# difference in spine and 50 grain difference. I can still clip dandelion stems or managed a 5" group with 4 arrows at 40 yards.