I'm fed up with all this technical stuff and expensive tools and products that aren't what they say they are. I just bought a load of 11/32 field points and the taper is different to the taper tool taper, (yes I did check which end!) also they are too small for the 11/32 shafts but too big for the 5/16! So what is wrong, the point or the shaft?
I'm just going to take a breath, buy some dowel, dry the boo and then I am gonna MAKE them work. I'm not going to spine test any more, I will bare tune each shaft to whatever length they require down to my draw length, then match them by length afterwards into sets and fletch and paint or whatever. The only ones rejected then will be ones way too light that won't take the strain and they can be tuned for the longbow.
No more POC, I just worked out I spent more than $400 on making arrows in my first eighteen months and I got 10 left. That's ridiculous. I don't think my ancestors purchased shafts from 3000 km away, used spine gauges or fletching jigs, and I got all my fingers, a reasonably well working brain and nature around me so that will have to do!