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Offline hillbilly61

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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2010, 12:01:59 am »
  In the process of trying to make 2. Got the handle glued on one today and will put the backing on  sometime tomarrow :) Then glue up the 2nd handle. If the first fails then I have the second to not make that same mistake on ;D
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2010, 01:52:23 am »
Canoe, Yes, the 3/8 will be the smaller end. 3/8 seems to be as about the smallest diameter for self nocking.  I really suck at making self nocks.  Lately, I've be plugging the cane with a dowel, tapering the ends and using commercial nocks.  Most of the time the cane and shoots are wider where they grow closest to the ground and get narrower up the shoot.  This creates a natural tapered shaft.
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #17 on: February 14, 2010, 02:11:30 am »
I have never made a Cane or Boo Arrow that was 3/8" at the Nocking End...that was under 80 Pound Spined....all of my Arrows are Spined for 50-60 pound Bows...and are betweem 1/4" and 5/16" at the NocKing End...and 3/8" to 7/16" at the Point End...I have always found that when  3/8" at the Nock End...they are way overspined for my 60 pound Selfbows.....JMO
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #18 on: February 14, 2010, 02:49:00 am »
El, I will differe to your experience and knowledge :)  I'm still learning to match spine to bow.  Some of mine arrows do seem a bit over spined while other seem pretty good.

I've seen the question anwered before on here, but couldn't find it last week when I did a search:
     If the nock end leans to the left of impact is the arrow over spined or under spined
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2010, 02:54:47 am »
Don't forget bamboo has a stiffer side.   That's the side u wanna spine for
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #20 on: February 14, 2010, 03:00:27 am »
No...if the Point Hits left and the Nock leans right...for a Righty...not a Lefty now....it's overspined... and yes...remember that if yo push down straight on a shaft of Boo or Cane...the Arrow will bend towards to weaker Side...

The Picture....

1) Spined Correctly / Nocked Correctly

2) Nocking Point Too High

3) Nocking Point too Low

4) Underspined

5) Overspined

6) Underspined / Nocking Point High


Hope that this helps you........

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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #21 on: February 14, 2010, 03:06:32 am »
It helps me, thanks Mike.
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #22 on: February 14, 2010, 03:21:07 am »
Thanks El.  That's what I was looking for.  :)
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #23 on: February 14, 2010, 10:28:30 am »
Shopping the home and tool "salvage store" yesterday and found a corner with a bunch of plastic bags containing 6 bamboo or maybe tonkin poles that are 60 inches  long...the package says they are "plant stakes". I bought 2 packages for 1.99 each. Brought them home and cut them at 31 inches and as close to the same size as possible. I've got 12 decent looking shafts for perhaps a 50-60 pound bow. Now to clean, sand and straighten them....I like it!

Looking on the web to see if I got a deal or not and found this site..http://www.amleo.com/index/item.cgi?Words=n601&cmd=view

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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #24 on: February 14, 2010, 10:34:30 am »
I don't want my arrows 3/8" at the point end, much less the nock end, most cane or boo I've used that would make them stiff as a fence post. Most of my cane arrows wind up about 23/32" or 11/32" at the point, and around 5/16" at the nock end. And that's leaving them a few inches longer than my draw length.
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #25 on: February 14, 2010, 11:00:03 am »
El destructo, are you using the shaft in the tapered way?  Big end pointy end small end nock end?  I'm just making sure ur post kinda jumbled me up
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #26 on: February 14, 2010, 11:37:30 am »
Howdy Group,

El D., I'll be shopping for those smaller boo shafts; (1/4" - 5/16" at the small ends).  Also, thanks for the paper tuning tutorial. 
It's almost lawn and garden season at the HD, where they'll be putting out all those gardening supplies - including fresh bunches of garden stakes.  I'll be there.

Thanks for your help guys,
Canoe
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #27 on: February 14, 2010, 01:25:49 pm »
I tried to straighten a few this morning. I used a propane torch. Had trouble with one out of 4. Three turned out to be pretty straight. My question is the torch scorched it a bit, is this normal? Also what about the nodes. Do you sand them flush?
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #28 on: February 14, 2010, 01:36:21 pm »
Quote from: aero86 on February 14, 2010, 11:00:03 am
El destructo, are you using the shaft in the tapered way?  Big end pointy end small end nock end?  I'm just making sure ur post kinda jumbled me up

Thats exactly right...read above...Steve (Hillbilly) hit it right on the Nose too.....
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Re: Shafts at Home Depot
« Reply #29 on: February 14, 2010, 02:32:56 pm »
El D, just to clarify, here...

TBB III pg 230 shows underspined arrows shooting off to the left and overspined to the right.  Is that a goof-up?

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