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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Sleep Junkie on August 02, 2009, 04:04:01 pm

Title: This may be a stupid question, but what does checking mean?
Post by: Sleep Junkie on August 02, 2009, 04:04:01 pm

I was reading through the posts and when people are talking about freshly collected arrow shafts, they say that you should wait to remove the bark until they dry because it prevents checking.  I assume that a check is a crack that forms and then runs down the length of a shaft because it dried to fast.  Am I correct?

Title: Re: This may be a stupid question, but what does checking mean?
Post by: TBod on August 02, 2009, 04:12:26 pm

Check is a crack, correct as far as I know.

Title: Re: This may be a stupid question, but what does checking mean?
Post by: Josh on August 02, 2009, 05:24:28 pm

Drying checks are cracks that form during the drying process.  If wood is cut green and left to dry, the outside of the wood dries faster than the inside wood.  When wood dries it shrinks.  So if the outside of the wood is drier than the inside wood, it shrinks causing checking.  Hope this helps.    -Josh

Title: Re: This may be a stupid question, but what does checking mean?
Post by: ZanderPommo on August 02, 2009, 09:56:23 pm

yup, you're right junkie

Title: Re: This may be a stupid question, but what does checking mean?
Post by: Pat B on August 02, 2009, 11:46:09 pm

Josh nailed it!  ;)

Title: Re: This may be a stupid question, but what does checking mean?
Post by: El Destructo on August 03, 2009, 12:21:46 am

       Dang...and I thought that it was when you got drilled by an Opposing Player in a game of Hockey....how silly of Me....... >:D

                                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFGzsPCFrI

Title: Re: This may be a stupid question, but what does checking mean?
Post by: recurve shooter on August 03, 2009, 12:28:55 am

Quote from: El Destructo on August 03, 2009, 12:21:46 am

       Dang...and I thought that it was when you got drilled by an Opposing Player in a game of Hockey....how silly of Me....... >:D

                                               http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAFGzsPCFrI

good god!!!

and to think i hit that linebacker hard last year. man that was a love tap compared to those guys.

Title: Re: This may be a stupid question, but what does checking mean?
Post by: bebloomster on August 03, 2009, 08:58:08 pm

Oh wow!!!  Don't see a check that hard very often.... thank goodness.