Rob, I start with a shoot as fat at the point end as I want the blunt to be, some 1" or more and some less, then reduce the shaft from the nock end to the blunt. For length they are a few inches longer, 30" to 33" to account
for the taper at the blunt end.
Yeah Bill, I shoot mine at small game but the clean one in the picture was a gift to my brother a couple years ago
and he won't shoot it, says its too pretty to mess up or break.