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Ocean Spray flight arrows?
DC:
I drill it out and glue in 1-2" of bamboo skewer. I do the same with bamboo shafts.
Sagebrush:
I shall try loading it. Good thought. Thanks!
DC:
I found a piece of OS under my tablesaw that was 29" long and pretty straight so I cut a 3/8x3/8" blank. Planed it in the shooting board and chucked it up in my drill. Ran it back and forth on the belt sander until it spined 50# approx. It ended up at 5/16" dia and weighs 625 grains. It is still parallel so I could lose some weight by barrelling it and maybe a couple more grains by dropping the spline a few pounds. That's 21 grains per inch. Still seems pretty heavy to me. On the plus side I was surprised how well it planed. It worked quite easily.
DC:
I was putting a piece of bamboo in the truck to dry so I thought I might as well put the OS arrow in there as well. I checked today after 24 or so hours. The weight had dropped from 625 to 591 grains and the spine went from 50# up to 58#. I'm sure that piece of OS was under the saw for a couple of years. It was a half round about 3/4"x 1 1/2". This is making me wonder if OS needs artificial heat to truly dry. I put it back in the truck :)
Sagebrush:
DC Ocean Spray tends to drive me crazy. Until I get my bows roughed out they don't stop losing weight. even then it can take over a year To completely dry, and that is living east of the mountains where our humidity is ridiculously low.
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