reducing spine?

[thomas74p]

pat-b the shafts are surewood tapered shafts. real nice stuff. can't let these just sit and be over spined. I shouldn't have bought such a heavy shaft. but live and learn huh!

[Pat B]

 I don't know about Surewood shafts but with other commercial wood shafting the spine is for a 28" arrow with a 125 point up front.
 Again, for each inch under 28" the arrow will fly like a shaft that is 5# heavier per inch.
You may want to contact Surewood to see how cutting the shaft affects the spine.

[thomas74p]

he asks what length you want and he cuts em for you. I'm assuming he knows what all you said and uses a slightly lower spined shaft for mine since he knows he is cutting them a bit short. I guess I'm a noob when it comes to all the finer details of archery and certainly a noob when it comes to tuning arrows, but his shafts sure seem nice to me.

my idea is to find the center of the shaft by balancing the arrow on my finger and scrape and sand 4 inches in front and 4 inches behind that spot. how does that sound?

[Pat B]

I'd do it in the physical center of the shaft and not the balanced center.

[thomas74p]

thanks Pat. I was thinking about that last night while slicing my feathers off. started thinking that idea sounded wrong. I knew you or someone would set me straight. I'm starting to learn to ask first before doing something new.

[Pat B]

Usually with this simple archery it doesn't necessarily pay to over think things. The K.I.S.S. rule rules.   

[thomas74p]

I tried the bare-shaft tuning method this week and sanded the center of the shafts untill each one struck the target perfectly straight on several occasions. some needed to be shot upside down from what they originally were. but in the end I now have all 12 sinking perfectly straight. just got to re-stain the shafts and do a little painting and water sealing then re-fletch and I will take em for a test ride. I'll post up how they do at the range.
for those who have not done this before, I didn't sand very much off. they only dropped about 10-15 grains in weight. so if you try it, don't sand too much and shot each one several times in between sanding so you don't go too much. luckily I didn't screw this one up. of course I haven't shot the final product yet either

[Stixnstones]

Would the sanding the middle method also work on bamboo 'mater stakes?

[Pat B]

I think scraping is the preferred method for cane.

[Pappy]

I scrape them lightly for fine tuning but usually just try and leave them longer.
   Pappy