| From: Ben Ahrens
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| Date: 11-Jul-22 |
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I've just received my first dozen wood shafts (Surewood hunters) and need to figure out what length and point weight they like. Is it ok to cut the tapers and hot glue a nock and point temporarily just to get everything figured out or is there some reason I'd need to finish the test arrow(s) first?
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| From: Live2Hunt
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| Date: 11-Jul-22 |
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It's ok to do, but if your spine is off bare shafting, be ready for broken shafts. It does not take much to snap them. If you know you are close it may be a better idea on your checkbook to finnish and fletch then tune for good arrow flight and impact testing between field point and broadhead.
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| From: fdp
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| Date: 11-Jul-22 |
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Yep.......won't hurt a thing.
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| From: Boker
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| Date: 11-Jul-22 |
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I bareshaft them unfinished, I will say bareshaft testing wood hasn’t worked as well as carbons for me.
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| From: JusPassin
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| Date: 11-Jul-22 |
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Strange, I was bare shaft tuning wood arrows before I ever saw a carbon. Just start close. Yes, they will break if you are too far back and out of tune.
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| From: aromakr
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| Date: 11-Jul-22 |
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BUT YOU DO NOT USE HOT GLUE TO PUT ON THE NOCKS, USE THE SAME GLUE YOU WILL USE TO FLETCH THEM.
bOB
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| From: M60gunner
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| Date: 11-Jul-22 |
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If you followed the 5# guidelines for selecting the shafts or had Shurewood pick them with your bows specs you should be OK. At least you may not break any during testing. I have to let the shafts sit for a week or so because of our almost no humidity climate. Usually end up straightening some. Obviously unstraight shafts will screw up the bare shaft testing.
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| From: grizz
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| Date: 11-Jul-22 |
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Got to agree with aromakr , never use hot melt for nocks.
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| From: Ben Ahrens
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| Date: 12-Jul-22 |
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With the hot melt on the nocks my thought was that hopefully I could get a few test shots out of it and then be able to remove the nock and apply finish, but if I need to glue it on with NPV I can do that.
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| From: aromakr
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| Date: 12-Jul-22 |
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Ben: In my opinion, your nock is one of the most important parts of making arrows, unless it is on properly you can't be sure if its causing a problem with arrow performance. A crooked nock can start the arrow's flight in the wrong direction. If they need to be removed, they are easily cut off.
And HOT melt tells you that heat is needed for application and heat and plastic do not go together.
Bob
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| From: Ben Ahrens
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| Date: 12-Jul-22 |
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Bob, there's no reason I shouldn't have arrived at that same conclusion myself thinking it through, but since I didn't I'm glad you said something.
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| From: jk
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| Date: 12-Jul-22 |
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...are you concerned about effect of finish on spine? I doubt that'd be relevent. How thick finish do you have in mind?
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| From: Ben Ahrens
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| Date: 13-Jul-22 |
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jk, I was not concerned with that at all. My only reason for asking was to save the time spent finishing the arrow until after I'd got it cut to its final length (if I actually decide to cut it down at all). Also if I end up breaking one in the process of figuring things out I didn't waste the time it takes to finish it.
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