Spine tester choices. which?

[Alex.B]

I'm shopping for my 1st spine tester. the standard ACE Spin spine tester is $200, and the wall-mounted Spine master only $90. What are the pluses and minuses of each one?

[Hot Hap]

I have the spine master on the wall. I like it. It's always there and ready to go to work. I believe that it is very accurate. It's also out of the way when not in use. Hap

[Alex.B]

Thanks Hap

[Cupcake]

Alex,

Check out the sponsor classifieds for my Spine-O-Meter.  The scales read out in wood, aluminum and carbon.  There are three measurement ranges so you can spine 20-200 pounds.

Kevin

[Bjorn]

Alex, I am a regular user of the spine-o-meter Cupcake makes, I bought it almost one year ago. It is very functional, attractive and accurate-a joy to use.

[Paul Mattson]

Cupcake has a great spine-tester.  Very simple to use and accurate.

[Aeronut]

Spine-O-Meter from Cupcake.

Dennis

[dino]

I do like cupcakes tester but I have a Rotthar Professional already that I do most of my spine testing on.  I do keep an ace wall mount in the shop for quick double checking of shafts.  It is nice because if can be kept at eye level and it is out of the way on the wall. dino

[wtpops]

I want to say that i have never used a spine tester, yet, but looking and resurching them it looks like all will work its just a mater of what you need.

With that said if i were to buy one it would be the Spine-o-Meter because of the all in one scale that will read all arrow materals that most of us guys use without switching scale faces.

[UKarcher]

I have the Ace wall mount and it does everything I need. It is out of the way but always ready. It's easy to zero and I also have the half weight for light spined arrows.
Graham

[upnorth]

Salut Alex,

Look at that one:  spinetester.
it's a very accurate and compact one.  

They also build a multi tool system:
  multi-tool


   Prices    

[zirnsak]

3 Rivers sells the Ace Spine Tester for only $94. Not only does it work great, it is affordable. Easy to use and hangs on the wall nicely. I often wondered how good was it, until I was at our areas nicest Traditional archery store and it is hanging on there wall being used every single day. I thought that said enough.

[upnorth]

TTT for Alex...

[tecum-tha]

I would not use the german tester, because it takes forever to dial in to zero. The pointer dial are much easier to use and faster. I just build one by myself and have right now $20 in it.
If you havea digital caliber it is easy to make your own deflection dial, which is important, because you would have to copy all the exact standards from the other brands to use their dial accurately. I use a mix out of the Adams spine tester system and this one for the supports:  http://nativeskills.madduckoutdoors.com/simple_spine_meter.htm  .
Today, I will develop the indicator dial and see how it works.

[MJW]

Ace wall mount here too.

[Alex.B]

thanks guys
Alex