Cutting Arrows ??

[MJB]

When cutting arrows do you measure from the back/flat part of the nock, or the valley to get your desired length.

Thanks,
Mike  

[Tim Fishell]

I always measure from the valley of the nock.  Where your strings rests when the arrow is on the string.

[varmint]

Originally posted by Tim Fishell:
I always measure from the valley of the nock.  Where your strings rests when the arrow is on the string.

Exactly!From base of nock....

[MJB]

Thanks guys, that's what I thought. Told the wheelie shop owner I wanted (only took three from the dozen) 29 1/2 in from the valley.

He give me a lecture that's incorrect and should be measured from the back end of the nock. But said he would cut them the way I wanted. Got home measured 29"      

[iowa mike]

I guess maybe that for the last 45 years of flinging arrows that I was unaware of any way to measure length other than from the nock groove, even our local "wheelie shop" makes them that way.

[MJB]

Mike,
When I walked in and seen him fiddling with a Toxonics sight almost as long as the stablilzer , I should of left  

[iowa mike]

Whats a stabilizer ?  Only Kidding

[Orion]

Seems to me the shop guy screwed up.  There's only about 1/4 inch difference between the back of the nock and the throat of the nock.  If he used the back, they still should have come out 29 1/4

[madness522]

Seems like he screwed up.  No matter how he measured them they came out wrong. Maybe take them back with a tape measure and you mark where you want them cut.  Or Harbor Freight sells a mini cut off saw you can usually get on sale for about $25.  There was a post a couple weeks ago that had really good pics of how it was made.  Looked easy enough I put building one on my to do list.

[MJB]

I told him valley of the nock. He said there isn't a device on the saw (pin) where the arrow nock would sit to be measured. Had to measure then with a tape and still cut them wrong. I'll check out Harbor Freight.
THANKS    

[2Knives]

Dang it....cut it twice and its still too short!!    

My cutoff saw measures it just fine. When you put the nock in the "groove" it measures from the front side of that plate...I still pull out the tape measure just to be sure.
I'd take them back and get what I wanted if I were you.

[Shawn Leonard]

Yup, valley of the nock is the correct way, but as things change so do people who are young and do not know the right way. I know several shops that do it that way and it is flat out wrong. Shawn