arrows a touch stiff, do I want a higher brace height?

[tukudu]

Another way to look at it is that you are preloading the limbs by increasing the brace height.

[Old York]

I'm not surprised to see some archers have an "opposite" result...I had one finicky recurve that was "opposite", don't know why but it was.

Now I just set BH to the quietest spot and adjust otherwise by changing spine or degree of centre-shot.

When reading through Easton's tuning guide and their BH tuning discussion, I do wonder at what distances they're refering to. I sense they're refering to say 90 meters and target recurve bows(?)

[Bjorn]

Easton has not made a wood arrow in 70 years, it is no wonder the charts don't mean a lot for woodies.
The geometry thing that Shooty brings up is true, but only for that instant at the very end of the string time.
For my shooting dropping to a low brace is at most 1/4 inch, and that is enough to make a slightly 'stiff' arrow 'right on'. For me, it will amount to about 4" of correction in 25 yards.
So I am firmly in the lower brace weakens arrow camp. I wish Rod would chime in here!

[Bowmania]

Here's how I look at it (and remember).  If you had an arrow nocked and look at it with the string in the center of the limbs, you'd see the arrow off to the left (righty) somewhere.  If the string wasn't there and you moved the arrow  towards the bow in the same plane the tip would move further to the left.  Move it back or towards you in the same plane the tip would move to the right.

This says the same thing as BenBow in a much more complicated manner.

Bowmania

[PastorSteveHill]

So...  For a really confused guy..

Does raising mean going from a 6' Brace Height to an 8' Brace Height

Or Does Raising mean going from an 8' Brace to a 6'??  

In other words, is raising a brace mean...  Going up the ladder as in   7,6,5,4,3,2,1

or does rasing it mean going in chronological order from least to greatest as in  1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc...

Now I've confused myself... hahah..

[frank bullitt]

Here's a thought, try both, lowering, and raising and see what works! No harm either way!

What size fletch are you shooing?

[SHOOTO8S]

Both lowering brace height and raising brace height can correct right and left arrow impact.....now let me try to explain how.

With a finger release, even the best release will have a left to right oscillation( right hand shooter)and whether the arrow is pointed to the right or left at the moment the nock releases from the string, determines whether the brace needs to raised or lowered to change impact on the target....really doesn't change the spine of the arrow, only which way it pointed.

Both the increased draw weight from raising brace..and the increased power stroke from lowering brace effect dynamic arrow spine...but right and left impact is controlled by both dynamic spine and at which point the arrow nock release during the S-path the string travels.