How to lengthen carbon arrows?

[huntmaster80]

would a piece of a small diameter shaft such as a MFX of Axis fit snug inside of one of your shafts? If so maybe try a 12 expoy and that method, plus you could use a nice heavy brass insert that the MFX comes with if you are also looking to make a heavy arrow also??

[JJB2]

Big country was an okie bball player - bryant reeves. Slow...but big.

[AngelDeVille]

OK here's the next question,

I'm going to use a wooden dowel to add a 3.5" piece.

Given the choice, should I add length to the nock end or the point end?

[reddogge]

I measured the insert of a GT and it measured .246 at its thickest point. A 1616 aluminum shaft measures .220. Sloppy but it may work with enough glue or some thread wrapped around it.

[randy grider]

Am I the only one that noticed he is shooting a left hand bow right handed? Angeldeville, how long have you been shooting this way, and why? I'm not trying to critisize, just wondering what the advantage of it is?

[Looper]

Randy, that's because he's using a thumb ring.

Angel, if you can figure out what size aluminum shaft will fit over your carbons, you can use that to extend the length. Cut an extra piece of carbon to fill in the gap between the end of the original carbon and the aluminum insert. Slather it all with epoxy and you should be good to go.

With the thumb release that is the proper side because the finger is rolling the string the same as if it were a left hand bow.  The part I am wondering is how is the aim with the arrow on the off side and the anchor that far back, the arrow must really be coming in from right field.  Now if the bow can be canted to the left,with head the tilted forward a bit and the anchor moved to the somewhere around the corner of the mouth, instead behind the jaw bone, the eye can get over the arrow.  I looked at the video, dugout  my old Wilson aluminum and leather Straptab that I used way back in my target shooting days with my BW target bows and tried a few shots with my left hand bows shooting right handed. When I stretched it to behind my jaw bone  with the bow vertical, I found a new place to stick arrows into my garage, over there by the corner down spout. Interesting stuff, I am going out and try it with my dual shelf pignut flat limb now.

[AngelDeVille]

Yep thumb release is the key, I'm not using the arrow to aim at all.

I can miss the target just as well with my centercut longbow with meditereanean draw, as I can with my horse bow and thumb draw... maybe even better!

The local shop has a garbage can full of used arrows for $1 each so I'm going to try out a few aluminums and carbons to see what I can piece together, I'd prefer to keep the same OD, and foot internally, but we'll see what the arrows gods provide.

[atatarpm]

Just a thought but if your going to make your arrows longer you might want to put the dowel on the knock end so it will stiffen the arrow.

By golly it worked Ishi style and with the vertical  thing I used my left knuckle. Depending on the weight, it would be possible with fiberglass shafts with hardwood dowels glued in to make arrows that long. I used to stuff Midroflite 12s and 11s with dowels for my extra heavy longbows, I do not think that a foot of a few inches at point would greatly alter the spine as long as they were stiff enough to begin with, when using a dowel on  the inside. You could even put an aluminum shaft inside and call it good and use the aluminum insert to mount your broadhead.

[BOWMARKS]

Think I would add to the knock end then put a wrap around to smooth it up,this would also stiffen spine.

[AngelDeVille]

OK so here's the result, I made a test arrow and I'll see how it works and shoots.

I ended up adding 2 1/4" to the oal.

 

I cut the extra carbon 2 1/4" The wood dowel 2" the 2217 aluminum foot 4" and I installed the insert into the extra carbon piece.

 


I put the 2" piece of 1/4" hardwood dowel butted up to the back of the insert, and into the main shaft, using crazy glue

 

I doubt that splice alone is strong enough to I crazy glued the 4" 2217 aluminum footing.

 

[Zdogk9]

Or; you could cut off a 3-4" chunk of another carbon arrow, glue inserts in each end, get a  8X32 bolt about 2" long cut off the head , use this to join the extension to the shaft, screw your point in like normal, worked for me.

[AngelDeVille]

I was trying to do it on the cheap, the dowel was $.47 and the 2217 shaft was $1, and the crazy glue was $1.57 for 5 tubes!