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Author Topic: Barrel tapering some woods...  (Read 995 times)

Offline Al Kidner

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Barrel tapering some woods...
« on: June 17, 2019, 02:18:42 AM »
Gday guys,

Well I was lucky enough to get a really good deal on 4 dozen high spined POC shafts a while back and I am wanting to barrel taper them somehow.

I already have a bench sander and wheel combo and I was looking at using that along with the Tim’s Taper Tool that way I can also do the nock and point tapers. Has anyone used one of these before? I have hand tapered shafts before but would rather the sanding option as it’s quicker.

When I mean barrel taper, and as these shafts are already 23/64, I’m aiming to have them at 5/16 at the nock end and 11/32 and the point end.

Cheers and chat soon from Australia,

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Re: Barrel tapering some woods...
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2019, 09:16:11 AM »
I wonder how much weight/grains you can take off with a barrel taper.

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Re: Barrel tapering some woods...
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2019, 09:31:16 AM »
I think one of the original reasons for barrel tapering was to reduce the physical weight without reducing the spine weight. That's how flight shooters and target shooters achieved that goal.
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Re: Barrel tapering some woods...
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2019, 10:00:22 AM »
Al I have a Tim's Taper Tool and love it. I have been using it for more than 10 years. I just do nock and point tapers and the ten inch rear taper on 11/32" shafts. I buy a hundred shafts at a time and put the nock taper and rear ten inch taper on them. I then spine, weigh, and sort them. I have found the rear 10" taper will change the spine zero to two pounds. As for weight change I don't know as I have never weighed them before tapering.
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