Arrow selection and "refinishing"

[GentlemanArcher]

Not sure if this is the right group, but here it goes. And let me start with, I know this is just about looks....not my looks, but the look of my arrows  

So seem to have collected a bunch of bows and shooting friends that use bows with below 30 pounds draw (including myself more often than not).  

From all the charts and calcs I've seen, you are wanting spine of .8 and up.  I know that's nice and vague, but you get the idea.

We all love the look of wood arrows, but it seems very challenging to find wood spined that low.  I do have a set of GT trad 1535s with 100grn brass inserts.  These fly pretty nice at about 25 pounds of draw.  The softest spine I've seen for the "trad"  is .6 or .623.

So...finally to my question.  Anyone ever "refinish" Easton XX75 1816s?  The platinum's have a fine finish, but I know my wife would dig an arrow that looked more like wood.


Thx
GA

[Pat B]

You can decrease the effective spine of the wood shafts by leaving them long. Their rated spine is for a 28" finished arrow with a 125gr point. For each inch over 28" you can subtract 5# of spine weight.  So a 40# spined arrow left 30" long would fly like a 30# spined arrow. Adding a heavier point will also reduce the effective spine weight.

[Roy from Pa]

Pat nailed it..

[GentlemanArcher]

Yep...that's a great idea.  the reason I was thinking Al or even better, carbons was to keep the arrow weight as low as possible.  10gpp at 20#s is a 200 grain arrow. A 500grn arrow would be 25gpp and I'm guessing that would be sloooowwww.

but sacrifices must be made for beauty    

GA

PS...and I'll have her start lifting weights!!!

[JimB]

This won't give you the wood look,but...
 http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=114091;p=1

[Green]

Phillip - if you're interested in wood shafts spined for that poundage I have 5/16th's Douglas Fir spined from 20-40#.  If interested please shoot me a PM with your bow/draw specs and I'll look at my inventory and see what we can put together for you.