Wood arrow newbie?

[magnus]

Yeah that's not a big deal.

[Biathlonman]

Figured, just wanted to make sure.

[gringol]

Originally posted by Bjorn:
Spruce and POC will work well in a hand held taper tool. For Doug Fir I use a sander, it tends to splinter with a hand taper tool.

True, fir does tend to tear with a hand taper tool, but I use one anyway and haven't had any problems.  Once you get the hot-melt glue in there and the point on everything works just fine.

[snag]

Originally posted by Biathlonman:
Ok just came up with another question.  After point tapering 160gr. Point fit fine but I had to trim the taper for a 125gr. Point.  Is that normal?

There are a few manufacturers of field pts in the USA. One makes a shallow taper that is about 3/4" deep. The other one has a full taper of about 1 1/8" deep.  I prefer the longer taper. Kustom King sells these. I just dislike having to take the time to cut off the extra in order to fit them to the shallow taper. Or adjust my taper machine to the shallow taper and then having to reset it.