Reducing Cedar Arrow Spine Weight?

[Hawken1911]

Hello,

I read on a vendor site once that you can reduce the spine weight of cedar arrows by sanding around the center of the shafts, which sounded a little fishy to me.  Well, I have some medieval replica arrows that were purposely spined too heavy because I was using HEAVY hand-forged broadheads at the time.  But I wasn't happy with the performance of those broadheads so I'm going with some heavy commercial 2-blade broadheads now, but they are half the weight of the hand-forged ones, and now my arrows are overspined.  Will the sanding trick work?  Are there any other options; perhaps a creative way of adding more weight up front?  Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Hawken

[SCATTERSHOT]

Sanding the middle of the shaft will work, up to a point. How much do you need to take off? Another alternative would be to add lead to the new points to compensate, or use the Reparrow footings to make the shafts longer. Might just be cheaper and less trouble to get the proper spined shafts to begin with?

What are you shooting? What weight and style of bow?

BTW, say hello to HuntsmanLance for me.

[Bjorn]

You can change the spine pretty quickly by sanding if you cant wait to get the proper spined arrow shafting.

[Hawken1911]

Thanks guys.

My arrows are medieval replicas; self-nocked, goose feathers, silk wrapped fletchings, etc.  In other words, very expensive.  So I'm going to try to make the ones I have work.

I'm shooting a 60# English longbow and my arrows were spined at 70-75.  The arrows flew like darts with the hand-forged broadheads, that were around 400 grains.  The Stos blades I replaced them with are 160 grains.

I'll tell Lance you said hello Eugene.

[owlbait]

What about the Woody Weights?

[SlowBowinMO]

The new Woody Weights might be of help to you as well, they'll let you get a bunch more weight up front if you need it.  I believe they come as heavy as 200 grains.

[Hawken1911]

I've never heard of Woody Weights.  I'm going to go do a Google search on them now.  Thanks.

[Hawken1911]

I just ordered the 200 grain Woody Weights, which should give me 360 grains up front, which is perfect.  Thanks so much guys!