Originally posted by longstiks:
Rob,
Were you able to use the same spine arrow with the added 59gr. or did you have to up the spine wt.?
Denny
29" arrow, holding 55# @ 29", no spine issue at all for me, with woodies, i typically use 11/32" 60/65# spine, and quite often i'll taper the last 9" down to 5/16" (which further reduces spine). on at least a few parallel 11/32" shafts i added "tail" weight at the nock end, about 35 grains, and as expected it stiffened up the arrow spine. however, i typically can shoot a very wide range of arrow spines from the same bow.
with this jig, you can really mess with ...
* increasing the front end "footed" shaft strength
* add foc
* increase the spine stiffness ("tailing" the shaft)
* and of course all of this increases the arrow's total weight
next up, i wanna try two footing tests - a 1/8" hardwood dowel, and a 1/8" rod of carbon fiber - to strengthen the front end without adding any negligible arrow weight.
it's just way too easy to use this jig and it seems i'm on a mission to drill out all of my dozens and dozens of woodies that have been asleep and neglected for years. :D