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Author Topic: carbon to wood spine  (Read 229 times)

Offline last arrow

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carbon to wood spine
« on: January 15, 2015, 11:19:00 PM »
I would like to get some wood arrows for one of my bows.  If I use stu's calculator to determine the dynamic spine of the carbon set up I use now that are tuned to the bow and then develop a wood arrow setup with the same dynamic spine am I good to go?
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Re: carbon to wood spine
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2015, 11:32:00 PM »
I will start off by saying if your carbon arrows are tuned properly the same dynamic spine wood arrows will work perfect (well they do for me).

When I tune my wood arrows I will weigh a broadhead and a field point to make certain they weigh the same. I will tune with the Adcock method using the arrow with the broadhead to tell me what, if any adjustments need to be made.

I do make different strings for carbon and wood arrows. Seems the nocks for wood arrows are bigger than the carbon nocks that I use, which requires larger serving for the woodies.

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Re: carbon to wood spine
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2015, 08:18:00 PM »
If I get tapered shafts does that effect the prediction from the calculator?  I assume it is set up for parallel shafts.

I do make different strings to fine tune, increasing and decreasing the number of strands and type of serving to get nock fit and fine adjust for tuning
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Re: carbon to wood spine
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2015, 08:54:00 PM »
You'll be close, but will need to shoot them to find out.  Though dynamic spine may be the same, wood is generally physically heavier throughout the shaft. You may need more static/dynamic spine with wood to get the same arrow flight vis-a-vis carbon.

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