You ABSOLUTELY MUST use a high speed cut off wheel to cut a carbon shaft.
There are inexpensive chop saws like this on ebay all the time that people have adapted to cutting carbon shafts and from what I usnerstand they work well.
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Hey thanks for the link. I think I might run to Cabelas today an pick up some archery stuff, if I do I will hafta order one of those up. I'm sure I'll find alot of uses for it in the shop anyway!
Yep, that's the one I was refering to. Should work pretty well. Just make sure that the blade and shaft are perfectly at a 90 degree angle from each other.
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Ausie-guy, I bought that same cut-off saw and I can't make a nice square cut to same my $%. Is there some technique or jig you made to make it work. I made a nice oak jig and mounted it to it and squared it but it still cuts slightly off kilter. Any info appreciated.
I just sit the saw on the bench top load the arrow into the little vice with just enough pressure to hold the arrow then I check the height of the back of the shaft and cut, after cutting I use the little squaring stone that came with my Axis and Superslims to clean the ends up.
The 4 dozen arrowsI have cut I have had 100% success.
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On your mini cut-off saw, did you make some sort of jig so you cut your arrows the same length each and every time ? If so, what did you make it out of and how did you make it ? Many thanks
I got the idea from this site and made my own version of it.
The things I changed were the mounting of the tool and I made the backstop slide in a rail.
I can make some more, detailedpictures, if you like.
Cutting Carbons
