I'm gratified to hear they've actually made some improvements in spine consistency, ewolf! Question: Did you just check once on each arrow, or did you spin each arrow and check them all at several points around the shaft? Last time I fiddled with them, I could get spine variances up to .015 or more on the same shaft. Going from the stiffest point on one shaft to the limpest point on another, it wasn't suprizing to get a variance of .040 or more within a dozen new shafts. Much, much worse after they'd been used on the range for a month or two.

There is certainly a desperate need for continued improvement, but it will only come if archers demand it. Even then, I doubt we'll be amazed. They'll still be selling their factory seconds - the ones that are just good enough to not go in the scrap bin - as cheap 'hunter' grade shafts and there'll still be tons of people who can't shoot good enough to see them for the junk they are. Then it'll still be a step higher up the price scale for the ones that are almost right, and they'll still be charging astronomical prices for the shafts that actually do come off the mandrel the way they intended.