Cutting down Carbon arrows queston
07-14-2006, 06:18 AM
#12
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: East Liverpool, OH,
Posts: 160
RE: Cutting down Carbon arrows queston
Thats the 1 I bought $21.95 buy now price and waiting for it to get her to start playing with some of my old carbons before I start cutting up my new dozen.
Trytan
Trytan
07-14-2006, 11:07 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Cenral Illinois
Posts: 3,180
RE: Cutting down Carbon arrows queston
I've always seen them cut by rotating because then you make sure that the cut is straight and you can get all of the burrs off at the end of the cut. I'm sure once you buy a saw your friends will want to use it, so just charge them a little bit and it will get paid for in no time. If you are close to the shop, $1 an arrow isn't bad I don't think. I don't know how many arrows a year you go through, but I know for me, it wouldn't get much beyond like $12 a year.
07-16-2006, 09:35 AM
#15
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Fulton N.Y. USA
Posts: 171
RE: Cutting down Carbon arrows queston
ORIGINAL: trevwill
In your shop you have a bench grinder right ? Well use that!!
In your shop you have a bench grinder right ? Well use that!!
let alone carbon arrows for a bench grinder !"
I'll check my supply books whenI open the fab shop Monday...
07-16-2006, 11:07 AM
#16
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: (39.02N -95.68W)
Posts: 533
RE: Cutting down Carbon arrows queston
Better make sure of your rpm's before you use a bench grinder. You should have 5,000 for aluminums and 8,000 for carbons. Most bench grinders are nowhere near that speed so it is not so easy to burn the tinseling out of mower blades and such; topping out around 3,500 or so. Yeah, you can probably get buy with it for aluminums, but it will probably ruin the fibers on carbons. Most likely even to the point you can't see it (inside the shaft) and you have a carbon arrow split on release on you. Not a very safe idea... At least the HF saw gets up to around 7,800 rpm.
