Buonasera, dove si comprano gli accessori, di plastica x tagliare le piume?

Thanks for sharing this great information.

Thanks for the video. How far should the back of the feather be from the nock? What is the best distance and how important is it for accuracy?

I did a test at 35 yds shooting 5" parabolic and shield cut feathers with a 50 lb recurve. I was unable to detect any sound difference however the shield cut had more drag so impact was lower. At 25 yds there was no noticeable difference. I stopped using helical because it's too noisy and harder to use with 5" feathers however even my straight jig has a tad bit of twist to it so the arrows do spin. Thanks for making this video.

There is no aspirated H in the pronunciation of the letter H

what a joke

This is brilliant! Thank you!

I like the AAE Tradvanes because they're pretty flexible and the lower profile has more clearance on a rest to the shelf. Perhaps my 600 spine shafts are a bit weak with a 40 lb recurve bow, but 40g tips has helped with that. More arrow speed, and less parachute effect. Accuracy at 20 and 30 yards vastly improved over high profile feathers .

Bonus Tip: Get used Pallet Wrap, which most places will just throw away. Those large big box stores like Home Depot (Bunnings in Oz), particularly where they might sell large bags of potting mix off a pallet. Those pallets have to be wrapped well due to unstable bags (unlike boxes that might have a light wrap), so if you enquire what day they get most of their deliveries they can put some aside for you. The benefit here is that it is the one type of plastic, so is consistent and is free.

Your using a Dial gauge, that could put a further 3.2 mm of pressure on the arrow

Top Infos!

Or you could just stuff a cardboard box.

Love the use of common equipment to make an elegantly simple spine tester, mighty appreciated!

You will enjoy switch to a Howard Hill/Don Brown style quiver. Good Hunting

You'll want to google DON BROWN Archer. Don (DB) was a favorite of Mr. Hill. I worked in his shop THE BLACK ARROW, in my youff... The "recoil" gets far worse in the heavier weights, #75 and up. Don shot a @125 daily. I shot a# 78 . I was sixteen at the time.

Thank you very much! Very helpful!

Great! Smart person needs explanations what causes what, not definitive solutions, that by nature, can't fit everybody. 👍

Thank you for the instructions

Simple DIY … Tip from a measurement technician … Unscrew the pointed tip from the dial gauge and measure with the flat end to avoid deviations from the arrow radius in the vertical measuring tip radius.

Good day, can I still order them?

Now the question is where do I get so much plastic as a filling? 😁

Draw weight at 28"? Arrow length and weight? Since you have a Chrono, what's the data? Did you hit anything with that high draw?

The best place I have found to get a ton of plastic is from Mattress warehouses. All the new mattresses are wrapped in it and they literally just throw it all away. I was quick and just dumpster dived but I’m sure they would have given it away if I asked.

if you use a classic bow with stabilisation, etc, 1,6 kg is not heavy, but stable enough for hunting or 3D competition ! UUkha (french product around 1000 €) gives a linear draw and witn the VX serie you feel like 4-5 pounds lighter than foam carbon limbs around 150 € the Sx 50 is more affordable (440 €), same smoothness but the Vx is 10fps faster (justify the price)...

16:30 Incredibly expensive , you can get 5 Black hunters for that amount.

Can this still be bought??

Would be useful to test the arrows right after the straightening to see if it stays.

80 in usa to buy one

Hi from perth western Australia can a person with back injury shoot a 64 inch ilf bare bow at 35 pound or are they beter off go a compound bow

I would contend that fletching size does matter with an increase in bow poundage. Naturally, the arrow itself is going to weigh more the higher you go in poundage (ie tapered 1/2 shafts for 150# war bows), so the fletching needs to work harder to stabilize all of that weight. Using the same size fletching on a heavier arrow means you get slightly less stabilizing effect, so using slightly more fletching is necessary to compensate for that. The increase in ballistic coefficient you gain with a heavier/denser arrow offsets the drag induced from the additional fletching, or to put it another way, keeping the same fletching with a heavier poundage will net less stabilizing drag. All other things being equal, the slight difference wouldn't be terribly obvious between something like a 35# bow vs a 55# bow anyway...but it would be there, however marginal it is. One other note that gets into fluid dynamics is how the shape affects the efficiency of the fletching. Looking at it aerodynamically, the fletching can be viewed as an aircraft wing, and when it develops lift, it causes the shaft to spin. The most efficient shape for a wing in subsonic flight is a high aspect ratio (very thin and long, like a sailplane or a wind turbine blade), this gives you the most lift (in this case, spin) for the drag it produces. Obviously we can't glue little airplane wings on our arrows due to clearance considerations, but it does demonstrate why certain shapes tend to do better than others. A long, low profile fletching like the trailing rear edge you've shown would be considered low aspect. A short, high profile fletching like the exaggerated parabolic shape found on modern carbon fiber arrows will lean more toward a high aspect ratio. If you want to get the absolute most out of fletching shape, more sticky outy and less lengthy lengthy.

Great. Super cheap and easy and simple. Most difficult is the weight. But one can also have some cup and fill it with rice and weigh it with kitchen scale. Great project after i made my own shaft cutting tool from an old drill and some boards. Thanks. I subbed 😊 👍

Danke für diesen wunderbar günstigen Tipp...hab sogar alles dafür zuhause rumliegen. ❤🎯

I went to buy this and the link isn't good anymore :(

Thanks for that, plain and simple 🎉🎉🎉

Hi, I came over your video three or four days ago and was really impressed by the simplicity of the diy spine tester. So I tried for myself to build it, had some trial-and-errors for placing the caliper upwards. By that trials I recogniced a special thing, concerning may be all of us who buy (have bought) a cheap digital caliper, mine was LIDL "PARKSIDE": the Vernier of (at least mine) caliper does not slide smoothly/evenly on the scale.. .it is sometimes a little bit tricky to measure even hard materials (like screw or metal profiles). So, what's the point: to get it sliding down the scale, mine Vernier needs something around 230 gramm starting-weight!!! And of course, that weight you have to ADD TO THE OFFICIAL 2#AMO (880g ASTM), otherwise your measured deflection/bending can not be compared to the " official" spine-charts, as it is bending lesser! (If not added, these 230g needed to slide the Varnier are SUBSTRACTED from DRAGGING THE ARROW!) So, don't buy a cheap digital caliper, but a "serious" one - or, even better (cheaper then), build the spine tester with the dial gauge, see RHA's Video! Regards, Dierk

I like this target idea better than having to build a box but I'll have to see if I can find a tub like that here in the U.S...probably. I'll have to admit, I had to go look up what "Hessian" is. I thought a Hessian was someone from the German State of Hesse, silly me. Of note, it is boat launching season here in the area surrounding the Chesapeake Bay where we live and that means lots of used plastic shrink wrap. People winterize their boats here using shrink wrap coverings, terrible from a plastics in the landfill point of view but I think it will work great to stuff a target. Thank you for the video and idea!

Love your video's. Do you have a book like your video's? I am a beginner and want to learn as much as I can on archery.

Incredible idea

West Hollywood archery 👍

I'm new to archery, but I've been putting 4" shield feathers on my arrows. I just like how they look. I use 3 and not 4. I feel like 4 is overkill for what I'm doing. The furthest I shoot is 25 yards.

I see all kinds of you ppl doing this shit!! Have any of you ever heard of a bale of hay or straw??

great presentation, thanks for your input.

Hi I'm interested in your Arrow spine chart how do I aquire one please many thanks

Thank You. This Helps

Just tried to get to your website to order on. Website address for sale, I'm guessing you're no longer trading?

there's no bell on shoulders bracers :(

Thanks for this presentation! I will be switching from aluminum to carbon soon because of the expense. I will be making arrows only for my own use, and I have most of the stuff to make this rig. It is an elegant setup. everything you need and nothing you don't.

I loved the video, wanted to build one for myself but the links go to a domain that is for sale. Where might I find them?

Very good idea, easy to understand. Have bookmarked it as I have several wood arrows that I need to check. Cheers.

I thought distance for sure tests are supposed to be 28", you say 26". I've seen conflicting info in this dimension.