<P>I am building some arrows from cedar, and maple. Spinning them through a dowel maker and planning to taper. I was wondering about arrow spine. Do you measure wood Arrow spine with the grain vertical or horizontal? Or both and take the average? Does it even matter? </P>
<P>Againist the grain is best, just like you shoot it off your rest with the edge of the grain againist the side of the bow.</P>
Vertical. Straight up in your tester. Jawge
<P>Here is an image of what I understand you to be saying:<BR><BR><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="http://www.aye1.com/images/Spine.jpg" align=baseline border=0></P><BR>The grain runout was a suggestion from another site. Suggestion was that, should the arrow fail, the remaining shaft would fly up and away from your bow hand. :eek: Ideally there is no runout.
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<P> This is better than "Ye Olde Way" laying Horizontal?? I musta been sleeping when this Way came around or sumpin'.<IMG src="http://www.websitetoolbox.com/images/boards/smilies/confused.gif" align=absMiddle border=0></P>