ARCH - UHMW blunt construction tips
Wilim Penbras
wilim.penbras at pandora.org
Fri Apr 20 15:44:08 PDT 2001
Well, now... technically speaking I'd call Fiber tape on fiberglass a personal choice. The Particpants handbook clearly says Electrical tape is acceptable for Fibreglass Shafts only. I'm kinda partial to my Black and Gold Arrows.
Wilim
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Eadric Anstapa" <eadric at scabrewer.com>
Reply-To: ansteorra-archery at ansteorra.org
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 21:34:44 -0000
>Here is pretty good URL on constructing UHMW blunts.
>
>http://www.dellarco.com/ontarget/bodies/uhmw.html
>
>Now he advocates using electrical tape on the shaft and YOU should be using
>fibreglass strapping tape.
>
>Regards,
>
>
>--
>Lord Eadric Anstapa
>Coastal Regional Archery Marshal, Ansteorra
>eadric at scabrewer.com
>
>
>"Dewart, Charles R. --G3 Contractor (Anteon Corp)"
><Charles.Dewart at hood.army.mil> said:
>
>> I wish I had one to send you. Perhaps someone else out there does.
>> Basically, what I was going to do was cut the stick into 1 inch section.
>> Drill a hole the size of the shaft 1/2 inch deep. Round / bevel the other
>> side. Then put what I call a battle smurf on it. A battle smurf is two 1
>> 1/4 dia. dics of closed foam with a 1 1/4 inch dia. leather disc on the
>> front (I won't put the rear one on there now because of the UHMW). The
>> combat head is tape so that the tape forms a cone behind the head. Besure
>> that the distance from where the string rests to the back of the taped cone
>> is not more than 28 inches.
>>
>> Gilli
>
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