[Ansteorra-archery] CA Ammo - Tapered Shaft Issue

[Ken Theriot]

Here is a bit of a clarification about the whole CA tapered shaft thing
someone asked about.

Here is what the SCA CA Marshal said about it:

"The question of tapering fiberglass shafts to make it easier to seat
Fathead/CUBB blunts or UHMW cores came up at Gulf Wars this week.  The
answer is absolutely not. You may SLIGHTLY break the very edge of the
cut fiberglass by hand with a little sandpaper.  If you have tapered the
shaft enough to noticeably reduce the diameter you must dismount the
blunt, cut the end off of the shaft to square it up again, and start over."

Some folks in Ansteorra are thinking this means the ends have to be "squared
off."  Now having been there, and having seen the ones that were deemed OK,
versus the ones that are "no-nos" I can tell you they do NOT have to be
"squared off."  You can slightly taper the edges/corners to basically round
them off.  The concern was with several that were found that looked almost
like used pencils.  The ones that were held up and said to be acceptable had
the corners beveled off a bit, sort of how we do the courtesy bevel on UHMW
blunts.  

I don't want to have folks thinking they have to redo their entire stock of
ammo.  As a rule-of-thumb, if the ends of your shaft look like a pencil that
has ever been sharpened (even really dull ones with the lead broken off),
that is a no-go.  But if it resembles the courtesy bevel of the UHMW blunts,
it's fine.

I hope that helps.  Thanks Gunnarr and Vincenti for bringing this up!

Cheers,

Kenneth

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Copley [mailto:doug.copley at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 7:28 AM
To: Ken Theriot; Gunnarr haukr
Subject: Fwd: CA Ammo

Have you guys been discussing this?

I know that there is some ammo in the north that was tapered. Anyone 
that has all new ammo and did this can be told to re-work it.

Anyone that has had ammo for a couple of years and has some of both 
could be a bigger problem. There is not a way to tell the difference 
between ones that were tapered and ones that were not tapered without 
taking the head off. That would mean that they need to take the head off 
of every bolt to determine which ones might be tapered and then grind 
the ones that were tapered so that they are basically squared up again 
and then re-seating and re-gluing and re-taping all of the heads back on.

We need to make sure of what we need to do so that we can get busy on 
them since it takes some time to re-work the bolts. Expense wise it will 
not be much, some tape and some glue. Time wise, we are talking about 
some hours of work.

YIS,
Vincenti da Murano
Barony of Namron, Archery Marshal

--- In SCA-MissileCombat at yahoogroups.com, "John" <onebigelf at ...> wrote:
>
> The question of tapering fiberglass shafts to make it easier to seat
Fathead/CUBB blunts or UHMW cores came up at Gulf Wars this week.  The
answer is absolutely not. You may SLIGHTLY break the very edge of the
cut fiberglass by hand with a little sandpaper.  If you have tapered the
shaft enough to noticeably reduce the diameter you must dismount the
blunt, cut the end off of the shaft to square it up again, and start over.
>
> Baron Iain Fhearghuis
> Society Combat Archery Marshal
>


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