How do YOU cut your carbon arrows to length?

[SPUD]

It's a tubing cutter for gods sake, not a diesel powered combine carrying nitro glycerine being held by an epileptic pygmy striking matches repeatedly while juggling sticks of dynamite! If you ran over a carbon arrow with your truck tire, the tire and truck will be safe. You blast the same shafts out of your bow a mere inch from your eye! Is it that volatile? Worst thing you could do is go to fast, against the posters instructions, maybe have a dull blade, and end up with a rough cut end. You should not have ANY emergency room bills here. If you do, step away from the tool box, and list your bow on Ebay. I liked the idea of a poster practicing on a bad arrow. That's just common sense. Oh, and don't use anything but Harley oil in your Harley. You'll ruin it, the engine will cease up, and the world will be a bad place. At least accoring to Harley. They also have people in an "I'm scared to try it mode". Helps with the bottom line. I like people who are do it yerselfers and can think through a fix, instead of tossing money at it, regardless of their personal finances.

Well now....Thanks for setting us all straight.

[hunterman]

When you buy them let the guys at the store cut them to length

[JBS]

Cutting carbon fiber shafts with a metallic tubing cutter induces stresses risers and micro fracture just waiting to fail under the subjected forces of acceleration of modern compound bow cams. You are setting up a catastrophic accident. Tic tock, tic tock. Use the proper tool for the job.

[3children]

Beside NOT using a tubing cutter, you might want to invest in a cheap face mask. The dust is bad for the lungs, and I don't know how much is too much. Please guys the mfg says, DO NOT CUT SHAFTS WITH ANYTHING ELSE BUT A HIGH SPEED SAW!

[JMG]

Cutting carbon fiber shafts with a metallic tubing cutter induces stresses risers and micro fracture just waiting to fail under the subjected forces of acceleration of modern compound bow cams. You are setting up a catastrophic accident. Tic tock, tic tock. Use the proper tool for the job.

Is that pic from an arrow exploding while being released?

[JBS]

And if you were wondering there is NO medical equipment that will find carbon fiber shards or splinters in the human body. I know I have carbon fiber in my left hand….and no it did not come from an arrow shaft failure.

[JBS]

Is that pic from an arrow exploding while being released?

I was told YES

[Nitro1970]

I was thinking about one of these http://www.fsdiscountarchery.com/arr...ffsaw5000.aspx Looks a lot like the one that I saw in the shop that cut my arrows last time.

[JBS]

100.00 bucks

http://www.bowhunterssuperstore.com/american-archery-products-8000-ultra-dust-p-8968.html

[Bill]

I was told YES

I get my shafts cut to length at the local archery pro shop I order them from, and they do not charge me for the 'service'. I bring them home and fletch/ glue in the nocks and inserts myself.

If the use of a tubing cutter caused fatigue or stresses in the carbon arrow shaft, it would not break 20+ inches away down the shaft like in that picture. What I would expect (but have not seen) would be the shaft might (possibly) develop a crack at the insert which worked it's way backwards down the shaft.

Where I have seen carbon arrows break in front of the fletching like that (and I'll come clean amongst friends here) was when I (dumb-****) soaked my carbon arrows in acetone to removed the old glue the 1st time I refletched them. I took the refletched arrows to the range for a 3d shoot, and had 3 arrows snap right where the 'line' of the acetone on the shaft had been. Lucky for me they snapped when they hit the 3d targets, not when I released them. I got rid of the others el-pronto.

[JMG]

I was told YES

Wow. That looked painful and I'm sure it was jagged when it went in.

[grizzlyman]

X2

Same here. I buy shafts from Hunter's Friend pre-cut. They will cut to the nearest 1/4" if I remember correctly.

[cheez]

Well now....Thanks for setting us all straight.

Yes Sir! And on his first post to boot

[Mike D]

It's a tubing cutter for gods sake, not a diesel powered combine carrying nitro glycerine being held by an epileptic pygmy striking matches repeatedly while juggling sticks of dynamite! If you ran over a carbon arrow with your truck tire, the tire and truck will be safe. You blast the same shafts out of your bow a mere inch from your eye! Is it that volatile? Worst thing you could do is go to fast, against the posters instructions, maybe have a dull blade, and end up with a rough cut end. You should not have ANY emergency room bills here. If you do, step away from the tool box, and list your bow on Ebay. I liked the idea of a poster practicing on a bad arrow. That's just common sense. Oh, and don't use anything but Harley oil in your Harley. You'll ruin it, the engine will cease up, and the world will be a bad place. At least accoring to Harley. They also have people in an "I'm scared to try it mode". Helps with the bottom line. I like people who are do it yerselfers and can think through a fix, instead of tossing money at it, regardless of their personal finances.

Although I don't even feel this is intelligent enough to even warrant a response I will just say, you do it how you want and I'll do it how I want.

[WalkieTalkie]

look up arrow saw under the DYI section