FTR, I did a few cuts on an old Benan IcS bowhunter arrow and was excited to get started on my newer ones. Different carbon material altogether. The old Bemans cut cleanly and te newer ones had whole strands from the inside of the arrow peel away and tear! 😁😁 Don't know why this is but I'll either be buying more expensive arrows or an arrow saw next time.
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Save yourself a lot of money and just get a saw to cur them with. Using a pipe cutter actually crushes the inside of the shaft rather than cutting the carbon, and this makes the arrow extremely dangerous to shoot.
It can have lateral cracks that run the length of the shaft that you don't see, splintering on the inside of the shaft that could make it explode like a bomb is inside it, not to mention the sloppy chewed off end that you are trying to get square enough to put an insert in.
No arrow manufacturer recommends using a pipe cutter for cutting shafts. High speed abrasive type blade only.
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IMHO you don't even need an arrow saw. I use a dremel with a diamond wheel at high speed and cut the arrow a couple of millimeters long, grind it as flush as I can eye-balling it. The I go back and use an arrow squaring tool. If you only cut arrows every blue moon I feel it's a pretty cheap and effective way to go. The arrows are cut right and properly squared and all I spent on my setup was $40 instead of $80-$200.
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