Cutting carbon arrows

[Avalanche123]

Any suggestions on how I can cut my carbon arrows without spending alot of money on an expensive saw?

Thanks in advance.

[Alpine Addict]

Bring them into chilliwack dart and tackle if you live close by. And I will cut them for free. just pm me if your gunna.

[Bow Walker]

Check this little beauty out. It's what I use at home.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=42307

[Stone Sheep Steve]

I just use "Vise-Grips". Works like a charm:wink:.

SSS

[jessbennett]

dremel. or rotary cutoff tool. works well. can get them for about 15 bucks or so,.

[Avalanche123]

Thanks everyone. Bow Walker, where did you get that saw?

[Bow Walker]

I bought mine from a friend of my brother. You can order direct withourt undo stress or you can get them from Ebay.

I forgot to mention - DO NOT cut carbon shafts with anything other than a proper saw that has at least 5000 rpm.

[Avalanche123]

I went out and purchased a dremel. It should do the trick.

[Bow Walker]

Dremels - properly set up - have been known to work quite well. Good luck.

[Ron.C]

If you are using anything but the proper saw, make sure you carefully inspects the cut off ends before gluing inserts in. Dremels often tend to cause the carbon to splinter or crack at the ends which is bad news for and just a recepie for an arrow to shatter or drive a carbon splinter in your hand. This is exactly what happened to a fellow I shot with in Nanaimo last year

[Dirty]

Eye protection is a must! When a blade on a saw explodes it is not much fun. :biggrin:

[Bow Walker]

If you are using anything but the proper saw, make sure you carefully inspects the cut off ends before gluing inserts in. Dremels often tend to cause the carbon to splinter or crack at the ends which is bad news for and just a recepie for an arrow to shatter or drive a carbon splinter in your hand. This is exactly what happened to a fellow I shot with in Nanaimo last year
:idea:Invest in an ASD from G5 Outdoors (Montec). It'll square the ends of the shafts and also your inserts, so that everything is "true". Makes tuning your broadheads a snap.

:idea:Also another piece of equipment that (IMHO) is indispensable is the arrow spinner. It'll show you just how true everything is - which is essential to good arrow flight.

[Bowzone_Mikey]

I had a CDN tire dremel knock off that I turned into a saw .. worked well for the few arrows I used to cut ... Now I have the Apple Archery arrow saw ... way much better ..

[Bow Walker]

I use an Apple saw at work - those things are awesome. Now when I need to cut arrows for my own use - I go to work.

[Avalanche123]

Hmmm and so I have discovered that a dremel is not a great tool for cutting arrows......at least I practised first on a few old ones.

I can tune arrows using the dremel (since I spent $$$$$ on one already) and once I know my length, I'll take them and get them cut locally.

I wish I had let this thread run abit before I ran out and bougth a dremel. Oh well, I am sure it will serve other purposes.

[oldtimer]

Chris has a special cut off wheel at home but if he is not around I use the cut off wheel in our shop at work. Make sure arrow is clamped very well and full face shield is on and lower that big 14" wheel down. works great.