Hey everybody this PJ Reilly from Lancaster Archery. Got another how-to
video for you in our series about building a hunting arrow. We've selected
the correct spine for our Black Eagle Rampage arrows. We know what lengths we
want to cut them. So here we are at the Lancaster Archery Supply warehouse arrow
cutting saw. It's good to use a cutting saw specifically designed for cutting
arrows when you're cutting your arrows for several reasons. First off it's got
built-in measuring devices so you can get the absolute correct length for your
arrow. Also it's going to have supports at the nock end at the front end so that
you can get a clean roll of your arrow. What can happen is if you try and do
this with a regular saw at home you can get an uneven cut and then your
components aren't going to fit flush. So we want it. Arrow saw is the best way to go.
We got plenty of them at Lancaster Archery. you can find them on our website.
We've already determined that my arrow length is going to be 29 inches. If you
want to know more about that you can refer to our video on choosing the
correct arrow spine. The arrow saw is set to cut this arrow at 29 inches. The
things you want to pay attention to when you're cutting an arrow is you just want
to roll it as you are making your cuts. You don't want to put any pressure in
the middle here. These arrows are flexible that's going to lead to an
uneven cut on the end. So you're just going to let the saw do its work You're
gonna twist from the both ends of the arrow and just make a nice clean cut.
So we'll do that.
Okay we've got our dozen arrows cut now we're gonna go show you how to prep them
for installing the components. Even though we used an arrow saw which is
designed to give us an even cut on the end of the arrow. It's still always best
to try and square up your ends to make sure that it's perfectly flat. You can
imagine if your point is in there and the end of your arrow is not straight it
can lean one way or the other and then you're gonna have erratic arrow flight.
So what we like to use is a device called the G5 Arrow Squaring Tool. This
is a real simple device that you can use to make sure the ends of your arrows are
flat perfectly flat. What we like to do is take silver sharpie and on the very
end of your arrow you're just gonna put that silver on there so you can see it's
got a full coating the whole way around. Then you're just going to put it in the
squaring device. There's two sides to this barrel on the squaring device.
One is basically like a gritty almost very heavy-duty sandpaper.
That's for carbon arrows. The other side has a blade right down the middle of it.
That's for aluminum arrows. So we're using carbon so we've got the carbon
side cued up in here and I'm just going to sit there it's got the supports for
the arrow. I'm just gonna spin this. I'm putting pressure forward into the
sanding device. I'm just gonna do that and make turns and I might make ten
turns and then take a look at it and you can see it looks like I've gotten pretty
clean. Maybe just a little bit more to get the last pieces off but it looks
like the arrow saw did a pretty good job of cutting, at least this arrow square. And
once all that silver is gone then I know that I have a flat end there so and of
course if you're gonna be putting in Lumenoks like we are it never
hurts to do the exact same thing to the nock end of the arrow. Okay so we've got
both ends of our arrows perfectly squared so now we're gonna put in our
inserts on the point end. And the Black Eagle Rampage uses what's called a half
out insert and that means part of the insert goes inside the arrow and the
other half is going to stick out the lip that we just squared the very end of the
arrow. It's gonna seat against this little ridge right here. So that's why we
wanted it perfectly flat now. There's going to be carbon dust inside the end
of the shaft from the cutting and sanding that we did. So we like to make
sure we get all that out of there so there's good adhesion for the glue.
So real simple just a little bit of alcohol put onto the end of a q-tip jam that end
in there and swirl it around and you'll see it's gonna be a little bit black on
there. That's just getting that carbon dust out. Now we're ready to glue in our inserts.
We're just going to use our Pine Ridge insert glue here. I've got a paper
towel to wipe away any excess. The insert process for the Black Eagle Rampage is
real simple. Just gonna take some glue just press it right in. You can see the
glue comes out. Got my towel over here. This glue takes about 30-40 seconds to
set up. So once I'm done just set it over there. Okay so we've got all of our
inserts put in there and now we're gonna switch to the other end of the arrow.
We're gonna put in our Lumenok. You're gonna have to make sure that you get the
right size Lumenok to match your specific arrow shaft. If you go to
Lumenok website they'll indicate which size Lumenok goes with which arrow.
The Rampage takes the X nock. Something you'll notice about the Lumenok is
sometimes they get a little bit sticky at the end and don't really want to
slide in too well. So we just take regular old bowstring wax and if you put
just a little bit on the very end of the knock like that.
It should help this slide right into place. So we're going to remove the factory
nock. Take our Lumenok slide it in there. There we got it. We know that it works.
Turn it on. Pull it out to turn it off. Our arrows are now prepped and ready to
move on to indexing. We're going to be doing that in a following video. If you
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