Oven curing paint and tiller bolts
My tiller bolts are shiny silver aluminium. I’ve always been slightly envious of the brightly coloured ones that Win&Win and some other brands sell. About the paint I bought a small bottle of Pebeo Porcelaine 150 paint in Lapis Blue about five years. It’s made for painting things like ceramic plates. I used it to…
Who wins one arrow shootoffs?
If a match is tied after 5 sets for an individual match or 4 sets for a team match, a one arrow shootoff is held. Each archer shoots one arrow, and the highest score wins. If the scores are the same, then the archer or team with the shot closest to the middle of the…
Looking at heart rate
Korea Archery recently published videos of “Special Matches” between national team members at the country’s national training center. The videos had an unusual feature that I haven’t seen before: the competitors’ heart rates. The feature only appeared a few times per match, and usually only covered a few seconds so often one archer was shooting…
A quick look at nocking point height
Having the correct nocking point height is crucial to having an arrow that flies in a way that its pointing in the direction that it’s moving. If the nocking point is considerably high or low, the arrow will look a bit like this when it comes out of the bow if viewed from the side:…
Effect of spine on recurve arrow speed
This is a topic that I’ve come across several times in different forums. There is the concept that when an olympic-style bow/arrow/archer system is tuned, the arrow speed will be higher than if it is out of tune. In other words, that there’s something about a tuned system that optimises energy transfer to the arrow.…
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