Alan,
My main point is that they are in general more consistent, which is probably supported by the fact that you and I both have won a few medals using shafts with the conventional edge grain orientation.
It is perhaps relevant to note that most folks seem to take it on faith that if the ring lines are straight then the shaft must be true, but as Chris Boyton recently observed, that is no guarantee that the longditudinal grain in the axis of the rift will be true in a dowel made from a sawn billet.
You were with Clayton Bowmen over at Stoke, as I recall.
My observations were not a personal challenge but a more general observation as to the efficacy of the conventional orientation.
What are you doing these days?
BTW Was that the Scottish where Dennis got bollocked for shooting a whistler down the hill?
Rod.
My main point is that they are in general more consistent, which is probably supported by the fact that you and I both have won a few medals using shafts with the conventional edge grain orientation.
It is perhaps relevant to note that most folks seem to take it on faith that if the ring lines are straight then the shaft must be true, but as Chris Boyton recently observed, that is no guarantee that the longditudinal grain in the axis of the rift will be true in a dowel made from a sawn billet.
You were with Clayton Bowmen over at Stoke, as I recall.
My observations were not a personal challenge but a more general observation as to the efficacy of the conventional orientation.
What are you doing these days?
BTW Was that the Scottish where Dennis got bollocked for shooting a whistler down the hill?
Rod.
