Broadheads, left bevel or right bevel?

[sinawalli]

#5966

I shoot right handed, which one should I use or does it matter? Why? Thanks!!:)

[David Petersen]

#46379

Doesn’t matter so long as broadhead bevel matches feathers — either both left or both right. Otherwise they work against one another, trying to spin the arrow in opposite directions.

[sinawalli]

#46400

David Petersen wrote: Doesn’t matter so long as broadhead bevel matches feathers — either both left or both right. Otherwise they work against one another, trying to spin the arrow in opposite directions.

Thanks Dave!

I can’t remember which feathers I bought, how do you tell by looking at them?

[Robin Conrads]

#46515

Here is a tip we published a while back that should explain it. A picture is worth a thousand words! 😀

Single Bevel Broadheads

[sinawalli]

#46563

Webmother wrote: Here is a tip we published a while back that should explain it. A picture is worth a thousand words! 😀

Single Bevel Broadheads

Excellent! Thank you!

Now, why do you want a single bevel as opposed to a double bevel?

[Robin Conrads]

#46575

That is a personal choice, much like recurve vs. longbow. You might want to read Dr. Ashby’s study Why Single-Bevel Broadheads?, and then make your own decision. Members can access the Ashby Library in the dark green menu above, or from the Friends of FOC forum.

[Paul Mwttmann]

#52634

I use a right bevel as, being right handed, I find the right bevel easier to sharpen by holding the shaft/head in my right hand and draging it back towards me on a bastard file which is fixed to the bench.

[David Petersen]

#52798

Hey Anti — that’s the best reason I’ve ever heard for selecting R or L bevel heads (assuming of course the fletching matches). Of course! I’d like to say it never occurred to me because I’m ambidextrious and also mostly use a KME jig for sharpening. But I think it didn’t occur to me because it’s so darned obvious. 😆 And by the way, we are allowed to speak of bastard files here. 😯

[Ralph]

#53033

David speaks..

“And by the way, we are allowed to speak of b*****d files here.”

Can we be more specific on this type of file for these young innocent ears here? 😆 Ah! Buzzard file…:lol:

Now to further this for serious, someone with artistic skills might show which is R vs. L bevel of a broadhead for all of our information. I’m thinking from what I read that my old original Grizzly heads should not have worked for my left wing fletches. 😉 Not debating, just being an ornery old b*****d f**t!!!

[David Petersen]

#54219

I think we’ve just been Webmotherized. I spelled out the word bastard, which is a word you can find on labels and packages of files. I don’t know the history of the name, but a mill bastard is the most common file for sharpening broadheads. In context it’s no way rude and should not, IMHO, be filled with asterisks rather than letters. Maybe part of the program does it automatically. Let’s try it this way and maybe fool the program: b-a-s-t-a-r-d. It’s not an insult but a file cut. 😆

[Ralph]

#54222

I was just playing:D:D Whoops. I think your right though. My asterisks were on purpose as I thought yours were. I didn’t know there were any other kinds of files forever as a youth other than a round or triangular file.

[Robin Conrads]

#54254

Ha ha! It wasn’t me. Our system has a list of forbidden words. I removed “bastard” but I kinda wish I hadn’t looked at the rest of the list. 😯 I’m glad you guys don’t use words like that! 😀

[Ben M.]

#54509

In high school senior english class we learned about William the Conqueror –AKA William the Bastard– and, for some juvenile reason, my buddies and I couldn’t get enough of it. We used the word ‘bastard’ in every context we could dream up, short of a curse. Like all good kids do, we pushed our teacher to the brink of her sanity. I realized she was with us in the joke when, one day, she presented me with a book entitled The Bedside Book of Bastards. She’s still one of my very favorite teachers.

[Ed Ashby]

#54905

Just for edification: A file’s coarseness of cut is classified according to the spacing of teeth. The names used to designate the different grades of cut range from rough, coarse, bastard, second-cut, smooth and dead smooth. A bastard file is a file whose cut is intermediate between the coarse cut file and the second cut file.

Ed

[Ben M.]

#54980

Wow! Never knew it. Thanks, Dr. Ashby!

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