Dear All,
Have made a few sets of small wood blades now using the Alton Calculator as my starting point then using my own by eye, bodge it and run approach - so far seems to have worked out OK!!!! Please forgive the ignorance of the following lol!
Question is: If I want to carve out a 24" blade but need to leave 3" as the root for hub attachment - should I actually be cutting my timber at 27" to accomodate the root and leave the resulting 24" as the effective swept area?
Realise this may sound an odd question, reason for asking is that in the past I have calculated my blade length i.e. 21", 24", 26" etc then included my root section in this length. The question then dawned that if I am trying to carve a 24" swept area blade, by including 3" as the root section, I am not actually doing this but making a 21" blade as I am loosing 3" to my root section!!
Or have I lost the plot?
Thanks in anticipation.