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Ian Johnson:
you dont have to spend $100 on a doz cedar shafts, 3rivers archery has them for around $30 already spined

roofus:
Oh. That's not bad. I can get Birch for .50 each and Maple for 1.00 each but I have to spine them.
What would be the major difference if they are all spined the same?

Ian Johnson:
if you get the 3rivers shafts, you dont have to spine them and they will all fly the same(if they are straight), find a spine that shoots good out of your bow and order that spine

Kegan:
I have used cedar ut of fiberlgass traditional bows. Never again. They couldn't take much abuse and cost too much for me. For a little more than I would pay for a dozen spined shafts, I can get 100 birch. Since i like to taper mine, the little extra working sanding them down to the desired spine (as birch is rahter stiff for its weight) isn't a big issue. Cedar recovers very well, and flies beautifully, but the durability is lacking compared to some other woods. Since I don't have a really good target, I do alot of stumping.

As for differences, there really is none. Maple doesn't seem as prone to warpage as birch is, but regular hand straightenning every once in a while eliminates this. Weight varies between wood species, but maple and birch aren't that different. If you can get both spine and weight to match pretty closely, then you might not be able to tell the difference.

I get my birch for about $0.33 a piece, which is reasonable since shafts do get broken.

Justin Snyder:
I would suggest reading George's site.  http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/archer.html
Also make yourself familiar with the search option here.   ;)

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