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Ipe footing
mullet:
I think it would make great fore-shafts for cane or boo.
markinengland:
I have used ipe for arrow shafts and for foreshsafts on bamboo arrows.
I had some explosions of very thin flight arrows, but it has worked very well as thicker 5/16ths footings.
On my long Amazonian arrows some of the field points came off and I just sharpened them and shot them with the ipe as the point and they have done just fine. Absolutely no breakage!
The south american natives use black palm for their foreshafts/points by the way.
Mark in England
mullet:
That's kinda what I was thinking, Mark. It would be a true Primitive arrow in the Primitive division at a 3-D shoot.
Coo-wah-chobee:
--- Quote from: markinengland on December 31, 2008, 08:15:30 pm ---I have used ipe for arrow shafts and for foreshsafts on bamboo arrows.
I had some explosions of very thin flight arrows, but it has worked very well as thicker 5/16ths footings.
On my long Amazonian arrows some of the field points came off and I just sharpened them and shot them with the ipe as the point and they have done just fine. Absolutely no breakage!
The south american natives use black palm for their foreshafts/points by the way.
Mark in England
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Mark........South American natives also use ipe for their foreshafts. Howver that bein' said ipe is important at them and they use black palm ta save the ipe resource and palm is a lot easier ta work. Regards...bob
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tommy6:
Thank you all for the many responses. I will try it!
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