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Poplar Board for Arrows??

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Kegan:
My brother made a set of poplar arrows. They were excellent shafts. I would cut them to 3/8" squares though, as the ones Kyle did were a little finicky and seemed to like to gouge/

ricktrojanowski:
I made some out of poplar boards before.  I just ripped to 3/8" stock then hand planed.  They are heavier than cedar and I think pretty durable for a softer wood.  The poplar takes dye quite well.

Shooter_G22:
   how about 3/8" poplar dowels and then compressed down to a smaller diameter shaft like a 23/64" or even compressed down to an 11/32" shaft...  has anybody tried this????

  i am in dier need of some shafts and i was thinking of going to lowes here a little later and picking up some dowels to make arrows and i didnt want to use the 5/16" oak dowels i really like the look and feel of a thinker shaft but i think the 3/8" dowels are way too thick....
  i was also going to try and make a compersser block but not too sure how this would work..
sorry Ossage bender...   didnt mean to jump in and ask too many quetions but i thought id ask since they are realated to your question... ;)

Hey,  Ossagebender are you planning on making the 1/2 x 1/2 squar stock and then running them through a dowel cutter or were you going to plan it down with a thumb plan???

i made one arrow from a 1/2" x 1/2"  squar stock that i bought from lowes and i picked up ther thumb plan there too.. bout 6-7 dollors and i did the thumb plan thing and then chucked the close to round shaft in my cordless drill and then sand paper in hand and drill sanded it...  i really like that arrow, it shot really true but it ended up kinda barrel tappered...  and i never made another taht way thought it would really be difficult to try and get a set to come out all the same way....

thats why i'm waiting to get a dowel cutter and compression block... 

but i was thinking of if i could get a compression block made up and then just by the 3/8" poplar dowels then i could be in bussiness alot faster... for now ;)

wonder if that would work??????

stickbender:

     Shooter, how about grooving a board, and lining it with sand paper, and putting the near round shaft in the drill, and then putting it in the grooved board, with the sand paper lining it, and putting a grooved block on top to hold the shaft, and then hitting the drill trigger.  should give you some consistency......

                                                                                 Wayne

ozarkcherrybow:
The Poplar shafts that I have used shot nice, but needed to be checked for straightness every time I pulled them from a 3-d target.  They were easily hand straightened and seemed fairly durable at 23/64 thickness. These were made from poplar boards, never tried dowels.....Terry

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