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harvesting and drying river cane
PeteC:
Dave ,I cut my cane,let it sit in my shop for a month,straighten it,sand down the nodes,cut in nocks and wrap with sinew.Then weigh them,and set them aside for a few days,checking weight until it stabilizes.Then build arrows.It's that simple and quick. God Bless
recurve shooter:
oh, and cane is stiffer than you would think it is. all mine came out spined for about a 90 lb bow. :-\
PeteC:
You need to cut smaller diameter cane Recurve shooter. ;) God Bless
Pat B:
Leave the cane longer than you normally would. For each inch over 28" you can subtract 5# of spine weight and you can reduce the spine weight by 10# because of the natural taper of the shaft...so a 90# spined cane arrow cut to 32" would yield an arrow spined for a 60# bow. This is with 125 gr. point. Plus or minus that also effects the spine weight.
(4"x5#=20#+10#=30# subtracted from 90#=60#) Same arrow but cut 4" longer.
recurve shooter:
man, i just finished my algibra homework, come to check up on the website, and i get more math!
i dont have a spine tester pat, its really just gestamation. im compareing the bendyness of the shaft to that of my lonley little rabit fluflu. i have 2 that may work, and for some reason i already cut them to 26 inches.....cuz im an idiot.
anyway, im gunna do some final tweaks to the streightening and bare shaft em tomorrow. i may get one decent arrow out of the 30 pluss canes i cut. bout what i expected for the first try.
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