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harvesting and drying river cane
Josh:
always leave the rind on mine too. Haven't had a problem with river cane yet...
Hillbilly:
For primitive arrows, I leave the rind on, it's a good finish. I sand it off on a lot of my shafts, though because I like to take the nodes down even and often dye my shafts. I just hit it with some 150-grit sandpaper and replace it with Tru-oil. I do that after straightening and working the nodes down, though.
recurve shooter:
the 14 pieces of cane with nocks cut in em sitting in the lazy boy behind me are my absolute first try at making arrows. im really enjoying it and i have only nearly taken a limb off twice. (king of bad luck). it takes some patience, but its a REALLY cool thing to do. im still gunna have to hunt with wooden shafting this year, but hopeflully i'll have some nice canes figured out by then.
--- Quote from: Hillbilly on August 29, 2009, 11:19:16 am ---For primitive arrows, I leave the rind on, it's a good finish. I sand it off on a lot of my shafts, though because I like to take the nodes down even and often dye my shafts. I just hit it with some 150-grit sandpaper and replace it with Tru-oil. I do that after straightening and working the nodes down, though.
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when i get the basics figured out, i may get some detail instructions from you hillbilly on how to get them more consistantly spined and what not. i hope hedgeapple has as much fun with it as i am.
hedgeapple:
Thanks everyone for you help.
Recurve, it's fun making arrows, but at this point I'd rather spend my time learning to make bows. But a bow with arrows in like only have a left sneaker. It might be a perfectly good sneaker, but you would get far with just the one. haha
I cut 12 pieces of cane early last spring. Not really knowing what I was looking for in a cane shaft, only 3 of them were viable arrow shafts. I cut 7 pieces of cane last week. It looks like 6 of those will make an arrow. My field judging of cane is improving. haha
recurve shooter:
i know what you mean. i started out with about 30 pieces, and how have 14 possible shafts, but im sure some more of them will get tossed before they are finished.
if you can get the hang of makeing a bow, your a better craftsman than me. i tried, failed, tried again, so on and so forth. i kinda gave up on that for a while and im trying out arrow makeing. it suits me better.
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