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Will Bamboo Work for 45# bow?

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dogleg:
Thanks guys, hink I'll order a batch.

Justin - Yeah, but then I've got to build one of them Amazonian bundle bows, to mach my 4' arrows, and to look right shootin' the thing there's that whole nose-bone thing.  Loin clothe gets a bit drafty around November, here in WI, I imagine.  I'll stick with somethin' that let's me role play, when I want, and still wear pants!   >:D

Off topic - A friends kid (big bow hunter, got all the newest kill-shot vids and x-box games), strutted up and told me that I'd have to build him one of those "old, antique sorta bows".  Looked down his nose when I told him my hickory Holmgaard pulled 45#, and proudly anounced he'd need at least 70#'s, as his new wheel bow pulled 80.  I just smiled and said he should at least pull mine first, to get a feel for what he wanted.  Got it about 3/4 draw, and carefully let it back down.  Said, "Well, maybe 60#."  His dad just smiled at me.   ;)

I copied that first paragraph, and e-mailed to my daughter in Peru (she's visiting her future mother in-law), and got the reply back, already.  Said her fiancee fell off his chair laughing at the though of this dumpy old white man, trying to stumble through the bush, in a loincloth.  Personally I think I'd look very rake-ish.  :-\

ricktrojanowski:
You can also reduce the spine by scraping the shaft. It thins is and reduces the spine.  Just be careful not to scrape too much.

Mechslasher:
the 8-10mm bamboo shafts will spine mostly in the 55-90#.  for your 45# bow, you may want to get the 6-8mm shafts.

DanaM:
I just bought a bundle of 500 from Ben Meadows, 3/8" x 4' haven't sorted all of em yet but it seems like I got a whole bunch of
light spine shafts ??? But with 500 to chose from at a cost of $76 I ain't complaining :)

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