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oak dowels???

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The Gopher:
i use oak and poplar dowels for arrows, like others have said, be very pickey that the grain is straight and they will make great arrows.

riarcher:
Was at H Depot yesterday and looked at the Oak dowels there.
Only looked at the 3/8ths and after going through about 30 pcs, I only found 1 that may have worked.
Gave up, and continued on.

They had some other "white wood" dowels that looked much better.
But, nobody knew what they were. Each tagged "American Wood Products, Made in China"
I left.  :-X

recurve shooter:
lol

adb:
I use oak, ash and birch dowels for arrows, but only for my warbows, as a 3/8in dowel will usually spine out at more than 100 pounds, and they`re heavy. All good things for a warbow shaft, but no for normal weight bows.

Cacatch:
Yeah. My advice is to forget about dowel rods and just go straight to cane or some better material that you cut yourself or get from a fellow primitive archer. I used dowels for a while but now I wish I had never even messed with them. Plenty of guys on here have cane or other better materials that they would be willing to trade or maybe sell to you. Just my opinion and advice. You can use dowels, including oak, and they work, but just not as good as other materials that you have available to you here.

CP

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