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Reducing Nodes

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agd68:
I recently made my first ever cane arrows out of garden stakes. some I straighten first then reduced the nodes I tried reducing the node first on 3 of them but when I heated and tried to straighten the node area they snapped like chalk. I don't profess to be an expert, just my experience on my first attempts.

Tom Leemans:
I took two sand paper discs, like you'd stick on a bench sander and bolted them together, face to face, then chucked it up in the drill press. I scalloped the edges of the discs so the edges don't dig in. The discs have to be really flexible so they'll spread apart as you sort of wedge the shaft in between them. You turn on the drill, then spin the arrow shaft as you push it in between the discs. Takes a little practice but works good. I got the idea after watching a video of this dude making Korean arrows. His was much cruder though. He had an electric motor sitting on the ground that looked like your cousin Bubba just wired it up with some wire he had left over from his old truck.

Hillbilly:
Reducing the nodes before straightening is a recipe for broken shafts. I always straighten first, then reduce the nodes. There are lots of ways to get the nodes down that all work well, some are just faster-belt sander, Dremel with sanding drum, file, knife, flint flake, sandstone, etc. I usually use my Dremel and sanding drum.

hillbilly61:
Wellll. I know one that is gonna break.  :( I sanded it today but still need to straighten it. I think I'll just wait a few weeks an use it to plant tomato's ;D Thanks for all the info You guys are great.
 

Hillbilly:
You can try it-it very well may not break if you're gentle with the nodes when you're straightening it. Just saying that they are a lot more likely to break if you have to do any major bending after reducing the nodes, enough so to straighten first as a general rule.

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