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Split Bamboo Shafts

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KenH:
There are no dumb questions, Steven; just ones that don't get asked and answered or at least explored.  I just tried rough rounding with a thin-wall split and it seemed to work.  No reason a rounded-corner square shaft wouldn't work.  By the time you got those corners "not sharp" you're almost at an octagonal cross-section anyway.

Here's a discussion of the homemade doweling jig that I would make to round those corners off:

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,17241.0.html

Justin Snyder:
Lets see some pictures.

El Destructo:
And hopefully not pictures of Bamboo Fibers embedded deeply into Human Flesh...when the Fibers let go...and pierce deeply into the Forearm or wrist of the Archer......... :(

IONIAN:
I've tried and it doesn't work. You will end up with a noodle. The power fibers give bamboo its strength and the interior is just extra weight. I've tried making them in hex shape also and ended up with logs that felt like wet noodles.

KenH:
  On another site I met a fletcher from the Czech Republic who makes "self arrows" by splitting heat treated bamboo and rounding the square shafts.  He's using bamboo with nearly 3/8" to 1/2" thick walls.

Mullet - did you say you had some thick-wall stuff lying around?  What'll it take to get a piece from you?   My first-born is already accounted for...

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