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Privitt Hedge Shafts

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Pat B:
Hillbilly, generally the first growing season a shoot grows it will have leaves along the shoot. During the second season small branches grow from the leaf scars where the leaves were the year before.

hillbilly61:
Thanks y'all Got nuttin better to do today than enjoy it. ;D I straightened 14 river cane shafts allready and now I guess I'll go out and cut some privet. Have 50 more cane shafts drying. If I don't get to hot, might straighten some of them too. life's good when you're trying to get your mind off a failed bow  ;)

Bill Skinner:
Not your Boo Backed Osage?  Another thing you can do is work on them every night.  Striaghten them each night, when they dry, all you have to do is scrape and then sand with a sanding block.  Cut them as long as you can, the base has a swelling, and if it checks, you can cut it off.  I have found the ones I worked every night didn't check near as bad.  Bill

hillbilly61:
 Bill. I have to get a few irons out of the fire ;D Got 2 boo backed Osge board bows to try and NOT screw up :( And have another IPE to work on. Got 14 cane arrow shafts finished :) Now all I have to do is fletch them and put points on um Oh. Forgot the other 2 dozen cane shafts to straighten :o I think I need to retire so i'll have more time ;)

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