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river cane nodes..

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hillbilly61:
how do you compress the nodes? I've been sanding all mine but I'm always up to trying something new.

aero86:
well, ive never tried it, but ive heard that heat up the node and just roll it between two pieces of wood, or two hard surfaces

Pat B:
That's exactly how I compress the nodes...heat then(one at a time)and roll them under a block of wood and a hard smooth surface. I use a block of osage and a maple butcher top kitchen table. I use our gas kitchen stove to work arrows.

Hillbilly:
I sand all mine even after straightening, and I've only broken one cane arrow in years of shooting them into trees, rocks, and Pappy's dadblame steel-belted fox targets. :) The nodes are the weak point when heated, but a sanded-flat river cane node is still about 50x stronger than a cedar shaft.

aero86:
sanded flat eh?  i might go a bit further with these 5 ive got going right now.  i filed them a bit, id like to try some flat bamboo.  i know the tonkin that i sanded flat never broke.  they always split at the point when i missed, but never broke at a node.

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