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Sanding nodes quickly

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crooketarrow:
   Heating the node work to make them smaller.  But when ever you use heat arrow or on bows you change the wood cels.Which weakins it. On arrows this works but our arrows weakin to side ways movment.

Hillbilly:

--- Quote from: Tom Leemans on December 14, 2010, 11:25:17 am ---I leave the nodes a little proud on my arrows. I sand them just enough to smooth them over. I've only used tonkin so far but I've seen cane arrows with the nodes sanded way down and I cringe too. :-\

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River cane is considerably tougher than tonkin, or at least the varieties of both that I've used. I sand my nodes down flat, and they bounce right off rocks and trees. Never broke but one cane arrow after shooting thousands and thousands and thousands of shots with even-sanded node arrows, and it broke right behind the point after hitting a 1/2" pice of steel. I've shot cane arrows through sapling trees with several inches of the point end sticking out the other side of the tree and the nodes didn't break. A sanded-flat node on a cane arrow is still ridiculously stronger than a cedar or any other commercial shaft.

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