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zLego:
Hello, my bamboo arrows: http://www.my-bow.hu/?q=node/621
(Hungarian site)

DBernier:
What Hillbilly and Mullet said I also agree. One of the things I do to even the weight up (not sure it is a big deal) is to have about 3 to 4 inch's at the tip end in front of a node with the hole in it. That way you can weigh everything after you spine them and include short lengths of 1/32 dia. solder wire. You insert the wire  in the tip end and add a little CA to hold them in place. Cane arrows front loaded like this with Obsidian and "flint" points are devastating on game. I have one tipped with Texas Tab that went clean through a Texas pig and chipped the point in the soil and you could still shave with it.

Dick Bernier
Mebane NC

perry:
        I just sat down this morning and began footing some bamboo shafts that I straightened a month or so back I bought them for $5.00 a dozen at the local garden centre a while ago . Spines way stiff so I left them extra long and weighted up the point end with a 1/4 inch dia 4 inch long hardwood insert . Interesting that grease [ animal fat ? ] is used in combination with heat to straighten cane / bamboo arrows, I can see that would aid in less scorching of the shaft through a more even heat distribution . The things you learn on this site , good stuff .Thanks for the thread and tips people . regards Perry

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