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Cromm:
Hi, I'm writing an item for my club on what wood people use for their arrows. If you have the time can you put down what you use and why? IT would really help if you can say where you're from too! Thanks for your time.  ;D ;D

DanaM:
So far I have used Sitka spruce store bought, red osier shoots, white ash from lumber, tonkin cane that bob sent me, and a few wild rose shoots.

Hillbilly:
I've tried a lot of different things for making arrows, some work well, others don't. Off the top of my head some things I've used/tried: Split timber shafts from white ash, white pine, tulip poplar; ramin, poplar, and birch dowels; shoot shafts from river cane, switch cane, Japanese arrow bamboo, sourwood, arrowwood viburnum, black haw viburnum, witherod viburnum, hazlenut, sweetshrub, buffalo nut, silky dogwood, redosier dogwood, chinese privet, bush honeysuckle, horseweed, Heptacodium, serviceberry, red maple, black locust, white ash, hickory, autumn olive, fraser magnolia, multiflora rose, swamp rose, and probably a few other things that I can't think of at the moment. My favorites from those would be switch cane, sourwood, buffalo nut, white pine, and arrowwood viburnum.

jamie:
i prefer white ash split shafts over anything. also native to my area and easy to make under most conditions.

stiknstring:
POC for me until recently...

finishing up some poplar shafts soon
collecting osier this weekend as well so that I have some projects for the winter

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