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How to best use dogwood?

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Hillbilly:
What everybody else said. One thing I have found is that if you cut shoots a good bit bigger than what you need and plane them down to size, they seem to make better shafts and stay straight easier. I haven't found this to weaken them a bit-you're not really violating the grain because on a shoot the growth rings go all the way around the shaft, planing it down is kind of like chasing a ring on a bow stave. Like Hartung said, planed shoot arrows are many times stronger and tougher than commercial doweled shafts.

Kegan:

--- Quote from: Hillbilly on November 19, 2007, 08:49:36 am --- planed shoot arrows are many times stronger and tougher than commercial doweled shafts.

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Most stuff is ;)

markinengland:
Thanks to all for the advice. I am out today to cut a nice big pile of shafts.
Mark in England

markinengland:
Well, I cut a nice big bundle of shafts today. Don't know how many but a good armful so at least some of those should be flying next year.
In amongst the red to brown shoots were some very dark almost black stiff straight and very light shoots. I think they are dogwood, maybe old growth or dying back growth. Is this typical of doogwood? The shoots seems to vary a lot in colour and qualitya lot. I have high hopes for these black light shafts. They may make good flight arrows.
Mark

Hillbilly:
Don't know which species of dogwood you have there, but in most of the shrubby dogwoods here, the bark color varies with the age of the stem.First-year shoots often have brightly-colored bark, and it darkens with age.

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