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What bamboo shafts should I buy online?

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artcher1:
Pat, are you the one that sent me the Bambusa (Gracillis I believe)? They made some of the finest bamboo arrows I ever produced. I gifted those to Neil Anderson.

Pat B:
Yes, Art. It is Bambusa multiplex, a clumping type of bamboo. My friend in Bluffton SC has a hedge of bambusa. The long internodes(12" to 15", 2 nodes per arrow), perfectly round culm, no sulcus, thick walls and minimal nodes. I still have a piece or 2 in the basement. I may even have a bambusa arrow you or I made. I think it would be a good bamboo for split bamboo fly rods too.

Russ:
I fill the tip and nock node with thin pieces of rivercane. Depending on the size of the node it will add weight to the spine and weight to the shaft. Also allows a stronger nock and a more secure broadhead will a smaller chance of splitting.

Pat B:
I stopped filling the void at both ends of a cane shaft years ago. It just isn't necessary. I haft trade and stone points and commercial glue on points and make self nocks. The sinew wrap at the self nock is plenty strong enough as it is at the point end and if I taper the point end to accept a glue on point that taper goes inside the socket, preventing it from splitting.

Russ:

--- Quote from: Pat B on October 31, 2019, 08:42:37 am ---I stopped filling the void at both ends of a cane shaft years ago. It just isn't necessary. I haft trade and stone points and commercial glue on points and make self nocks. The sinew wrap at the self nock is plenty strong enough as it is at the point end and if I taper the point end to accept a glue on point that taper goes inside the socket, preventing it from splitting.

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Yeah im not so worried about it splitting but I do take it into consideration. my shoots are barely marked for 45# and maybe my bow shouldn't even be spined to it but im just trying to get the weight up and the spine. i feel it helps raise the spine a ok amount. I dont have a spine tester but i do see a difference.

I was given 6 arrows from clint and im now down to 3. 2 of them slipped right under my grass and one broke. i found one that slipped under the grass but that was while i was trying to find the other one that went under!  (lol) it lost the fletching and the tip is rusted but i can use it for bear shaft tuning by bow!

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