Main Discussion Area > Arrows

red cedar as arrows

<< < (2/2)

Minuteman:
Western red makes good but relatively frail arrows. Eastern red cedar , well I've never seen erc with straight enough grain to make arrows from. Its softer than the western though.

mike-dy:
Hi Guys,
         My first post here, I have made arrows from Western red Cedar, makes a real light shaft with 125 grain points my finished arrows @ 28" weigh between 350 to 360gns, my preference is old growth oregon , but I am trying some Quangdong that i Harvested over Xmas, so far its looking promising but its a very hard timber to work.

Looking forward to reading and learning more on here.
Cheers,
      Mike
Melbourne Australia

mullet:
  Welcome Mike. Whats Quangdong?

mike-dy:
Quangdong is a slow growing native timber from relatively low rainfall areas in Australia, not quite desert fringe regions. It is a fine grained, hard white timber, that is relatively light strong and stays straight. One of the trees I harvested was 35 years old and only 100mm in diameter, relatively hard to find with any decent length or knot free in the area mine came from.
 We have some great native timbers here in Oz and I plan on using what I can in my gear.
Cheers,
      Mike

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page