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Tonkin or spruce shafts?
tattoo dave:
I'd be bamboo over anything all day! However, like mentioned...you gotta shoot something in the mean time.
Tattoo Dave
Thumper2:
Dirk,
Sapele!
I made some from scrap that my boy used to make custom doors. They came out beautiful, and pretty tough. They sorta look like lacewood, and stain well. might surprise you.
TSA:
i am a wee bit biased ;) ;D, but i prefer the spruce!
seriously though, i dont think you will go wrong with either- the bamboo may take more effort to build a good shaft- but they can be tough!!
dont underestimate good spruce though- good SITKA spruce that is- the German spruce out there is not that good. check for sure which spruce variety it is!!
i have spruce stumping arrows, that i have shot thousands of shots with- but hit enough hard stumps, and rocks- they will eventually ( after a ton of abuse )start to compress right behind the point. make sure they are well tuned- and hitting your target square- and they will serve you well- but i guess the same is to be said for all shafts!
Bryce:
I would go with the Tonkin shafts.
Sitka spruce is great arrow wood grows all around where I live.
But there are a lot a spruce species. Who knows what type of spruce you'll be getting.
Dirkthearcher:
Thanks for the replies everyone! Wayde, the person I got the shafts from was Johnny Snyman from Heartwood bows. The arrows turned out good, sadly one broke when it hit a tree but oh well... I contacted Johnny and he's still having issues with importing tonkin. I have looked for other arrow shaft alternatives but as I live in the middle of the city it's hard to source anything. I'm definitely not using any form of doweled shaft again... only bamboo, reeds or shoots.
Sorry for the long post
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