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California arrow woods and pruning and coppicing questions
SixRabbit:
At longer than one arms length, the base is 14mm and the top is 8mm. So major tapering. But even at 8-10mm diameter the elderberry appears to be strong enough for arrows, about like dogwood strength I'd say.
Pat B:
A sinew wrap would support the self nocks in a pithy wood. I've made arrows from horseweed, a perennial weed that dies to the ground each year. Thin walls, large pith but the sinew wrap supports it enough to shoot. You might not get 100 shots from one but it only takes one shot through the rib cage to kill a deer.
Ryan Jacob:
Pat B
Isn’t that plant basically a long tube of sandpaper? If that will work anything could :o
Pat B:
Horseweed is a long tube of lengthwise strands similar to cane. It's not as strong as cane but still strong enough.Add sinew wrap at the nock and around the head it strong enough to kill. I have a horseweed arrow that Jamie Leffler killed a deer in New England with that had a stone point and shot from a 45# sinew backed hickory bow. The only damage to the arrow is where the head was mounted. Even though the stone point was never found the arrow killed it.
Years ago in PA Magazine a guy wrote an article about making horseweed arrows.
DC:
--- Quote from: Ryan Jacob on January 07, 2018, 12:01:23 am ---Pat B
Isn’t that plant basically a long tube of sandpaper? If that will work anything could :o
--- End quote ---
Maybe you're thinking of Horsetail?
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