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yall have got me determined.

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recurve shooter:
thanx pat. i woulda never thought of that one, and ill keep yall posted. think im gonna cut some this weekend.

Hillbilly:
I work mine down completely even/flush with the shaft, and I've never broken one yet, even with direct hits on trees and rocks. I have broken probably hundreds of wooden arrows. It may make them a little weaker than they would be, but a weaker cane arrow is still fifty times tougher than a cedar or other wooden arrow, even hardwood shoots. I've always heard not to file them down, but my own experience has shown me that it don't hurt a thing, and I don't want all those bumps sticking out of the shaft to hit the bow as the arrow is leaving. I've seen pics of cane bowstrings made from strips of split cane with the nodes worked down completely smooth. If smooth nodes are strong enough to hold up for a bowstring, they probably aren't gonna weaken your arrows too much.  :)

cowboy:
I've been straightening cane shafts in the evenings at hotel all this last week - have been doing it exactly the way Hillbilly described. Using a candle for my heat source (as per Mickey Lotz tutorial), rub a little cooking oil on section your heating and heat till the oil turns black, rub it off with a rag and straighten. I've notice that you can still straighten on them even after they've gotten cool - think they may still be a little steamy on the inside.
 Haven't tried rolling the nodes under a hard block to compress em, will play around with that some next time..

cowboy:
Allright! Got em done :P. Here's about four evenings in BORING hotel room worth of straightening :). Those on the right are what I got from Hillbilly, those on the left were some I cut in Houston - the nodes are way farther apart, not sure what it is :-\. Anyway, those on right were snaky, twisted, and bent - kinda like Marie Lavoe ;D. Crisco, candle, elbow grease, and eyeball is all it takes ;).

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Hillbilly:
Good looking shafts. Looks like you got 'em tamed (except for the first node of the one on the right.  ;D ) That was a pretty gnarly batch of cane, I didn't bundle it like I usually do, just piled it up on my workbench until it dried. I've made some good arrows out of that same batch, though. Looks like you've got the hang of it now, after doing a bunch of them you get a lot quicker at it. One thing about the cane, once you get it straight, it usually stays that way.

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