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Doug fir shaft material

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Woodely:
I know what you are saying about finding and digging thru lumber yard material, it can be difficult to obtain good stuff.   This is why I use Hemlock most stufff is knot free the grain is very straight and out of 40 shafts I get at least 20 that are spined 3# within each other.  On another note I hand plane mine from square blanks and finally sanding them to 11/32" ..  I End up with very straight shafts, I was buying my shafts from a Professional before and he made them using the router drill method and to many of them were cock-eyed and they had bad grain.

Nice car plate.  :)

Eric Krewson:
Another footnote; the wood I mentioned is wet on the inside, I have been making bee traps out of the 4x4, when I drill the center hole the sawdust from the center has a lot of moisture in it. One would need to rip the 3/8" blanks and let them dry a bit before turning them into arrow shafts.

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