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BowEd:
Thanks fellas....I usually like to keep quite a few bundled in groups of 7 cure drying over a longer period.Sort of a small type assembly line.

Final heat correctioning usually will keep them straight.I've never needed to do any grooving on mine.
I use different colored fletching/spine weight/and mass weight to identify what is what.
I did'nt show some hazelnut shoots that make excellent arrows also.
Most all shoot shafts are tougher than any split timber shafts.Although many woods can be used also for split timber shafts.I've experimented successfully with hickory/elm//DF/hemlock/honey locust/black locust//maple/walnut/spruce/ash/ and even osage[too heavy for spine gotten for a 50# bow].Always looking for a nice balance of diameter/spine/and mass weight.Some are too thick IMO for their spine.
Laminated bamboo flooring make excellent heavy mass weight shafts.
IMO split timber hickory shafts are about as tough as a split timber shaft can get.Good diameter with good mass weight and spine too.Think it might have to do with it's interlocking grain qualities.

Pat B:
You always make nice arrows, Ed. What do you think of the hill cane? How does it compare with the other shoot shafting?

gifford:
Ed - really nice looking arrows, and it looks like you've got another set or three already drying. Kudos. Making a shoot arrow is a lot harder than it looks imho.

BowEd:
Pat B....Thanks,the hill cane shafts made excellent arrows.Easy to work with and straighten.All relatively close in all final dimensions of diameter/mass weight/and spine.They must of been harvested all in the same area.I'll use them 3D shooting or hunting with my FG bow toting buddies.They shoot carbides looking like wood but are'nt wood.All shafts being same diameter the hill cane mass weight wise came in just slightly less than dogwood but still in the 550 to 575 grain weight range...perfect.Beautful looking shafts.
Although I do like to keep a few carbides around to shoot to compare the shoot shafts flight too.It's a good test.
gifford...Thanks,it seems when a person gets one made from a bunch you will have a template to go by[if they are harvested all in the same area].I make them with a pocket knife,and sand paper/drill/grain scale/spine tester and sometimes a sizing tool[chunk of moose horn with holes of different diameter drilled through it.It is time consuming.I do them in stages of straightening/spining/sanding/spining and weighing/bareshaft shooting/and then finishing and fletching.
I keep a close watch on my dogwood patches.I count around 9 patches.All growing in ditches along gravel roads or along creeks seen easily from the road within 2 miles of me.I guess 1 advantage about not having too many more self arrow makers around is that they don't get raided by anyone but me.

neuse:
Very nice arrows.
Lots of work.

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