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Pat B:
Put the cane in the sun and it will bleach out to the typical tan color.

BowEd:
The hill cane I got I got from Pat B.They were seasoned a few months before I got them I think.I let them season a few months more before making arrow shafts from them.
Most are a combo of light tan to light green now.The color of them never really bothered me that much.I don't think just because they look light green after 6 months means that they are still too wet yet to make shafts from.
7 months sounds long enough to season to me.

backtowood B2W:
Very nice collection!!
I cutted dogwood, hazel, plum, and service berry this Winter.
Plum seems to be heavier and maybe not so easy to plane down.
Could only get two serviceberries shafts, but imagine they would make great arrows too.
Thanks for showing your work. Only the ones who made arrows of shoots know how much work this is.
B2W

BowEd:
Thanks backtowoodB2W.I agree about the plum here too.I did'nt show the hazel but overall here they make same spined shafts like dogwoods too but slightly larger in diameter.
I guess I use dogwood shafts [maybe most are familiar with them] as a comparison standard to all the others.My preference is for as narrow a shaft as I can get that fills that bill with dogwoods/sourwoods/and ocean spray coming in second.

archeryrob:
Multiflora is the only wood I have used that you can start on them green. I've made arrows in less than a  week out of it.

cut the stock,
knock the thorns off with the back of the knife.
Use blade of knife to scrape off the bark.
Lay them in the truck bed in the sun and hand green straighten heavy the first day and light second day.
Heat straighten over candle with bacon grease and a wrench like you showed.
reduce to spine, nock, fletch and point.

The stuff green straightening well but doesn't like hot straightening on aggressive bends. When trying to do so I've had it split with the grain.
tried that with other white woods and they split length wise shortly after you remove the bark.

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