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Shaft Materials?
david w.:
--- Quote from: Pat B on April 29, 2008, 01:27:43 am ---David, spice bush should be blooming in your area. Have you identified the shrub you talked about before for arrows.? Pat
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yep it is spice bush for sure i should make arrows from some pretty soon
Hillbilly:
Pat, have you tried sweetshrub? I made a few shafts up awhile back from it and I was quite impressed with its weight, spine, workability, and tendency to stay straight. I haven't tested them thoroughly yet, but I think it's going to be another great material.
cowboy:
I've used Salt Cedar (also heard it called Tamarisk) and other shoots of some kind that I need to ID one of these days. Just walk around in the thicker woods - their'll be something straight to try. Cane seems to capture my interest the most though - has been an obsession of sorts to find a source of good cane. Not that it's any better, I dunno - but it's what I want ;D.
recurve shooter:
i think i need to dry my cane indoors now. it got all brittle and stuff outside. thats what i get for being impatient :P
Kegan:
If you have large power tools, like a large bandsaw or table saw, you can cut up 3/8" squares from logs and turn them into shafts with a hand plane- or, if they're still slightly green, chuck them up into a corded power drill and run them through a piece of metal with graduated holes cut into it. The second method takes about ten minutes a shaft, maybe five if the grain is straight. I prefer this method as you can just use small billets from a stave tree, and hickory makes such sturdy arrows I wonder if modern carbon arrows could have met their match (hickory flexes, they don't).
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