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Amazing arrow material
Don W:
I've tried poplar, maple, hickory and beech so far. I haven't found a straight enough piece of pine yet. Iion my To-do
They look great!
Pat B:
Old, well seasoned arrow materials can be found at salvage yards that sells used lumber and even old furniture and doors, many of which were made from straight grained spruce or fir and other appropriate woods.
JW_Halverson:
Tom Braun in South Dakota made some of the best arrow shaft material I have ever shot. It was old growth fir from a barn, well over 100 years old. Some of the 23/64 shafts had as many as 25 growth rings and I had to cut the shafts on a sharp bias and look through a magnifying glass to count rings!
Sadly, he has used all that up and I can't get them anymore.
mullet:
I had a friend that found some straight grained Pine lumber at one of the box stores and made some incredible arrows from it. That was the first I had seen from Pine but I wouldn't hesitate to use it in the future.
Gimlis Ghost:
Its been decades since I made any primitive arrows but back then I used viburnum shoots.
I had a very thick hedgerow and though only about one in fifty shoots were straight enough I harvested quite a few when cutting it back to build a fence.
I have a few thick yard long shoots I cut maybe 15 years ago that I've been meaning to dig out and try making a few shafts. They've been stored in a long cardboard box all this time.
The wood is very tough and springy unless it dries out too much. Plenty of pin knots but they don't seem to affect the finished arrow much at all.
Using a cartridge brass head I once drove one through a galvanized steel fence panel without damage to the arrow.
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