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boomhowzer:
I've also made arrows from the racks at Menards. I've had pretty good luck with their hickory.

Then one time I got fancy and I footed some arrows with mahogany from Menards. Not a good choice. Don't touch their mahogany. I don't even think its mahogany. It's brittle, extremely light weight, even its color is lackluster compared to the mahogany I've worked with in the past. I think its cottonwood they soak in red food coloring. Either that or particle board.

My hickory arrows, on the other hand, I've shot hundreds of times into stumps, targets, mother earth, my front porch, my wife's flower garden, red squirrels, things that look like red squirrels but turn out to be beer cans, you name it, and they're still shooting! The mahogany footed arrows, not so much. Other than that, heck yeah! Menards and a table saw! Yahoo!

Don W:

--- Quote from: boomhowzer on June 02, 2021, 09:52:50 pm ---I've also made arrows from the racks at Menards. I've had pretty good luck with their hickory.

Then one time I got fancy and I footed some arrows with mahogany from Menards. Not a good choice. Don't touch their mahogany. I don't even think its mahogany. It's brittle, extremely light weight, even its color is lackluster compared to the mahogany I've worked with in the past. I think its cottonwood they soak in red food coloring. Either that or particle board.



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You'll find "mahogany" has become a catch all term for a whole slew of different kinds of wood. If it just says "mahogany", it could be just about anything!

BowEd:
At least it's wood fellas.There's nothing sounding so unnatural as to hearing a foul shot aluminum shaft clang through the woods into the dirt.
For toughness of wood arrow shafts try dogwoods sometime.Bamboo is tougher than them yet IMO.

Don W:
I just made a set of maple arrows. They won't be as tough as the hickory, but so much easier to straighten. I have made a lot of popular (because I have it and my t works fairly well). They do break once in a while but are easily fixed. I've have a few that I've fixed 2 and 3 times. I don't enjoy making arrows as much as the bows, but I'm to cheap to buy them, so I make them.

PaSteve:
Their mahogany is probably Spanish cedar. Used quite often as a mahogany "substitute"....at least that's what our suppliers tried to sell us as an "affordable" mahogany when I worked in a woodshop. It also makes good arrow shafts as long as you're selective. I prefer bamboo over any wooden shafts but that's just me. 

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