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BowEd:
Spot on advice from Pat.
Mafort....Hickory will be your heaviest/toughest and narrowest shaft.The others will all make shafts but in a thicker final spined finish.Birch and hard maple would be my second choice.Not familiar with mahohany although I see it for sale.
It's the best to have as straight a grain on them as possible.No knots a weak point etc.I personally like as narrow of a shaft as possible but that's just me.
Shooting with the edge grain against the bows and it's stiffest side.
The tools I use are a spiner,grain scale,sand paper,drill,and a sizer.Sizer is just a pieces of moose antler with holes drilled of sizes.I'm sure you have your own method though.
It might be you'll need to heat correct some which is fine.I use a mantle lamp for that.
You can full length parallel.full length taper,or barrel tapered type shafts.
Lots of fun.

willie:
spruce? pine? doug fir?   look for fine grained boards

I find confir tends to stay straighter and theres a lot better chance to find a good board as theres is a lot more to pick from when shopping at the lumberyard

Don W:
You should "try" them all. That's part of the fun. I use poplar a lot because I have a lot of it. I've used oak, Maple, and ash. I'm working on a set of maple shafts with wenge footing now. Experimenting and testing is half the enjoyment .

bownarra:
Wenge is a bit brittle for footings. But yes try it all out for yourself :)
You have to try hard to beat osage for footings :)

Don W:

--- Quote from: bownarra on May 03, 2021, 02:55:46 pm ---Wenge is a bit brittle for footings. But yes try it all out for yourself :)
You have to try hard to beat osage for footings :)

--- End quote ---

except when osage isn't easily obtainable.

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