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Straightening new shoot shafts
Pat B:
Great info, ED. Thanks for posting it. :OK
BowEd:
--- Quote from: Fox on April 15, 2022, 11:36:54 am ---Thanks for this thread bow Ed! I’m working on getting enough shafts together so I don’t have to buy arrows this fall
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I'm with ya on that way of thinking.
--- Quote from: Pat B on April 15, 2022, 02:54:50 pm ---Great info, ED. Thanks for posting it. :OK
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You bet.
BowEd:
Here's an example of the type of bushes I harvest my dogwood shoots from.Not the best picture.I guess you could call these red twig dogwood but I believe there are other types of dogwoods growing around here.The gray and the flowering dogwood also.It grows wild in the ditches around here.
From one like this I might get 1 shoot that suits what I want.
Then it's on to look at other clumps of dogwoods somewhere else to accumulate enough of them.
I went and put together another group of seven to straighten and dry.
I had a new spare picture of the deer around here this spring on the camera too.There actually is around a dozen there but only a half dozen visible in the picture.There is some remnants of red clover where they are now.They love that early stuff.Some fawns will be dropped soon.Within a month.It's a quiet time of year for these deer.
BowEd:
These two 7 shaft bundles are now very straight after around 2 weeks of straightening.I will leave them to dry down now for around 6 months or so.I like to leave a little tab of the zip tie available to grab yet to tighten with the pliers as the weeks go on here.They will shrink in diameter and I want the ties to stay very tight on them as they cure.You can see a little how the bark is beginning to shrivel and shrink already.
It will not take much heat correction at all after they are cured to get end to end perfectly straight shoot shafts now.Untill then.....
BowEd:
An example of how straight these shafts will be before minor heat corrections.These have been curing for almost a year.
The bark will be removed.I use my pocket knife or a sanding block.Minor heat corections done.Then spined.Usually over spined at this stage.Then reduced to the spine I require.
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