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Cane nodes...reduce or not?
mullet:
Same as Hillbilly, I don't like bumps.
cowboy:
same here - haven't done that many. But get em pretty straight then use the fine side of a rasp to take most the node off then sand smooth. I splintered a couple on rocks there Greg but think it had more to do with the foreshafts not footed properly - well come to think of it, I know that was the problem.
wolfsire:
From my limited experience and reading, leave them alone if you reasonably can, or to the extent that you reasonably can. It depends and what you have, the quality of arrows you are making and the risk of breakage because you are weakening the nodes when you mess with them. I am slowing working may way through a bag of tomato stakes I found in the garbage. Only one was flat and smooth enough to leave untouched. Most needed just light sanding to remove sharp edges and slight bumps. Some needed more. Only one arrow has been completed and it does fine with smooth low bumps. I test fired a second before flecting and on the second shot it broke at a node.
Hillbilly:
I don't know anything about store-bought tomato stakes. I'm referring to native river, switch, or hill cane. I have found the same process to be true with Japanese arrow bamboo and Sasa bamboo shafts. Haven't tried the mater stakes, though.
Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive:
i leave them along unless they are real big, they dont bother me in the least, and they all fly perfect..in fact better than my doweled arrows- Ryan
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