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Kegan:
I made some for ash boards, red oak, and aromatic cedar, in both cases I ripped them out to slightly larger than 3/8" and planed/sanded them down by hand. Bad idea. Cut them to 3/8" squares, then do jsut as Pat said.

I've also used the method you're refering too. Hard, dry woods don't work well with that method. I could do it with wet hickory, but dry oak and I'd be going nowhere. Hand planing 3/8" squares is easier suprisingly, at least for me.

TreyNC:
Pat, I am outside of Boone. I do have some river cane dried right now, but it aint straight at all, not like I was expecting when just looking at it. I got that near Asheville before moving up in elevation. There is some river cane up here but not much. How difficult is cane to straighten?

Hillbilly:
Trey, cane bends like butter with a little heat. After getting the hang of it, you can straighten a shaft in five minutes or so-and unlike wood, it will stay straight. Cane is the primo arrow material. As for the boards, I've made some good arrows by ripping them into 3/8" squares and hand planing them. Just try to keep the grain straight with no runouts.

Pat B:
Trey, What you have is probably hill cane(Arundinaria appalaciana), a newly designated native American bamboo. That is what I have growing here along my driveway and it makes excellent arrows.   Pat

TreyNC:
How do you deal with the nodes, I guess sand them down but not completely. I can't wait to try it this week end. Do you guys use a hard wood plug in the ends?

I just keep hearing that one thing I was told years ago "any idiot can make bows, but arrows are art". Well I'm still and idiot trying to make bows.

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