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Shooter_G22:
has anybody tried to use a 5/16 "  oak dowel for an arrow shaft i made one for sh!ts and giggles just to see how it would turn out i havent dhot it yet i havn't even tiped it yet... but at .82 cents a dowel @ the lowes i thought it would be a decent price to buy some and play around with them i only bought one and i also bought a poplar dowle @ .75 cents
will these dowels work for arrow shafts???

i dont have any way to spine test them i havent got a spine tester yet... fairly new to making my own arrows...   just wondering if these dowels would even be worth the money and time to try out???

any help or comments and or advice appr...

thanks...

madcrow:
I have made a few from the 5/16 poplar dowels and they shoot pretty good off a 60# osage bow, but I picked through the whole stack and got the stiffest dowels I could find.  Most will only make it to 35 to 40 pounds.  I buy the 3/8 oak dowels and barrel taper them to 50# and they work great.  Imake them 11/32 in the front and 5/16 in the back, and do the final adjusting in the middle which usually ends up around 23/64.

Pappy:
They should be fine if you pick through them and make sure they don't have much
grain run off.Some of my hunting arrows are Hickory dowels.I had to fool with the length
and tip weight to make them fly but after doing that they did fine. :) and chep to boot,
thats always a good thing. :)
   Pappy

rkeltner:
dowels from lowe's work just fine, but you've got be real selective about it! i went in and sorted through the entire batch of 5/16 dowels to sort anything with grain runoffs, then pulled out my scale and sorted by grain weight. all said and, i got 15 dowels of reasonably straight grain, + or -- 10 gr. poplar shafts that i paid a total of 7$ for. an added plus was the strange looks i got while i was weighing the shafts!!!

ahawi stick:
I have used the 5/16 oak dowels from Lowe's to make some very nice arrows for low poundage bows (my sons),like has already been said be selective when picking through the dowels and they will work just fine.

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