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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: srt on January 20, 2009, 01:36:16 pm

Title: bamboo arrows?
Post by: srt on January 20, 2009, 01:36:16 pm

anyone ever tried these for arrows (or atlatl darts)?

http://bamboosupply.net/listman/listings/l0015.html

steve   

Title: Re: bamboo arrows?
Post by: TRACY on January 20, 2009, 01:53:05 pm

I bought a bale of 500 from A.M. Leonard http://www.amleo.com/index/item.cgi?cmd=view&Words=n36 and have straightened and fletched them with good results.

Tracy

Title: Re: bamboo arrows?
Post by: Mechslasher on January 21, 2009, 02:50:22 pm

that's where i buy my bundles.  it's tonkin cane and makes some good arrows.  the only thing i dislike about tonkin is that it has been over dried and can be brittle at the nodes during the straightening process.

Title: Re: bamboo arrows?
Post by: mullet on January 21, 2009, 03:04:10 pm

 Yep, steve. Right down the road from my house.

Title: Re: bamboo arrows?
Post by: srt on January 23, 2009, 05:19:49 pm

Quote from: mullet on January 21, 2009, 03:04:10 pm

Yep, steve. Right down the road from my house.

sweet!! you wanna go hand pick a bundle for me?  :P

steve

Title: Re: bamboo arrows?
Post by: Stixnstones on February 19, 2009, 05:41:29 pm

ive bought gardening stakes home depot,just kinda eyeball the thickness,$3.00 got me 8 nice shafts

Title: Re: bamboo arrows?
Post by: mullet on February 19, 2009, 06:12:20 pm

 srt, the 8 to 10 mm x 4' is what you want. I'll be glad to pick it out for you, I'll even pick through the bundle and take out all the bad ones, you know, save you some shipping weight. ;D ;)

Title: Re: bamboo arrows?
Post by: DanaM on February 19, 2009, 07:15:50 pm

Quote from: mullet on February 19, 2009, 06:12:20 pm

srt, the 8 to 10 mm x 4' is what you want. I'll be glad to pick it out for you, I'll even pick through the bundle and take out all the bad ones, you know, save you some shipping weight. ;D ;)

Now thats putting the fox in charge of the hen house ;) :D