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Information and Resources => Trading Post => Topic started by: stringstretcher on February 25, 2013, 08:31:36 am

Title: bamboo at the classic
Post by: stringstretcher on February 25, 2013, 08:31:36 am

There will be some bamboo at the classic this year for arrows. ;)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e369/STRINGSTRETCHER/2013%20trade%20bow/Cane012_zpsf83e5423.jpg)
(http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e369/STRINGSTRETCHER/2013%20trade%20bow/Cane011_zps45836ff9.jpg)

Title: Re: bamboo at the classic
Post by: MWirwicki on February 25, 2013, 01:55:10 pm

Not enough E's in Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Title: Re: bamboo at the classic
Post by: stringstretcher on February 25, 2013, 03:04:20 pm

Thanks Matt.  I am sure there are several in here with your name on them, just got to find them... ;)

Title: Re: bamboo at the classic
Post by: osagejack on February 27, 2013, 01:41:54 pm

what type of cane are those,, the type of cane here in tn the only cane with sheaths that long are first year shoots,,and the cane is not fully formed ,do they seem limber or fairly stiff,,

Title: Re: bamboo at the classic
Post by: Matt G. on February 27, 2013, 08:59:56 pm

That is Japanese arrow bamboo.

Title: Re: bamboo at the classic
Post by: PrimitiveTim on February 27, 2013, 10:32:33 pm

It looks exactly like the stuff I gather and someone else said mine was japanese arrow bamboo.  I'm curing some first year shoots and they seem about as rigid as the older stuff.

Title: Re: bamboo at the classic
Post by: stringstretcher on February 28, 2013, 06:43:46 am

Yes this is Japanese Arrow Bamboo.  And this bamboo does not loose it sheaths like river/switch cane does.  When you see the green of the bamboo pulling away or growing up from the sheaths, it is second year growth.  I have some marked that are now 4 year old stuff with the sheaths still on them.  Where as Japanese arrow bamboo has about an 8 year cycle, river/switch/hill cane runs on a three year.