Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: icu812 on January 07, 2015, 09:19:09 pm
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This is gonna be a little lengthy but I wanna paint an accurate picture. Does anyone recognize this wood? I found half a dozen of these 5/16 dowel rods at a craft store after sorting through a hundred or so. For 5/16 they are STIFF.
The grain is very hard to read so I applied a light mahogany stain. You can clearly see a lighter colored line that runs the entire lenght of the shaft on both sides. I haven't spined them yet (recently moved and still getting set up) but they are equal to or stronger than my 11/32 and 23/64 cedars and poplars that spine 55-60.
I'm up to speed on grain, etc, etc and have made some great sets of arrows from carefully selected dowels. Im just a little nervous because 1) I've never turned my own or bought 5/16 wooden arrows. I've only turned 11/32, 23/64, and 3/8 and 2) I cant read the grain on these!
The only thing I can think of is ramin? But I'm doubtful because I have some 3/8 Ramin right next to them that should be much heavier and stiffer for their size if they were the same wood. I snapped a few pictures while rotating the shafts. Any ideas?
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It looks like hickory to me
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That would explain the stiffness! I turned a half dozen Hickory shafts in 23/64 once and they spined over 100#. I'll go with hickory unless someone else chimes in.
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If they are generic dowels they could be Ramin. I think if they were hickory they would have been labeled as such.
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Pat B,
In their dowel selection I could easily recognize the poplar, ramin (at least the larger ones 3/8+), and oak. Then there were these mystery 5/16 dowels. All species and all sizes were labeled "WOODIES" with a bar code and no other information. Weird, I know.
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Does it say where they are made? Probably in the Philippians or other tropical country. It might be hard to know what wood it is.
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Yeah. Made in Malaysia
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Luan??
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Teak ???? It looks like the same wood used to make the wooden dummie at my old kung fu class when i studied wing chun . It was teak wood.