Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: mullet on May 01, 2019, 12:52:27 pm
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Here's one that hasn't been asked; does anyone know where to get some bamboo shafts in the 40" range? I need some arrows for my 7' 6" Yumi bow. The ones I'm shooting now are over a hundred years old and I've broke one already. So, I want to make my own so I don't end up destroying the set. I don't think I can come by any now with Japanese Sea Eagle feathers.
I've found Tonkin on line but they are expensive and mismatched weights. I'm also looking for carbons in the same length.
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Garden center stakes? They come in 48".
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Contact Japp Koppedrayer at Yumi Bows, he sells the proper shafting that he grows himself. Be prepared to get off your wallet but his stuff is topnotch.
He used to set up booth at The Hill shoot and sell bows, bow building materials and shafting as well as give demonstrations on building and shooting a yumi bow complete with all the ritual.
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I've talked to Jaap on Facebook. been holding out looking for a cheaper alternative. I do have a place to buy arrows for $45 a piece. Jaap only lives a few hours from me and I might have to make a road trip and drop by and see him.
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Sounds wild ( but fishing rod blanks)?
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I order bamboo shafts from China. They are available in several different lengths. Excellent quality. I could PM you with their email address if you are interested.
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Eddie, I'd be happy to cut some hill cane for you if that would work.
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jimmi, if you would, please.
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you may not want cane but I have some dried that may work.
The raw shafts are slightly larger than 3/8" but less than 7/16"
The straightened shafts are 7/16" atlatl dart shafts.
These are ones I picked out that have a slow taper rate and are larger on the small end than the average piece of cane from round here so I they should be stiffer for longer length arrows.
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If you are willing to part with four or six of the straightened ones I'd be happy to trade something. I'm kind of experimentint to see what I can make work. It's hard for me to pay around $60 a piece for arrows.
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I got five in the pic and one broken atlatl dart that I could part with.
send me your address and I will send them to you
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Mullet: PM sent.
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Jimmi, haven't seen it yet.
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I have loads of dwarf bamboo we use for arrows here in Taiwan. Damn near invincible. The spine the aboriginals use here is very low. I do not have any lower spined shafts right now and hate trying to spine boo. It is a serious hassle, but I could ask some local guys if they've got any extra low spined shafts. We normally pick them in the late fall near the top of the front range of mountains. About 1km up. The higher stuff is better to a point. I have fields of them at my disposal, but it is always hard to know the spine before it dries. To be honest, I'd just as soon pay someone to do it for me. There was a guy on one of the FB primitive archery groups selling spined shafts. Seemed pretty reasonable.
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I made up some arrows with the bamboo shafts from China lately, they are just about like carbons in consistency but my 55-60 shafts were as little less than 5/16" on one end and almost exactly 5/16" on the other, the weights for a 28" arrow with a 125 gr tip was around 460 gr.
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I've used those Tonkin shafts from Tiger for several sets of arrows. The ones I'm shooting now in the Yumi are a lighter bamboo with 16 grain points.
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why is it so hard to spine cane or boo?
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Cane doesn't act like wood. Both static and dynamic spine are different for it. But that's about as far as I go, I group by weight and they shoot fine for me. Spine @28" means nothing to me at 36". Best to just sort by weight and be done.