Bingo!!!! Thanks Hillbilly, that is exactly what I was talking about! I wonder how they would be with a taper? Ionian, those are what I have been thinking about doing for quite some time, but never had the material, or work area, and tools to do it. So you just used bamboo flooring huh? Cool! I was just asking in the article on Sasafras bows, if anyone had ever made arrows, using bamboo, and cutting triangular strips, and gluing them together like the bamboo fly rods. Oh, yeah, seek, and ye shall find!
Yepher, I too wait with worms on my tongue, (baited breath) to see how they turn out, and any trials and tribulations you may go through. I will make some when I can get a small band saw, and some room in my garage, before I move to Montana, after I retire, at the end of May. I have always wondered about bamboo arrows when I saw my first bamboo fly rod, and saw an article on how they were made. You guys have just made my night! Now I can go to bed, and sleep, with visions of me sanding a batch of hexogonal shafts, and rounding them . They would look nice with a nice horn insert, or horn nock with insert. Man now you have me all fired up. I have to work tomorrow, and I don't know how much sleep I will get now. Thanks again, and please, give us the full details on your experience with them. Take care, and have a Happy. P.S. OOOOHHH, I just had a flash of me going down to get a box of flooring, and making not only arrows, but a nice bamboo fly rod! Hah! Who woulda thunk it!
Stickbender.