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Hats off to you for all the work to show us your craft. I already have some Hdepot stakes, but will have to get some bananas!
-------------------- The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever-Isaiah 40:8 Posts: 120 | From: Buffalo, Wy | Registered: Feb 2005
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Get yourself some bamboo shafts from TIGER. Everything is done for you and they already come spined. The price is well within reason for a 100 pack. Remember: 1 out of 20 bamboo shoots is selected to become an arrow shaft by them. That is a lot of bamboo! It is not worth it doing it by yourself, although it is easy.
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quote:Originally posted by tecum-tha: Get yourself some bamboo shafts from TIGER. Everything is done for you and they already come spined. The price is well within reason for a 100 pack. Remember: 1 out of 20 bamboo shoots is selected to become an arrow shaft by them. That is a lot of bamboo! It is not worth it doing it by yourself, although it is easy.
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many years ago I copied a diagram for a low tech spine tester designed by Eldon Bingham. It was essentially the same as the 2 nails in the fence except it used a 30" span and a 3 pound weight.
Here are the listed deflections for various weights. the measurments are from one 5# step to the next starting at level. -9/16=75#, -1/16=70#, -3/32=65#, -3/32=60#, -3/32=55#, -3/32= 50#, -1/8=45#, -5/32=40#, -5/32=35# I hope this helps some of you who dont have an arrow to compare with
God Bless, Buck
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I agree with tecum-tha about the quality of tigers shafts(chinese guy who sells shafts on **** and through archery venders) But I really like the do it yourself know how of this demo. If ya got the time I bet you could come up with a set of shooting arrows real cheap. might be my next project. I've done this but without knowing spine. thanks for teaching me something
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Great thread, tenbrook. Good luck with the surgery. Hope it goes well. I've got a couple dozen river cane that've been drying in the attic since early August. Now I know how to turn'em into arras! Posts: 1610 | From: El Dorado, Arkansas | Registered: Jan 2010
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Hope the surgery goes well and that you have a quick recovery. And many thanks for the tutorial! Learned a lot and decided to try it out for myself.
I think I used too much heat to straighten the nodes since they came out a bit too burned looking. I tried steaming them, but that didn't work at all, so used a hand-torch. Just have to remember to keep the shaft a bit more away from the torch's flame next time.
I used a field point instead of the nail since I can't find my angle grinder to grind the end into a point. Also used some left-over scrap fletching from my feather chopper and turned them into short flu flus. The Duco didn't stick too well, so I wrapped them with some synthetic sinew. Here are a few pics thanks to this thread:
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Since the shafts are hollow has anybody ever tried gluing an Insert in the shaft?
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