I got some cane from someones yard, and got it all dried out in my car trunk. I guess I came out with about 50 some pieces, though thatll probably go down due to splitting and breaking during straightening. I have multiple bows, so the weak shafts can go to my lower weight bow.
I just wanted them good enough to take shots at squirrels or whatever when theres a good chance of losing an arrow. My equipment is limited so they arent really weight, spine, or length matched, and I didnt want to put too much time into them.
And my straightening skills arent up to par yet, so that coupled with the bulges between nodes resulted in just somewhat straight arrows.
I followed some cane build alongs here on tradgang, drilling the larger end to take a 1/4" oak dowel, and the nock end to fit a poplar dowel to keep back end weight down. Some have larger back ends, so I have glued in some old 1/4" carbon arrow nocks in those.
Right now Im just making fluflus, 5" x 3 straight fletch and 5" x 2 180° spiral wrap fletchs. I wanted to go primitive my first go, so when I get a fletching jig I will hopefully appreciate it more. So i just unraveled some waxed nylon thread and used individual strands to tie on the feathers, with some Duco at each end of the feathers, on the knots, and each thread "bridge" between the feathers.