wood Shafting

[Jim Wright]

I have commented on a few posts here about how hard anything even close to good Cedar is to find but Rod Kelley of Mountaintop Traditional Arrows, Kalispell, MT. (406) 756-5885 is fast making a liar of me. I just received a dozen 67-72 spine, 437 to 446 grains beautiful and STRAIGHT Cedar shafts. If this were a one time thing I would not mention it but this is the third dozen like this I have gotten from Rod in the last year, the only difference was the first 2 dozen were 60-65 spine and 10 grains heavier. Heavy, straight Cedar - I'm impressed! What I judged them against were the latest excellent Douglas Fir I received from the guys at Surewood, it's nice to get dozens of shafts and every one of them top notch.

[arrow flynn]

i wonder where he gets them? thanx for the info

[snag]

Almost all the port orford cedar today is coming out of Rose City's shop. They sell to other distributors. It may be that Rod is just taking the premiums, picking through a lot of shafts to get the best and then selling the rest as "stumpers", or that he has a supply of the old ACME shafts still.
With Surewood Shafts on the market I still see no real reason for going to cedar. The Surewoods are a tougher shaft and are usually going to be a little heavier than cedar. I really think Surewoods are the standard that all others are compared to nowadays.

[Jim Wright]

David, I did not mean to imply that I was going to Cedars over Douglas Fir. I will happily shoot both and posted the thread primarily because Rod Kelley has some really fine Cedar which lots of guys still prefer to shoot and I have found hard to come by.

[30coupe]

Originally posted by snag:
Almost all the port orford cedar today is coming out of Rose City's shop. They sell to other distributors. It may be that Rod is just taking the premiums, picking through a lot of shafts to get the best and then selling the rest as "stumpers", or that he has a supply of the old ACME shafts still.
With Surewood Shafts on the market I still see no real reason for going to cedar. The Surewoods are a tougher shaft and are usually going to be a little heavier than cedar. I really think Surewoods are the standard that all others are compared to nowadays.

Well, I happen to think cedar smells better.    

[snag]

Yep, if you could put that old cedar smell in the air while tapering doug fir it would be perfect! haha
I have since found out there are two other makers of cedar shafts today besides Rose City. I think I'll call Rod and see which one he uses.