Solid Fiberglass shafts question.

[Curtiss Cardinal]

Does anyone know if and how soild fiberglass shafts can be straightened? Or do you just have to go through 100s of shafts for the straightest you can find? I wanted to make up a half dozen Monty Browning type arrows just because. I need more info first however.

[dino]

I remember talking to a guy one time who was shooting them and he just went thru batches of them to find straight ones.  Don't know if there is a good way to straighten them. dino

[macbow]

I do a lot of bowfishing and I've never heard of straightening them. If you get with a dealer like Sully's bowfishing stuff he might get you enough straight ones.

A few years ago Monty was the key note speaker for our UBM festival. He said he had swithced to carbon arrows with #12 copper wire inside. The copper had the plastic on the stranded wire.
This gave him the weight he needed and was almost industructable.
Ron

[ROB TAYLOR]

I always wondered if those four foot long driveway marker poles they sell at Lowe's would do the trick?
-Rob

[Tom Leemans]

Well Rob, it looks like you just volunteered to be the research engineer on this one!

[inrut]

Rob,
I made several fish arrows out of those driveway markers this spring. I liked the bright colors. Most of them I got were really straight. I ground the nock tapers with my Woodchuck! They should work great!

[Bowspirit]

Rob, my experiances have been the same as inrut. You just have to be sure to always, ALWAYS, check for straightness...they sure make for tough shafts though...