A few weeks ago when I was down in Aiken, I spent the day with Benjy. We played with those cane arrows and I was mighty impressed. I've shot all kinds of arrows mainly now just carbons. But these Tonkins are really cool. Out of the four foot piece of cane you can usually get 2-3 different spine stiffness. Plus with the pith hollow center, Bengy was adding sections of copper wire to fine tune the FOC weight and soften a too stiff shaft.
Bengy was kind enough to make me four arrows that flew great from my 50# Pronghorn. They are absolutely beautiful when sanded down with the bamboo fibers showing.
What I found interesting was we (Benjy) made up a raw cane arrow with the rough irregular nodes. It flew just as good as the the other shafts. Well that did it for me. I have a box of Tonkin on order and decided this years Bear Quest was to be an all Bamboo Bear
Back to the pith hollow center, it will work perfectly to attach a Team Tippit post broadhead right down the pith :eek:
Benjy, Thanks for a great day...Doc
This years Bamboo Bear Hunting Outfit:
1) Bamboo backed selfbow
2) Benjy Tonkin arrows...bottom arrow with banana turkey feathers is unfinished tonkin shaft.
Options for the sharp end:
Team Tippit post broadhead
Or Team Woody knapped head