Help tuning cane arrows

[perry f.]

I'm laid up for a while and I have some river cane. Gonna try my hand at making a few arrows for rabbit and squirrel hunting. Wondered how hard it was to get them to fly good. Thanks!

[Pat B]

Cane arrows are very forgiving and generally fly well without much fuss. Start by getting them straight and they don't have to be all that straight to fly well.
  I build cane and hardwood shoot arrows one at a time. Try that. Once straight taper the point end and add a field point and see if it spins true. I spin my arrows on the tip of my finger so I can feel any wabble. Being that the shaft is irregular an arrow spinner doesn't work well.
  Next, find the stiff side of the shaft and set up the nock so the stiff side is against the bow. Now fletch it and shoot it. It should fly well or relatively so. If not, flip it over so the cock feather is in against the bow and shoot again. That should do it for you.  If for some reason it still doesn't fly well, remove the fletch and add a spiral fluflu. It should work well for that!

[sweeney3]

Put on points and fletching and go shoot.  They are very, very easy to work with.  Much easier to tune than any other material/shaft that I have used.  Of course, you pay for in the time and effort to put them together.  Good trade though.  You might want to match them fairly close in physical weight.  I shoot for getting them within say 30-40 grains.  I can't shoot the difference in that inside twenty yards anyway.  You can use longer or shorter foreshafts of different foreshaft woods and lighter or heavier points to get the weights to match.