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Offline dogleg

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First set of shafts (help?)
« on: October 08, 2009, 11:22:56 pm »
I'm sure this is probably on here, somewhere, but I get lost with all the good info.

I just cut eight water-shoots off a friend's lilac bushes, to use as my first set of primitive arrows.  They range from just over 3/8" to about 3/4" in diameter.  Can some one tell me if I can plane these down to the correct size, and just what would you guys recomend as an abd-123 drying procedure?  Any help is appreciated.

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Offline Pat B

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Re: First set of shafts (help?)
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2009, 11:48:40 pm »
DogLeg, I haven't used lilac but with other shoot shafts that I have used I've had to plane them down to the proper diameter or spine. I use a simple, cheap thumb plane from Ace Hdwre
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Offline DanaM

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Re: First set of shafts (help?)
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2009, 07:51:31 am »
Lilac will check while drying so I would leave the bark on and bundle them up to dry. After drying there should be no problem planing them down to size.
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