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Offline Wooden Spring

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Arrow material?
« on: June 10, 2014, 08:45:36 am »
OK, I'm sure this is posted elsewhere, but I don't have time this morning to search...

I just made some poplar shafts last night at 11/32" diameter, hoping they would turn out like my 3Rivers arrows of the same diameter, spined at 45-50#... They weren't even close. My 11/32" shafts were spined at 34-35# straight out of my shaft making jig.

OK, so I'm thinking I need a more dense wood.

What is an ideal wood that is dense enough to give me comparable spine weights? I love my 3Rivers arrows, but at $10 a piece, I can't afford to keep purchasing them!
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Offline autologus

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Re: Arrow material?
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2014, 09:59:03 am »
I like tonkin bamboo or river cane.  There is a great how too as a sticky in this forum on using tonkin bamboo tomato stakes for arrow shafting and they work very well and are as tough as carbon.

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Offline Pat B

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Re: Arrow material?
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2014, 10:19:43 am »
Send Charlie Jefferson(stringstretcher) a PM. He turns out some very nice poplar shafting in most mid range spines. I have some I shoot from my 55#@26" bows.
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Offline RBLusthaus

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Re: Arrow material?
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2014, 11:54:05 am »
I make poplar arrows with a range of spine from 35 to 70 pound.  Each board is different - - so shafts get matched up by weight and spine - - - but must be dried like any other wood (prior to cutting shafts).

Russ
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2014, 12:17:35 pm »
Sounds like you need to turn a bunch out and just separate them until you get an adequate amount of a given spine. 
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Offline Jim Davis

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Re: Arrow material?
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2014, 10:48:21 pm »
Douglas fir, spruce or yellow pine--usually available at lumber yards.

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