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Offline DuBois

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Speckled alder any good for arrows?
« on: January 19, 2017, 06:56:49 pm »
Speckled alder any good for arrows?
I harvested a couple dozen and then thought I better ask. (usually how I do things  :-\)
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Speckled alder any good for arrows?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2017, 07:31:51 pm »
Don't know about speckled alder. We have tag alder here and I think it it would be pretty flimsy and shafts would have to be pretty big to get heavy enough spine.
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Re: Speckled alder any good for arrows?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2017, 10:17:19 pm »
try it, please let us know how it performs-
we have red alder here- might be worth trying it someday!
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Offline Bryce

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Re: Speckled alder any good for arrows?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2017, 01:57:17 pm »
Our red alder tends to be brittle.
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Re: Speckled alder any good for arrows?
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2017, 08:10:22 pm »
I'll keep em and see what they are like.
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