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Offline huntertrapper

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bamboo arra
« on: November 28, 2007, 11:45:04 pm »
anyone ever make arrows out of bamboo any pictures would be good and how to do it. thanks
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Offline Pat B

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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2007, 11:51:04 pm »
HT, lots of boo arrows made by folks here. Do you have a particular bamboo that you have available to you? Where do you live?     Pat
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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2007, 09:53:32 am »
Here's a good tutorial for cane arrows, it's pretty much the same process with other bamboos: http://groups.msn.com/ferretsarcherywebpage/rivercanearrows.msnw
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Offline huntertrapper

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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2007, 08:59:42 pm »
I live in the Penns woods. pennsylvania. the boo i can get grows by an old pond.
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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2007, 09:12:12 pm »
That pictorial by Mickey is a good one - show's you pretty much all you need to know. I have learned something else on here about the spine from Eddie (mullet). After you have your shafts to length and straightened, put one end on a low table with other end on the floor - with your palm against it midway roll it untill you find the stiff side - this side should slide against the bow when you shoot. Hope I understood that right :).
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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2007, 03:33:33 am »
I live over in Waco, TX anyone know of any good cane or bamboo in this area??
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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2007, 01:36:46 pm »
Hey Joe, I have been keeping my eyes open for something good around TX  for awhile now. Their are two that I've found - one won't work (the consesus was that it was Phragmites reed) the other I don't know what it is but looks like bamboo - my brother brought up a sample of something he found down along the coast. May be switch cane, I'll post some pic's when I get some - see if we can ID it..
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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2007, 05:59:51 pm »
Sounds good to me!
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Offline 1/2primitive

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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2007, 12:27:18 am »
Here are a couple of my bamboo arrows. Bamboo makes a very nice, very tough arrow. It's my favorite!  :)
You've gotten a link to a very informative website.

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n236/Thebowguy/000_0031_00.jpg

     Sean
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  • Paul Wolfe. Springtown, TX
Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2007, 12:39:33 am »
Sean, them look good man!! We're gonna have to meet up one of these days. Maybe we'll all get something going here in North TX soon.......
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Offline 1/2primitive

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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2007, 10:48:21 pm »
Thanks,
and I hope so.......
     Sean
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Offline PeteC

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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2007, 10:15:33 pm »
Joewaco,you ought to be able to find some rivercane growing in the brazos system,or it's tributaries.I find it spottily in the Neches,Angelina, and Sabine drainages,enough to build a few arrows anyway.Success in finding some, God Bless,  PeteC
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Offline huntertrapper

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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #12 on: December 16, 2007, 10:37:12 pm »
yeah real nice arrows sean
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Offline 1/2primitive

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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2007, 08:07:45 pm »
Gee, thanks y'all.  ;D
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Offline IONIAN

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Re: bamboo arra
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2007, 12:36:41 am »
   Tonkin cane, 640 grains +/- 5.

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