the big poll - join in, pick yer fave flavor(s) - up to 3 - and make 'em the top choice of trad gangers! there are other woods, for sure, but this list oughta do fairly well ... :thumbsup:
207 voters ...
1st - poc
2nd - doug fir
3rd - sitka spruce
4th - bamboo/cane
Nice poll :thumbsup:
Hey Rob what catagory would Don Stokes' Magnolia shafts be under?
beats me, never heard of using magnolia for arrows - or juniper or mulberry or sassafras or ..... :D
hindsight sez i shudda stuck in an "other" ;)
Ahh. no Ramin wood.
Bamboo :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I like god cedar, DF, and SS can be good too! Any of you ever had a good purple heart shaft/arrow? I have one and it is spectacular and probably 1000 grains, not sure, my scale doesn't go that high!
From the choices you posted I would choose cane first, ash(full taper) second and viburnum shoot 3rd.
My first choice for arrows is sourwood shoots but they would have been under "other".
Bamboo #1 Cedar #2
Super cedars by Dan Quillan were excellent shafts, compressed magnolia I believe. Can't find 'em in the pine I need so my choices were doug fir, sitka spruce and p.o. cedar.
awesome hi grade sitka grows all around me- so sitka is my choice- i have my own shaft jig.
I chose doug fir as my number 1 choice and sitka spruce as my #2 and chundoo as my 3rd. I have made arrows of a lot of the choices listed and never really cared for cedars unless they were cedarsmith cedars. Doug fir cause it has all the best propreties that wood should have, it is tough, easy to keep straight and makes a fairly heavy arrow. I like chundoo cause it stays straight and is fairly tough but hard to find it that is matched in weight real well. Spruce makes for a nice lighter arrow and I always liked it for 3D and its flat trajectory and you could get it matched well in less than 10 grains per dozen. The best arrows I ever had and still have a dozen or so were made by HotHap from right here on TG and they were cedarsmith cedars and I have never had better qaulity or prettier arrow ever! Shawn
1. POC (when I can find some "GOOD" shafts...)
2. Douglas Fir (when I can't find "good" POC, DF would have been #1 but the quality of the last several dozen I've recieved was not up to the norm. Weight match was really poor)
3. Sitka Spruce (when I want a light, tough arrow)
Dougie Fir, Sitka Spruce, and cedar for me. :readit: I just started shooting some Maple Arrows 1/4 away sent me. I'll tell you what I'm really starting to like these arrows. IMHO they could be better than Sitka Spruce and cedar.
My choices were Ash, Poc, and Bamboo in that order. Ash to me is one of the best arrow woods I have used. It is durable and usually makes a great hunting arrow. Poc second just cause its cedar, and bamboo as it makes a really straight shaft for primitive arrows.
Loved the old Cedarsmith compressed POC's.
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I've only ever used P.O. cedar, D. fir, Ramin and Poplar. Soo many still to try; but I'm happy with the fir for certain.
(Ramin gets a thumbs down from my results).
1. Douglas Fir
2. POC
3. Hickory
:thumbsup:
I only had two choices, POC and doug fir. Don't have any experience with most of the others. I think the poll leans toward those two because they are the most readily available. I can by POC easily and hand plane doug fir from Home Depot.
Hatrick, one of our sponsors here, North American Specialty Gear has lots of compressed cedars.
I really like the spruce.
I shoot a lighter bow..45#.
I get tapered spruce.
It lets me get a tough shaft that's light.
That way I can have a heavy point, more foc and not be way heavy in overall wt.
QuoteOriginally posted by Zradix:
I really like the spruce.
I shoot a lighter bow..45#.
I get tapered spruce.
It lets me get a tough shaft that's light.
That way I can have a heavy point, more foc and not be way heavy in overall wt.
+1 ... i totally agree.
QuoteOriginally posted by Hatrick:
Loved the old Cedarsmith compressed POC's.
Some of the best Cedars I ever had as well. Still have four dozen stashed that I got from Kerry just before he sold the business.
Really like the Surewood shafts but hard for me to buy more shafting when I have several hundred cedars ready to taper and build.
cedar flies great (light and fast), but I prefer an arrow that can bounce off trees and stumps and keep on shooting, so ash is my favorite. You almost can't break the stuff. Almost.
Once you learn how to "make" good bamboo/cane arrows, everything else just kinda doesn't please you any more.
Ash, Maple and Cedar.
I am working on a boo arrow.. Taking my time so I don't mess it up...
"Once you learn how to "make" good bamboo/cane arrows, everything else just kinda doesn't please you any more."
Any links on how to do that? Thanks.
QuoteOriginally posted by Ryan M:
"Once you learn how to "make" good bamboo/cane arrows, everything else just kinda doesn't please you any more."
Any links on how to do that? Thanks.
i get to type this at least once a day ...
check the 'how to -resources' forum
Chundoo for me.