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.