I am thinking about trying some surewood shafts and have a couple questions.
1: Will the spine needed be the same as my POC's
2: How much more (if any) do they weigh per in. then POC's
3: How durable are they compared to POC's I know the weak point is right at the back of the point but is the surewoods tougher or about the same?

My normal setup is 29.5" BOP 68-73# splined with 125gr head

Same spine, heavier for sure and a lot tougher. And the quality is far superior. Good cedars are rarely available. These Surewoods are as straight as the old cedars.

Yeah!

QuoteOriginally posted by Onehair:
Same spine, heavier for sure and a lot tougher. And the quality is far superior. Good cedars are rarely available. These Surewoods are as straight as the old cedars.

Yes Sir !!

They are very good wood shafts and make great arrows.

Can you get them by the single doz.? Can you get them
tapered from surewood?

3Feathers,
You can definitely by them by the dozen from Braveheart Archery (TradGang sponsor with great service). Somebody else will need to let you know about the tapering. I'm not sure about that.
Great shafts indeed.

Cut to u'r length and perfectly tapered if u wish.
Can be light, med or heavy mass weight for the spine u choose & matched, or can be got from the grab box. Of the impression these fellas are archers and have found a job to fit their lifestyle. Even when sealed POC has not maintained integrity in the tropics and becomes noodley after a few years. I am of the notion Fir will last the duration, time will tell so will comment then.

Surewoods THE BOMB!  Same spine.  Lots tuffer...no good smell though,  argh!  Impressively straight!
Last I knew,   they will not taper for you.  Youd have to knock that one out yourself.
Super nice guys to deal with!  Reminds me,  I'll be getting a couple more dozen!  Take stain and show CRAZY GRAIN!  GRIND THE TAPERS THOUGH!  Too brittle for the pencil sharpener type!  Unless you dont mind chuncks and splinters underneath poor nock fits and wobbley point fits!

surewoods have become my fave woodie.  exceptionally straight and Tough.  i have 4 dozen fletched or ready for fletching and another 3 dozen raw shafts waiting in the wings ...  

You can send them to several places for tapering: Raptor Archery and the Feathered Shaft are two examples.

Surewood does not taper. But if you contact Dave Doran at Archery-Past.net he does an AWESOME job of it. He is in Oregon too.

Dave sells the Surewood shafts. They are weight matched too.

Gotta looooove Oregon!    

I won't shoot cedars again as long as I can get Doug Fir from Surewood. I live only a couple of minutes from their shop!   :D

As far as the weak point being behind the point, well, that may be so, but I know for sure from experience that no carbon can take the punishment we give our Surewood Shafts when shooting termite mounds. Maybe a 2419 could hack the pace, but maybe not, too.

U'r right, from my correspondence with them. "All of our shafts are sold parallel, but we do have a dealer of ours who tapers shafts if you are interested." They also suggested the nock and point be ground rather than pencil sharpener type I had. They took it up. End result was 10" back taper, nocks n points done to a T and cut to my length. Again completely happy with their arrangements and advice.

I have a lot of different woods and I just did 2 dozen SW's and I gotta say they are great looken shafts,I love the grain. And the hand taper tool will work but does chew the taper a little due to the hardwood.Best money you can spend.

You May want to check the Feathered Shaft, I beileve he will taper raw shafts for you to finish.

He is a sponsor as well.

I will be getting some Surewood shafts I was going to order some but I found out their about ten miles away from my Dad's house, so when I go for a visit in March Dad and me will take a little side to Surewood.