I enjoy building cane or bamboo arrows fletched with wild turkey feathers I chop out. And they fly so nice...

These below are tonkin bamboo shafts.

Those look mighty nice RC! I've gotta try bamboo one of these days. Where'd you get the shafts? I really like the cut on your feathers. What chopper cuts those?

The shafts I got off ebay, they are about $25.00 a dozen.

They come already straightened and sealed, beautiful shafts.

The seller is oulaybamboo0618 on ebay, takes about 2 weeks to get them.

There will be many listings of different spines, just search through.

The chopper was a little chopper, shield cut.

I trimmed the front a little with scissors.

Nice looking arrows RC, bamboo shafts are pretty cool.

They look great! Do they come with all the knots smoothed out or did you have to do it? A friend made a dozen & they looked really nice but he had to do a lot of work. They were very strong but heavy compared to cedar. What spine are yours and how much do they weigh?

They come with the nodes sanded down and shaft is sealed.

Spine is 35 to 40, weigh 340 grains without points.

445 with 100 grain points and feathers.

RC, I bought a doz Tonkin and they were really nice and straight and were very closely matched in spine and weight, shot great also. The only draw back that I had with them was durability, seemed that they split easier than any of my other wood or cane shafts, maybe I was just to hard on them. Bob

GREAT LOOKING ARROWS! YOSE DOES GOOD WORK!

Bob, yer supposed to hit the target, not them trees and rocks:)

Thanks Batman..

I've found tonkin bamboo just the opposite. Very durable. The biggest drawback is the inconsistent diameter from shaft to shaft.IMO they're the best shafts for the money. There's a reason they're referred to as "nature's carbon". As far as weight they're perfect for hunting. With 160 gr broadhead my finished arrows (40-45# spine cut to 27" bop) are 510-540 grains out of my 49# selfbow. They're also very forgiving.

Bob ya got a PM.

RC... when I build my arras outta the dandy stuff you sent me I want to build a dozen with boo..gonna have to pic your brain (assuming you still have a brain) (;

Ronsplc has made bamboo arrows for several years now. Good shafts, he does all his shooting with them. He creates his own banana fletching with scissors and a template. 2117 aluminum arrows cut into tubes make great footing for them. We call them Special Armored Stumping Arrows. They take direct hits on tree trunks without breaking or splitting. Having said that, I’m finding the shelf life is limited. If an older shaft gets a glancing blow, like on a log or tree trunk, they’ll split from point to fletch. It doesn’t need to be a severe blow, either. Other than that, they’re excellent arrows.

No problem Macattack:)

I got a little smarts left, I just gotta look for it.

I love them too. The inconsistent diameter don't seem to bother them at all. I keep a couple size nocks and points of the same weights and just fit them as I go. I never bother to buy in quantity and sort them but you sure could. I like them with self nocks and turkey feathers also.>>>>-------> Ken

I meant to put a picture of a bouquet.>>>----> Ken

Don't ask how it did that or how to undo it. Tried 2 fletch also. Tried to show feather orientation at 1 and 7 but that is not to clear either. Archery is my thing not computers. 8^) >>>----> Ken

Nice, Ken.

^5

Strong work man. Good job. Those are sweet.

I have a question. Can I use plastic nocks and glue on broadheads? If I decided to fashion some of these.

Certainly. You just have to taper them like any woodie.>>--> Ken

Yup.

Thanks.

Some will poo poo this idea but what I do when I make up bamboo is glue a 2" length of bamboo skewer stick in each end of the shaft using titebond 3 as a glue. This beefs up the ends, allows me to make self nocks or taper the nock end and allows me to attach stone points using a larger glueing area at the point end. The inside of bamboo has a pithy substance and the skewer stick makes the ends more solid and stronger. JMHO

Adds very little weight.

Those arrows scream MOJO.

What is the thread used in wrapping the feathers?

Waste of perfectly good flyrod material...

Kidding aside, those look sharp!

(And yeah I realize that rods are built from much bigger culms. ;-) )

River cane is EVERYWHERE where I live. Kinda like bamboo xcept FREE! I wonder if I could shoot cane from my rd longbows and recurves? I don’t see why not.

Sawtooth, Just my personal opinion, cane is far superior to Tonkin Boo, but a lot more work than the sanded pre finished sorted by weight and spine Tonkins. Cane is tuff. Bob

Noted. Thanks!

Sawtooth, I shoot both equally well or in most cases equally bad, lol. I only work the cane for myself with stone points and snake skin crest.

I've known about cane for a long while now- just never fooled with any. It grows wild in the ditches- shame not to utilize it somehow.

The arrow with snake skin on it is cane. I turned some mesquite down for a nock on this arrow.

The business end of the cane arrow, second one up from the bottom.

Very nice, Jon.

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