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Offline srt

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bamboo arrows?
« on: January 20, 2009, 01:36:16 pm »
anyone ever tried these for arrows (or atlatl darts)?

http://bamboosupply.net/listman/listings/l0015.html

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Offline TRACY

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Re: bamboo arrows?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2009, 01:53:05 pm »
I bought a bale of 500 from A.M. Leonard http://www.amleo.com/index/item.cgi?cmd=view&Words=n36 and have straightened and fletched them with good results.

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Offline Mechslasher

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Re: bamboo arrows?
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2009, 02:50:22 pm »
that's where i buy my bundles.  it's tonkin cane and makes some good arrows.  the only thing i dislike about tonkin is that it has been over dried and can be brittle at the nodes during the straightening process.
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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2009, 03:04:10 pm »
 Yep, steve. Right down the road from my house.
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Offline srt

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Re: bamboo arrows?
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2009, 05:19:49 pm »
Yep, steve. Right down the road from my house.

sweet!! you wanna go hand pick a bundle for me?  :P

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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: bamboo arrows?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2009, 05:41:29 pm »
ive bought gardening stakes home depot,just kinda eyeball the thickness,$3.00 got me 8 nice shafts
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« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2009, 06:12:20 pm »
 srt, the 8 to 10 mm x 4' is what you want. I'll be glad to pick it out for you, I'll even pick through the bundle and take out all the bad ones, you know, save you some shipping weight. ;D ;)
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Re: bamboo arrows?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2009, 07:15:50 pm »
srt, the 8 to 10 mm x 4' is what you want. I'll be glad to pick it out for you, I'll even pick through the bundle and take out all the bad ones, you know, save you some shipping weight. ;D ;)

Now thats putting the fox in charge of the hen house ;) :D
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