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Yeah, it was meant for lee. I think Japanese arrow bamboo is called "Bambusa Japonica", or something like that. Pat B would be the man ask about that. Just ask if they have any Japanese arrow bamboo, or Tonkin bamboo, and tell them what you want it for, then even if they know it by another name, they will get the general idea, and if they have any boo that fits that description, then you can check it out. Yeah, get with some others who want to make their own arrows, and get the info from Mullet, and order a batch of five hundred. Sorry, about the price, I guess the $75.00 was the total of shipping included. Or it might be more, depending on where you are. Or...... just order it for yourself, and you will have all the arrow shaft material you need, for quite awhile, or trade material.
Not to mention tomato stakes, material for making fish traps, ........
, and errant child training aides.
Anyway, that stuff is GREAT! Like Eddie said when you finish it, it looks like carbon, and shoots like it, and is almost indestructible, as an arrow. It will take a lot of punishment!
After I sand it down after I have finished straightening it, and putting in the nock, I just stick a small nail, or bamboo skewer, or dowel, in one end, and tie a string to it, and hang it up, and use a can of spray lacquer on it, and it dries pretty quick, and then I lightly sand it, with 0000 steel wool, and put another coat on it, and when that dries, I repeat the 0000 steel wool, but very lightly, and it is ready for fletching, and a point.
You can stain it, if you want, before spraying it with the lacquer. Like I said, when I go back to Florida, and I am going to go over to Lakeland, and try to get Eddie to take me to the place where they sell it, and get the guy to sort them for me. I will bring them back out here. He has dealt with them before, and the guy knows what he wants them for.
Good luck with whatever you decide. But I think once you make a couple arrows out of the Tonkin, you will be hooked!
Wayne
