split cane arrow shaft question.

[sleek]

So i am splitting some 7/16 thick wall thickness bamboo  and wondered if anyone has ever just split out a bamboo strip, rounded it and shot it for an arrow? Or can you laminate a bamboo arrow like the old fly rods?

[Dakota Kid]

 As far as using a split piece for an arrow, my uncle gave me a primitive x-bow from Vietnam that shoots bolts that are just splits of boo. They weren't even rounded. They fit into a groove along the top of the x-bow. Some even had a curve to them in order to shoot around corners I was told . It looked like the points were heat treated to harden the sharpened boo.

 I don't see why you couldn't laminate several layers and get a decent arrow. Were you talking flat laminates or the pentagon/hexagon shape? The latter might be something interesting. It would have to preform remarkably to make all the extra work worthwhile. 

[mullet]

yea, I saw some that were split and laminated, but with bamboo, not cane.

[Pappy]

I have one also from Vietnam Dakota Kid with boo splits and a somewhat hard leaf for fletching and a boo tub for the quiver. I am sure it can be done sleek, probably be pretty light I would guess.
 Pappy