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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: madcrow on January 31, 2013, 09:59:41 pm

Title: Fast drying shafts
Post by: madcrow on January 31, 2013, 09:59:41 pm

I was on my sister in laws driveway a little over a week ago and saw some very straight chinese privet.  i cut a half dozen shafts and debarked them that night.  I picked them up last night thinking I would flex and give them a straightening.  Not.  There was no flex.  They are drier than some poplar I have in the shop that I cut six months ago.  Just a few days and old and they are ready to make shafts.  It just seems odd that they would dry so fast.

Title: Re: Fast drying shafts
Post by: Pat B on February 01, 2013, 12:57:49 am

Give them the time to season properly and you won't regret it. These will probably be unstable if you make arrows now.
 Privet makes hard, heavy arrows but they will check if you strip the bark too soon.  At least they did for me.