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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: TacticalFate on May 25, 2013, 07:27:48 pm

Title: How do you get that golden bamboo color on cane arrows?
Post by: TacticalFate on May 25, 2013, 07:27:48 pm

I cut some Japanese arrow bamboo three months ago, stuck the culms in a warm room, and they're still pretty green (light green). I notice that most of the cane arrows posted to this site are that typical bamboo golden color, and I was wondering how that color was gotten. Is it sun, heat, or just a process of time?

Title: Re: How do you get that golden bamboo color on cane arrows?
Post by: mullet on May 25, 2013, 10:28:37 pm

Stick it out in the sun for a few days, it will turn nice and Golden. I'm doing it with some right now.

Title: Re: How do you get that golden bamboo color on cane arrows?
Post by: CherokeeKC on May 25, 2013, 10:49:54 pm

Yeh I have had some cane drying for at least 2 years now and they are still light green though fully dry.  I need to do the same.  Mullet do I need to worry about them cracking at all?  Also I am guessing you need to turn them over after awhile?

Title: Re: How do you get that golden bamboo color on cane arrows?
Post by: stringstretcher on May 26, 2013, 07:13:12 am

Putting them in the sun after they have dried will not crack them.  If you put them in the sun when they are green, they will crack every time.

Title: Re: How do you get that golden bamboo color on cane arrows?
Post by: mullet on May 26, 2013, 02:06:44 pm

 I have mine bundled together and on the corrugated metal roof of my shop. It's in the ninety's here and they were slightly green when I put them up there. I've never had them crack. I've got some that have been laying on the ground for three weeks that were green and they are fine. I tie full length pieces together for trellis' in my garden when they are green.

Title: Re: How do you get that golden bamboo color on cane arrows?
Post by: crooketarrow on May 26, 2013, 02:21:13 pm

  There just not seasoned. Let time so it's thing.

Title: Re: How do you get that golden bamboo color on cane arrows?
Post by: stringstretcher on May 26, 2013, 05:01:10 pm

Must be that Florida Sun Eddie.  We don't get that here....lol

Title: Re: How do you get that golden bamboo color on cane arrows?
Post by: mullet on May 26, 2013, 11:20:24 pm

We have it all of the time, Charlie ;).