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Anyone have experience making arrows from oak dowel?

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I tried it once. Seemed a bit stiff which could be due to that particular batch. I built a batch of 6, and 2 of them broke after an hour of practice.

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You need to find good straight dowels without runouts. Then oak dowels can be good arrow wood. I've used a couple of them, and they work fine, but straight dowels without runouts aren't very easy to...

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Ramin are good too. 5/16. I take 30 out of the bin and walk over to the drill bit section and use the drill bit size guage to get uniform diameter.Then I hand spine to find 12 similer.When I get home...

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Yo can sand the middle a bit to bring the spine down. Jawgehttp://mysite.verizon.net/georgeandjoni

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thanks for the info I bought a doz that looked good I'll give them a try.Greg

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