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Craftsmanship => Traditional Archery and Accoutrements => Topic started by: Steve-ALA on March 29, 2009, 02:22:56 PM

Title: Does anyone know........
Post by: Steve-ALA on March 29, 2009, 02:22:56 PM

Does anyone here know of a source for larch shafts?

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Post by: Fletcher on March 29, 2009, 02:38:58 PM

Try the primitive and traditional archery forums.  They have been discussed they but seems they are not commercially abundant.

I am going to try to make some Lodgepole Pine (Chundo) and Western Larch (Tamarack) myself this summer.  I will cut 3/8" square stock on my bandsaw from some seasoned 36" log cuts I have.  Then I will shave them on my Veritas dowel tool that I recenty got.  Then  I will  burnish them smooth on the burnish/compressor blocks that I just had made.

I expect the first good dozen to come out costing me no more than $10 per shaft!!!  Maybe after that I can get the process down to marketable.

Both are good arrow woods, but kind of spendy and hard to find.