<P>I am new to the cane arrow making venture, so be gentle with me....<IMG src="http://www.websitetoolbox.com/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" align=absMiddle border=0>. What glues have you found to work best to attach flecthing, points, dowell inserts and nock inserts when makeing cane arrows?? And I am sure these would not be the same glue for everything.</P>
<P> Well I would like to know the answer as well. I am workin some cane arrows up right now (My first). I used some Titebond III to glue the nock and foreshaft in them. Not holdin as well as I would like at all. Had a few break loose with a little pressure. </P>
I do my cane all natural therefore I only use hide glue..but any glue will work..titebond or super glue..but I like a slow setting glue where I can adjust my foreshaft to get proper alignment and spin..I don't plug cane...nevr have never will..I like to use the hide glue also so all I have to do to replace a foreshaft is soak in water...www.gutstuff.com..you can view my cane arrows there...gut<br>
<P>I found that if you sand the rind on the bamboo with 150 grit titebond 2 and titebond 3 work really well for fletching on bamboo ( Tonkin cane to be exact. Tonkin cane seemed to work very well. </P>
stringstretcher Wrote:<P>I am new to the cane arrow making venture, so be gentle with me....<IMG src="http://www.websitetoolbox.com/images/boards/smilies/smile.gif" align=absMiddle border=0>. What glues have you found to work best to attach flecthing, points, dowell inserts and nock inserts when makeing cane arrows?? And I am sure these would not be the same glue for everything.</P><P>
</P>I know the feeling about wanting gentleness. I have been trying the cane arrow thing for awhile now, and I cannot seem to get mine even close to straight. I bought some Titebond for the inserts, but I am not anywhere close to that point. Keep us posted as to your progress. Perhaps I can learn along with you.<BR>Dan<BR>
I like cane but do not feel the need to keep it all original. Fletch tape for fletching followed by a wrap of silk or sinew thread. Self nocks with hardwood dowl filler in the center held in with TBll and thread or sinew wrap reinforcing. Have not used forshafts, just filled the front end with dowl and then tapered for modern point or notched for stone point. Stone points attached with 5 min epoxy and sinew or dental floss.<br><br>Straightening cane is time consuming. My method is to use heat and go through a set of shafts making ONE correction per shaft and letting them cool till they come around in order again. That is ONE straighten at a node, then cool. After all the nodes are straight, I start with the internode areas.<br>
Shaun the best way to straighten cane is start at one end and work your way down...you are wasting to much time and heat doing it by nodes and then in between nodes..trust me..try it my way you will see...gut..<img src="http://www.websitetoolbox.com/images/boards/smilies/biggrin.gif" align="absmiddle" border="0">