Ramin Experts please

[Bjorn]

If one were to order 1000 5/16 dowels from say; Atlas Dowel Co. how many might spine at 70# and above?
Thank you for your kind indulgence.
Bjorn

[Frank AK]

almost none man

[Shaun]

3/8 ramin spines about 80# average. 5/15 spine about 50# average. Around 70% of them will be + - 5# the rest will be 10# or more off.

Doubt if any 5/16 will be as high as 70#.

[hormoan]

I did 500 most fall in the 40's very darn few in the 50's almost as many 30's as 40's. None above the 50's. And sort weighted them that will take up a day!

              Brent

[hormoan]

BTW I was not impressed by the runouts and corkscrews. If you want to shoot some good passthru shafts (RAMIN) Twigs archery compressed ramin shafts! Not as cheap then again ya get what ya pay for.

                         Brent

[dino]

I sat down and spined 100 5/16 ramin dowels yesterday.  From memory I had 2 spine in the 70# range, about 12 in 60# plus, 24 in the 30-40# range and the rest were split in the 40# to 59# range. dino

[Bjorn]

Thank you gentlemen I appreciate the responses.

[jacobsladder]

hey contact scattershot on birch dowels... YOu can get 100 for 25.00 from american wood crafters... he would know more about the spine.

[Danny Rowan]

Gee I must have been lucky. I have two doz arrows made from ramin and they are 5/16" and they are 80#.

Danny

[SCATTERSHOT]

Ramin is no longer being imported into the U.S. because of ecological concerns. Some may still be in the pipeline, but I understand when that's gone, it's gone.

I have used birch to  make arrows, and it works well. The heaviest 5/16" birch dowel I have seen was 55#. Most, as Hormaon said, run in the 40's.

The 3/8" birch runs pretty stiff. I recently spined 50 of them, and this is what I came up with:

68-1 70-1 73-2 75-3 76-2 79-1 81-1 84-1 87-7 90-2 93-4 96-7 98-1 100-5 104-8 108-3 130-1

By the way, just for grins I made up a shaft from a 108# dowel. At 32" with a 160 grain point and no finish or feathers, it weighed 775 grains!

[herb haines]

scatter shot
my arrows i shoot  from Ramin 3/8" dowel barrel tapered and ready to hunt with weigh well over 700+ grains .i like them heavy , i will never go back to POC  --- herb-- sure hope we can still get them only have 450 left

[SCATTERSHOT]

LOL, Herb. You're running low, for sure. Maybe it's just a U.S. thing?