Spruce is becoming increasingly popular, especially among 3D archers. It is about 10% lighter than cedar shafts and roughly half the price!
In addition, spruce has excellent flight characteristics — thanks to its light weight, these shafts are much faster than heavier woods such as cedar and northern pine.
This advantage becomes particularly noticeable at longer distances.
Natural product
Since wood is a natural product, wooden shafts will differ slightly from one another — not in diameter (this is precisely manufactured) but in appearance and internal structure.
For example, not every shaft is perfectly straight, equally stiff, or exactly the same weight.
The spine value also varies, which is why wooden shafts are generally grouped and sorted in categories with a tolerance of 5 lbs.
To ensure as much uniformity as possible, all shafts are hand-spined, checked for cracks, and straightened by hand.
Custom spruce shafts
We supply shafts in full length, 32 inches. For many archers, this length is too long and the shaft will need to be shortened to the desired size.
We use a special cutting machine that allows millimetre-accurate trimming — guaranteeing shafts that are perfectly equal in length and cut straight.
Weight-sorted shafts
For even better shooting performance, we can, for a small additional fee, sort the shafts by weight within a tolerance of one gram or 0.5 gram.
We do this in groups of up to 12 shafts.
If you order more, we will divide them into groups where the weight differences are as small as possible.
Specifications – Spruce Wooden Shafts:
Size: 5/16 and 11/32
Length: 32 inches (full length)
Northern Pine is one of the oldest types of wood used for making arrows — its origins even date back to the Stone Age.
To this day, Northern Pine is widely used by archers because of its excellent balance between stability and weight.
Northern Pine is very robust and somewhat heavier than, for example, cedar, and it can be easily treated with stain or varnish.
Natural Product
Since wood is a natural product, wooden shafts will vary slightly from one another — not in diameter (as this is precisely manufactured),
but in external and internal characteristics.
For example, not every shaft is perfectly straight, equally stiff, or identical in weight.
The spine value also varies, which is why wooden shafts are generally classified and sorted in categories with a tolerance of 5 lbs.
To ensure as much uniformity as possible, all shafts are hand-spined, checked for cracks, and straightened by hand.
Northern Pine Shafts to Size
We supply shafts in full length, 32 inches. For many archers this length is too long, so the shaft will need to be shortened.
For a small additional fee, we can cut your shafts to the desired length.
We use a special cutting machine that allows millimetre-accurate trimming — guaranteeing shafts that are perfectly equal in length and straightly cut.
For even better shooting results, we can, for a small fee, sort the shafts by weight within a tolerance of one gram or 0.5 gram.
We do this in groups of up to 12 shafts.
If you order more, we will divide them into groups with weights as close together as possible.
Specifications – Northern Pine Shafts:
Size: 5/16 or 11/32
Length: 32 inches (full length)