Brandywine Traditional Arrows

Sitka Spruce, pound for pound, is the strongest wood in the world. Sitka grows in a 60 mile strip along the coast from Northern California to Alaska. Our wood comes from Alaska, where colder slower growth make the best locality for fine, even grained Sitka Spruce. We air dry the wood so as to retain all of its excellent properties and not set up the stresses and loss of ductility that a kiln produces. Sitka is used today in kit plane wing spars, sailboat masts and spars,and just about anywhere a high strength to weight ratio is needed. It also has good tonal qualitys and is used in most acoustical guiter tops and piano sound board. Sitka was used to build airpanes in w.w.1 and Howard Hughes built the Spruce Goose out of sitka spruce. Sitka spruce gets its strength from a very long fiber which makes it difficult to mill and machine, sharper tools are needed. Some characteristics of Sitka Spruce from the grading and dressing rule 16 and the export R list grade rules are:

1. Extemely resilient.
2. Highest strength to weight ratio of any wood.
3. Tough-even grained and soft textured.
4. Demostrates little tendency to split or splinter.
5. Dries easily-stays in place.
6. Unusual shock absorbing qualities.
7. Able to withstand sharp impact and suddenly applied loads.