If folks got some of the same maple I tried, I know why you can hardly find them anymore! [:@] I only tried them once, after hearing about how tough they were. Mine were about as brittle as dry spaghetti and super slow to recover from paradox. I even broke a few in a soft foam block I was using for bare-shafting. Never tried them again.

From what I have found out since then, it seems I just got some really crappy shafting (grain looked fine though). Don't know if it was just bad wood, too dry, or what--honestly though, I don't think it would take a whole lot of folks shooting some of those to shut it down.

Chad