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GregB:
I've been straightening some tonkin cane down in my basement the last few days...late start at getting some arrows for hunting season. Yesterday I was working on the third one of the afternoon and it was a booger! It had more nodes then most of the others and was pretty curvey. I had spent a lot more time on it then normal and was thinking..."be my luck that I'll break it when almost finished". Well, while on the last node I felt it give although it didn't come apart in two pieces in my hand I knew it was a goner. Went ahead and snapped it into and called it an evening!

I've been using my heat gun on this batch, where last year I used a one burner stove. I like the heat gun much better...just lightly clamp it in a vise.

DanaM:
I do the same with the heat gun Greg, I also cull shafts like that right from the get go, no sense wasting time on them eh :)

recurve shooter:
i had a few like that. man there is ALOT of time that go's into makeing these suckers, but man i love doing it.  ;D

Hillbilly:
Greg, tonkin is harder to straighten than most cane, seems like, a bit more brittle. I use the heat-gun-in-a-vise method a lot for straightening shafts, too.

Josh:
Huh... Never thought about using my vice OR my heat gun...  Usually use a lit can of Sterno cooking fuel and just sit outside and hand straighten them over the open flame.  That's with river cane though never straightened tonkin before... 

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