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bending and straghting osage

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Pat B:
Mike, here are a few of my forms and my straightening techniques.
The first pics is for flipped tips and not necessarily recurves.





The next are straightening out a crooked stave

Pat B:
...and finally for adding reflex and tempering the belly

yazoo:
I have never tempered  the belly of a bow, how deep does the browned wood go in the belly,,I blew up another heat gun today,,next time I may get the insurance , just not tell them I run it 10hrs a day,,

Pat B:
The scorching only goes just below the surface but the hardening of the wood goes deeper. It is not as effective on osage as it is on whitewoods but you can still notice a difference.

mastin03:
again, fantastic info here guys...thanks for putting this up

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