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Heat Treated Hickory
OldBow:
Great Tiller! Bookmarked, too, for June Self Bow of the Month
1/2primitive:
Very nice bow. Good job.
Sean
Kegan:
--- Quote from: nugget on June 10, 2007, 10:44:25 am ---Always experiment, but if it works dontmess with it. You did good work there. Would like to hear more about heat treating???? Never done it.
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Thanks everyone ;D! The limbs are symetrical, but I try to tiller it so the top limb to bend slightly more than the bottom (seems to work well, and all my symetrically tillered bows have a tendacy to have the bottom limbs bend more after a while and such).
As for the heat treating, it's like sinew for the belly :)- it seems to help remove moisture just from the outside of the belly, helping compression, and giving it more snap or helps deter set- as far as I can tell. i thin this is what's happening, or as far as it was told to me. Used my father's heat gun to do the belly while tillering, as it made the limbs stiffer than the other. Really helps hickory, and would probably help any wood that's only so-so in compression I think :) (gotta try it).
jpitts:
Great looking bow. Gotta get me one of those heat guns....
nugget:
Thanks for the info. I once was told about heating the belly and hanging a weight off the end s to give it some backset. Heat about the last 6 to 8 inches and hang a weight off the tip. Then use a ruler or something to keep track of the bend . then repeat on other limb. I reckon a 5 or 10 pound weight would work. Not sure. ??
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