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Poplar shaft straightening

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Pat B:
If you are careful, you should be able to heat them enough to straighten them without effecting the finish...if you are careful! ;D  If you screw up the finish just sand them and refinish or use them for stumpers.    Pat

DSwankster:
Took me multiple straightenings with steam to get 3 Rivers poplar straight.  I was disappointed with the quality.  I found better poplar shafts elsewhere.

armymedic.2:
Thank you to all who responded, i finally got to it last night and went to straightening with heat.  It worked well.  They are not perfectly striaght because of lacking skill, but they are much better, and should shoot well enough now.  I also just finished 6 of them with white feathers wrapped with black thread, and the self nock reinforcment is red thread.  Very beautiful.  I am going to put the handle wrap on my 2nd attempt at a bow (hickory with a bamboo back, with a mahogany handle and rest), so i will post pictures of them together as soon as the leather comes.  Thanks for all the help. ;)

jamie:
aside from the initial straightening of shoot shafts i always straighten my shafts by hand and have never had a problem. i just put the outside bend in the thumb pad and apply pressure . peace

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