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davidjw:
This has been seasoning for about 9 months, thought I might take a crack at it.  Still needs some diagonal sinew wraps at the kasan eye area.  I think I will put some more sinew on the edges too, as it's a little convex on the back.  After tillering I will cover the belly in sinew. Seems like all that will be a bit easier once it's opened up a bit.

I suppose I just do all corrections by heating the sal with the asa geese in place, as the kasan eye area is totally inflexible?

mikekeswick:
That looks like a fun tillering project! I would not heat the sals (when bent) as it will lead to set there. With any luck you won't need to correct anything! Of course you can use the tillering stick to see where the twist is , remove, then heat the sals to remove any twist that may be there.
Good luck!

BowEd:
Good looking project.Hopefully everything is close enough to being in line when prying it apart.One thing at a time.

davidjw:
After a formidable wrestling match using both feet and both hands I was able to get her open.  Sitting on a line of red ants outside didn't help.   Looks pretty good for twist, a little in one limb.  Good idea on fixing the twist, thanks Mike! But to correct the imbalance I think I would need to heat it with the stick in place?  I can't imagine that I won't need to lose some of the reflex to heat before the tepeliks?

davidjw:
Correction, I will correct the imbalance the way one is suppose to, a bit of scraping and flexing. 

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