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Knoll:
Anyone have experience using steam setup to straighten shoot or bamboo/cane shafts?

Skip ahead to 5:00 of this video to see fella using steam to straighten walking sticks.
tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRFdDWP_h1c

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DC:
I've never done it but my gut says an arrow shaft, being small, would loose heat so fast that you would get one end done and the rest would be too cold to bend. That said, for the initial roughing out I use my barbecue. I put the whole shaft in at 400° and wait about 30 seconds and then roughly straighten the whole shaft so it may not be that much different. I do still have to go back with a heat gun to get the little wiggles. I can see one advantage in that you could put a bunch of shafts in the steamer and they would all be ready to just quickly rough them all out. All my experiences are with bamboo shafts so that may make a difference.
If you've got all the stuff, steamer and tube etc, it would be worth trying.
Give it a shot and report back :)

Pat B:
I haven't found it necessary. I use our kitchen gas stove and hand straighten. For bad bends I use an arrow wrench.

Aaron H:
I do it all the time Mike.  Bamboo, shoot shafts, split shafts.
Works great.  I use a garment steamer and used to just kinda spot bend them, but I figured out recently that I could just stick the entire shaft into the steam hose for just a couple minutes, pull them out, and work most of the bends, if not all of it out in one shot.

Knoll:
I too wondered if relative small shaft dia would result on losing heat too quickly.

Very interesting, Aaron. Ya just use the hose that comes off the steamer? Yet another reason to setup steam rig!

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