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Fire hardening vs heat gun tempering

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Allyn T:
From what I've seen they don't toast it over the coals until after they have dried it out over a fire. I'm sure you could dry it over a fire and then use a heat gun to temper the belly in just as short a time period.

bassman211:
Try that out , and post the results. I am really curious about that.

superdav95:
I’d be curious about that too actually.  The closest I’ve done to that was a partial cook over coals when I got rained out one time and had to finish up in my shop with heat gun. I had gotten to the point about an hour and half into it and hadn’t started browning much really.  It worked fine too and still have one of those bows and it shoots good. 

bassman211:
Your still using the first faze of the fire hardening  process which means you don't have to  wait a year, or 2 to use the wood, and worry about bugs, or applying  shellac on the  the back of the stave, and storing it properly to protect against checks, and you can take the bark off with fingers. All of which can be problematic when preparing staves. You just cut the hickory tree, and make the bow.

TimBo:
So bassman, are you saying you can easily debark a winter-harvested hickory stave after the first stage of fire hardening?  Sorry for my ignorance - I haven't looked into fire hardening at all - but that would definitely be reason enough for me to do it.  (Although now I make sure to harvest hickory in the summer!)

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