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Taking a twist out of Elm stave with a heat gun??

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Pat B:
The heat from the boiling water just poured over it won't penetrate enough to matter. If you steam it for 15 minutes to a half hour the heat will get down into the wood. For adjustments like you want to do I use dry heat with oil unless I'm also tempering the belly.

SpringyWoodPassion:
And when you're tempering the belly you don't use oil? Just the heat gun?

George Tsoukalas:
I don't do recurves or forms. I read this method somewhere. It works  for straight limbs.

http://traditionalarchery101.com/fixtwist.html

Jawge

George Tsoukalas:
I apply oil to the belly only. I am of Greek ancestry so I use olive oil. :)

Make sure the wood is dry or it will check...not that you think it's dry but dry.

I use a moisture meter through the bow making process.

Jawge

Pat B:
No oil when tempering, only dry heat and enough to scorch the belly wood. You never want to scorch the back.
Here is how I do it. There are pics in my "New Bow Started" thread on pg 4 or 5 I think.

 "Yeah, at least the way I do it. Elm doesn't seem to darken much doing it this way.
I hand hold the heat gun about 1" above the belly and move it back and forth over a 6" area. When it darkens I move out to the next 6" heating until it darkens but also go back over the previous 6" then on out the limb and keep coming back over the previous heated sections. I do this with the limb held in reflex."

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