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TRACY:
I was looking around the internet and found several articles on straightening cane. Many talked about soaking seasoned(dried) in water for 12-24 hours and then using dry heat to straighten between the nodes and then alternating every other node to straighten the nodes. In my limited experience of straightening cane, I've just used dry heat between the nodes and so on with the nodes alternating. Does soaking the cane make it any easier to straighten? Is this a method that is better for atlatl darts only?

Thanks Tracy

Hillbilly:
I don't see why you would need to soak it, I've made probably a couple hundred cane arrows, just use dry heat and it bends like butter. If I work to get materials dry, I don't really want to wet them again, especially when there isn't any need to. best sequence I have found is to straighten the sections between the nodes first, treating each one individually, then bend the nodes to line the sections up straight. I usually alternate from one end of the shaft to the other as I'm straightening to give the last bend a chance to cool down. I do exactly the same when making atlatl darts from bigger pieces. Seems like some folks just try really hard to overcomplicate things. :)

Pat B:
I do similar to Steve.    Pat

Papa Matt:
Sounds like it would be for Atlatl darts only, if that. Maybe it's helpful with atlatl darts because of their larger thickness, that they would be more difficult to straighten.

~~Papa Matt

JackCrafty:
Some people just like to soak things...I guess. ???

You get the same results using steam (and much faster).  But all that is unnecessary. As Hillbilly said, dry heat (on dry cane) works fine.

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