Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: jeffp51 on November 30, 2014, 01:58:17 pm
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Is steam or dry heat better for bending hickory recurves?
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Steam!
Use dry heat for flipping tips, for larger curves use steam.
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Yea for sure. Hickory definitely tends to crack with dry heat and any kind of dramatic bending.
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this will be for a child's bow, and I don't think I will put a lot of curve into it--just enough for show. The bow is 50 inches and I am aiming for about 15 lbs at 15 inches of draw. I will have to post the failure I had on his previous attempt soon.
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Steam is the best for hickory.
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steam it is, then. By the way, is there there a defined difference between flipped and recurved tips? Recurves come in static and bendy flavors if I am not mistaken. Are flipped tips just less severe?
Teach me.
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Flipped tips is a term for very tiny recurves. They usually only occupy the last 2" on the limb tip and only add around an inch of set beck. Can't decide if I help pioneer the term around 10 years ago or not. ::)
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Steam or boil if the bend is much at all. 15 degrees over 6" and a 3/8" thick limb on a kid's bow, I could do with dry heat.
I thought I helped pioneer the term about 10 years ago! ;) JK. I consider it any super low angle recurves, like 6'' or 4'', but only moved foreward an inch or so.
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Here's some...
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/wakolbinger/IMG_48271.jpg)
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On a recurve the string rides on the curve until the bow is drawn(string contact). On flipped tips only a slight amount of reflex is added to the tips and the string usually doesn't make contact below the nock.