Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: zenmonkeyman on January 26, 2010, 03:20:28 pm
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I heat treated the other day, and weighed out afterwards to establish an over-dry benchmark. The problem is, 2 days on the weight hasn't come back up, in fact it seems to have dropped another 20th of an ounce. Is there a problem here with dry winter air preventing rehydration? Anybody else experience this? The only other thing I can think of is it wasn't as dry to start with as I thought, and it's at equilibrium now.
Is it safe to start pulling this thing again?
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What's the wood? Jawge
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Thanks for taking an interest, Jawge! It's chokecherry. Pretty dense stuff, measured at .78, so it's probably around .75SG at least over all.
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I really like your approach here, but let's think about this a second. For example: If the overall bow weighs 21 oz. at 10% moisture content and you just lost 1/20th of an ounce due to tempering that would only drop the moisture content of your bow by a factor of 1% of the total weight. That to me would be hard to quantify using a scale without a high degree of accuracy. Giving the belly time to normalize after heating is more important than trying to calculate its total weight, IMO. I would follow the prescribed time allowances given based on recommendations from proven experience. You don't want to hear mine, I use Hickory.
Disclaimer:
All math done with my shoes off....
Greg
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Thanks Greg, that's pretty much what I was hoping to hear back.
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I follow Marc's method.(3 days to re-hydrate),and it has always worked for me. God Bless