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Offline artcher1

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Re: Question on bending hickory
« Reply #15 on: February 25, 2009, 01:32:32 pm »
Just make sure your wood is plenty dry before heat treating your work Steve. This could take several days after steaming or boiling. With the spray bottle deal just the outer surfaces get steamed and dries almost immediately afterwards. Heat away!

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Re: Question on bending hickory
« Reply #16 on: February 25, 2009, 01:55:42 pm »
What Art said about setting the bends with dry heat sounds like it makes alot of sense. That might have stopped my bends from relaxing out. Lucky for me mine was a board bow so I just made a tapered underlay which I glued between the belly and hickory backing to stiffen the cracked area. I'm half tillered now, so far no problems.
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