straightening twisted staves

[nickf]

anybody who found some good ways of doing this? giving it a try soon, so I'm interested in how you do this, and if you have any recommendations/advice.

thanking in advance,

Nick

[cowboy]

Been awhile since I touched any wood but was getting kinda partial to steaming the section to bend then clamping it and with a pair of welding gloves start twisting by hand - that was working good for the helical. If it's near bow deminsions and green I clamp it to a form to dry. And dry heat for small finish up areas.

[Aries]

Ive used cowboys method it works pretty good. Also another good way would to be to steam( Or if its osage use a heat gun with some crisco ) to heat up the wood (all the way to the center of the wood) and then clamp it to a flat surface.  Or if you had a recurve/reflex jig or somethin rigged up already you could kill two birds with one stone and clamp it to the jig to remove the twist and get your curve   Ty