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Offline yazoo

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Re: bending and straghting osage
« Reply #30 on: February 23, 2010, 04:23:05 pm »
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Offline sailordad

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Re: bending and straghting osage
« Reply #31 on: February 23, 2010, 07:10:24 pm »
Mike, you said that the bow should be near aor at fully tillered before recurving the tips.
wont this effect tiller?or are you only bending the non working section at the tips?
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Offline yazoo

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Re: bending and straghting osage
« Reply #32 on: February 23, 2010, 08:13:16 pm »
I am usually only bending the tips,,but It will probablly mess with tiller,, and may need some work after the recurves are put in,, but our main concern at that point is thinning the tips as near as possiable to finished thickness , to prevent cracking while we are bending tips,, the recurves may need to be tweeeked form side to side,,each one comes out alittle different,,once the limbs are recurved the hard part is over,,
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« Reply #33 on: February 24, 2010, 11:56:04 am »
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Offline yazoo

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Re: bending and straghting osage
« Reply #34 on: February 24, 2010, 12:00:44 pm »
above is the bow with both tips recurved and ready to turn in to a bow,, any questions anyone has I will try to answer ,,or anything else they would like to see, I will try my best  to explain,, I would like to see how everyone else does there straightening,,please feel free to add to this, all of us are capable of learning,  mike
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Offline Pat B

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Re: bending and straghting osage
« Reply #35 on: February 24, 2010, 02:44:59 pm »
Mike, here are a few of my forms and my straightening techniques.
The first pics is for flipped tips and not necessarily recurves.





The next are straightening out a crooked stave









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« Reply #36 on: February 24, 2010, 02:47:58 pm »
...and finally for adding reflex and tempering the belly







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Offline yazoo

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Re: bending and straghting osage
« Reply #37 on: February 24, 2010, 10:41:22 pm »
I have never tempered  the belly of a bow, how deep does the browned wood go in the belly,,I blew up another heat gun today,,next time I may get the insurance , just not tell them I run it 10hrs a day,,
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« Reply #38 on: February 25, 2010, 01:08:13 am »
The scorching only goes just below the surface but the hardening of the wood goes deeper. It is not as effective on osage as it is on whitewoods but you can still notice a difference.
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Re: bending and straghting osage
« Reply #39 on: February 25, 2010, 06:21:43 pm »
again, fantastic info here guys...thanks for putting this up
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« Reply #40 on: February 27, 2010, 11:22:48 am »
WOWed!
Another article for the folder.
Nice & thanks.
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Offline goearnhardt

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Re: bending and straghting osage
« Reply #41 on: February 28, 2010, 10:50:27 am »
thanks great info
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Offline riarcher

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Re: bending and straghting osage
« Reply #42 on: March 10, 2010, 02:02:10 am »
Well, I just applied Osage Bending 101.
I'll see if I graduated in the morning.
Already know it helped. Just not sure yet how much.
Heated with olive oil 1/2 after a preheat, let cool and repeated.
I'm fully expecting to need to repeat it again tomorrow.
A little concerned with too much too fast to be honest.
It went nicely so far though. (I think)
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