Propeller twist black locust Bow

[Archeryrocks]

I have a black locust bow stave that I have held onto even though it was a bit twisted. I recently started to work on it and got the limbs brought down to about floor tiller stage and then put it in my vice and started to use a heat gun to remove the twist in the limbs. It seemed to work well, but then later when I started to work the bow again and try to get it bending the twist came right back. do I need to steam the whole bow? I've not really worked through this type of problem before? Thanks for any suggestions. I can try and get pictures later today when I'm not at work.

[Pat B]

Are you allowing the wood plenty of time to cool. I usually wait overnight but some just wait a few hours.

[DC]

It sounds like you removed the wood that you had heat treated. I've had to re heat wood because of this. If you don't heat something long(deep) enough it's just the outside wood holding it in position. When you scrape that off the limb goes back. Just do it again. I try to delay any heat treating until I'm closer to finished but sometimes it's hard to work around the twists and kinks.

[bubby]

Check out pearl drums new post, it has a bow twist solution for you

[Archeryrocks]

Check out pearl drums new post, it has a bow twist solution for you

it looks to me like he just left the bow with the twist my bow has about 30 degrees one direction on one limb and then 30 degrees the opposite direction on the other limb. would it hurt anything to leave the twist in the bow? there are few if any knots to really worry about.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Leave it be. If your grooves are deep enough and the string stays put, you're good to go. You wont ever feel it in the draw or shot.

[DC]

I read on here recently that just using the bow can take some twist out.

[George Tsoukalas]

I don't worry about twist until it approaches 30 degrees.
But here is how I remove it when I decide to.
http://traditionalarchery101.com/fixtwist.html
Jawge

[bubby]

Yeah pearls solution is just leave it be lol i just wanted you to realize you don't have to remove it

[BowEd]

Yes twists will come out on their own to.Shoot it a couple hours.Look down the limbs.

[Springbuck]

Leave it.....unless it just bugs you.  In wide-limbed bows, twist bugs me, but on most narrow and sapling bows I can leave it be.

If you want to take it out, BL responds to heat pretty well.  Work the bow down toward a good beginning thickness, say 5/8" or 3/4", whatever, then heat treat the whole thing, good and deep, leaving the whole thing clamped until well cooled and rest it a bit past that.