Heat Treat / Steaming Recurves

[Will B]

I just finished heat treating an Osage stave using vegetable oil and my heat gun to get the limbs to line up. After cooling, is it ok for me to steam in my mild recurves or should I wait for a period of time. I appreciate your advice.

[DC]

I'm not much of an Osage user but I'd go ahead. If anything the moisture will rehydrate (there's a can of worms) the wood. Watch your string alignment doesn't go west.

[Will B]

Thanks DC

[PEARL DRUMS]

Go for it, wont hurt a thing.

[Will B]

Thanks PD. I’m gonna start on it now

[bjrogg]

I'd agree. I have half a caul. I usually steam in my recurve one limb at a time. While that limb is on the half caul I straighten and heat treat it.
Bjrogg

[Eric Krewson]

I would have put the curves in first and then aligned the limbs and the tips. Curving has a way of shifting things one way or another.

[DC]

I would have put the curves in first and then aligned the limbs and the tips. Curving has a way of shifting things one way or another.

Yup

[bownarra]

I would have put the curves in first and then aligned the limbs and the tips. Curving has a way of shifting things one way or another.

Double yup.

Also any corrections that get heated again will 'undo'.

[Will B]

I will remember that. Thanks for all your thoughts!