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Primitive Skills / Re: stinky gelatin/hide glue
« Last post by WhistlingBadger on November 26, 2025, 12:32:34 am »Good to know, guys. Thanks.

My original curiosity was more about whether Osage benefitted from doing the same type of heat treating/fire hardening as is done with hickory - as an example. Sounds like it can - but needs to be done more carefully than other woods if I'm understanding correctly?
Not sure what you mean by "fire hardening". Heat-treating is essentially the fire hardening of wood. If not done properly though "heat-treating" can be nothing more than changing the surface wood's structure and that really does nothing for a bow. Proper heat-treating of a bow is a process that takes several hours to do. Osage and BL certainly benefit from heat-treating but they react a bit differently to heat and you have to keep a close watch on what's happening with the wood, I suspect it may have something to do with the oils in the wood"Fire Hardened"
