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Offline zenmonkeyman

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Heat-treat/Dry Climate/Rehydrate?
« on: January 26, 2010, 03:20:28 pm »
I heat treated the other day, and weighed out afterwards to establish an over-dry benchmark.  The problem is, 2 days on the weight hasn't come back up, in fact it seems to have dropped another 20th of an ounce.  Is there a problem here with dry winter air preventing rehydration?  Anybody else experience this?  The only other thing I can think of is it wasn't as dry to start with as I thought, and it's at equilibrium now.

Is it safe to start pulling this thing again?
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Heat-treat/Dry Climate/Rehydrate?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2010, 03:48:31 pm »
What's the wood? Jawge
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Offline zenmonkeyman

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Re: Heat-treat/Dry Climate/Rehydrate?
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2010, 03:59:16 pm »
Thanks for taking an interest, Jawge!  It's chokecherry.  Pretty dense stuff, measured at .78, so it's probably around .75SG at least over all.
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Offline gmc

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Re: Heat-treat/Dry Climate/Rehydrate?
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2010, 08:11:10 pm »
I really like your approach here, but let's think about this a second. For example: If the overall bow weighs 21 oz. at 10% moisture content and you just lost 1/20th of an ounce due to tempering that would only drop the moisture content of your bow by a factor of 1% of the total weight. That to me would be hard to quantify using a scale without a high degree of accuracy. Giving the belly time to normalize after heating is more important than trying to calculate its total weight, IMO. I would follow the prescribed time allowances given based on recommendations from proven experience. You don't want to hear mine, I use Hickory.

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All math done with my shoes off....

Greg
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Offline zenmonkeyman

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Re: Heat-treat/Dry Climate/Rehydrate?
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2010, 08:21:51 pm »
Thanks Greg,  that's pretty much what I was hoping to hear back.
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Offline PeteC

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Re: Heat-treat/Dry Climate/Rehydrate?
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2010, 10:46:05 pm »
I follow Marc's method.(3 days to re-hydrate),and it has always worked for me. God Bless
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