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Offline Woodely

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Wood prep
« on: April 09, 2019, 02:10:31 pm »
What can you use to clean oily woods besides Acetone. 

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Offline Jakesnyder

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Re: Wood prep
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2019, 02:41:40 pm »
Dawn dishsoap is what I've always used
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Wood prep
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2019, 03:03:01 pm »
When I do sinew backed bows I use Dawn dish soap, scrub with warm water and rinse with boiling water. If you are just gluing a wood back to the bow I just give both glue surfaces a good sanding brush off the dust and butter both surfaces with glue.
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Wood prep
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2019, 06:19:11 am »
Back when I thought it was necessary I used a dilute lye solution on osage. After reading the Dean Torges writings on the subject and his finding that it wasn't necessary on American woods I quit degreasing 20 years ago and haven't had a failure since. I do tooth the glue surface for backing and sinew.
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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: Wood prep
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2019, 06:22:21 am »
We did all of our very early bows the same with lye.  That was just accepted as necessary.
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