sealing a new stave

[okiecountryboy]

Okie, thanks. I don't know about the zen stuff. LOL.  I learned to make bows from Bob Holzhauser. He was the best osage bowyer I've seen work. His philosophy, and now mine, is to only heat to get the string on the handle and that's about it or may be heat to even off a situation where one limb is reflexed and one is not. He always claimed he learned from an old Indian in PA. I pretty much "listen" to the wood and let it "tell" me  what it wants rather than beating it into submission which never worked for me. Of course, the wood does not talk but the signs are there to see if you can read the grain. Jawge

Jawge
The wood does'nt talk?!? 
OK back to the medication.....