Belly Tempering ?

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Again, sorry but I forgot 

Is Red Oak a good candidate for belly tempering ?

How about Vine Maple ?

Thanks

[PatM]

It's not a good candidate but I seem to remember you doing it successfully anyway.
 

[bubby]

It helps all the white woods

[Carson (CMB)]

Vine maple is a great candidate for belly tempering. It is so strong in tension, it cant hurt to beef up the compression.

I don't have any experience with red oak.

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

It's not a good candidate but I seem to remember you doing it successfully anyway.

I don't remember making a tempered red oak,I know I made a bamboo backed red oak,...but who knows 

Ok than, I'll temper the Vine maple as I try to deflex the limbs and leave the Red Oak alone 

[bradsmith2010]

I dont think it would hurt to try it

[PatM]

Pics are mostly gone but..
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,6246.0.html

[Gordon]

Vine maple is a good candidate for belly tempering unless it already has a lot of reflex - then I do not recommend it.

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Pics are mostly gone but..
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,6246.0.html

Forgot about belly tempering that bow, was this the one ?

http://s34.photobucket.com/user/NorthShoreLB/library/Tiger%20Oak?sort=3&page=1


 picked it up a couple years ago and lifted a splinter as I was shooting it 

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

I dont think it would hurt to try it

I'm gonna Rawhide back the Red Oak, so I might temper it,...I don't know, but 

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Vine maple is a good candidate for belly tempering unless it already has a lot of reflex - then I do not recommend it.

Gordon, I need to deflex that Vine Maple significantly before I even attempt tillering 

[PatM]

Pics are mostly gone but..
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,6246.0.html

Forgot about belly tempering that bow, was this the one ?

http://s34.photobucket.com/user/NorthShoreLB/library/Tiger%20Oak?sort=3&page=1


 picked it up a couple years ago and lifted a splinter as I was shooting it 

 That's it. I remember it having a fancy fabric backing.

[Gordon]

Gordon, I need to deflex that Vine Maple significantly before I even attempt tillering

Manny, check out my vine maple build-a-long. I show some techniques for dealing with highly reflexed vine maple.

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

  Yeah Gordon, I checked that Thread, several times 

I'm afraid tho that my Bowyering skills aren't anywhere near as sharp as Yours,
and I need all the help I can get,
If I cannot deflex the stave with heat than I'll have to do the crazy tillering 

[Marc St Louis]

I used to intentionally reflex wood with dry heat by as much as 10" and more.  Tillering was interesting but far from impossible