heat treatment equipment

[aznboi3644]

I know that I can use my charcoal starter to temper some wood...simple steel cylinder.   I've gotten it hot enough to get the metal grill grate cherry red and start to melt...so that would be getting close to the melting point of steel which would be approaching about 1300 degree Fahrenheit.  Hmmm...maybe I can heat treat some broad heads.

[PeteC]

Someone may have already mentioned it,but build yourself a heat-gun holder like Marc shows in his heat treating chapter ofTBB.I built one and it works great. God bless

[Ryano]

I regularly use the burner on the electric kitchen stove. It is faster and I feel it gets the wood tempered more evenly do to heating a larger area at once. My brother tempers his bow bellys by holding them in front of the glass door on his wood burner, this also seems to work well. 

[Lombard]

I haven't done it with bows yet, but when I am heat treating and straightening arrows, I will get a good bed of hardwood coals in my fire ring, and whilst enjoying an adult beverage or so, temper and straighten my arrows. I see no reason why it wouldn't work fine for bows as well. I can easily imagine our ancestors doing similar activities around the fire.