I started taking the bark off an osage stave yesterday. It has serious valley's in the back. Well, I plan on doing a bamboo backing on it so those aren't worrying me. My question is whether or not to just make it flat or flat and straight. Do I just decrown it and then straighten with heat or do I just flatten it disregarding the growth ring altogether?
First bamboo backing, as if you couldn't tell.
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