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Offline vinemaplebows

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Can you find any use for this?
« on: May 24, 2014, 01:03:03 am »
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Offline bubby

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2014, 03:28:57 am »
dang, did you see them bend the 2x6 on edge
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Offline Crogacht

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2014, 03:50:21 am »
Does make you wonder what they did to it to make it behave like that.
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2014, 03:59:10 am »
Freaky, don't s'pose it's much good for bows after that process tho'  >:(
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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2014, 10:42:30 am »
You would never break another bow, but your arrows might not reach the target either.
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Offline lostarrow

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2014, 11:05:49 am »
they use it for cabinet making and in boat interiors. They compress it from the ends. (introduced set on all surfaces)
 
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Offline vinemaplebows

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2014, 12:53:56 pm »
I was thinking BACKING! ;)
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2014, 01:39:21 pm »
For me, this video reasserts the importance of burnishing the backs of bows. 
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Offline zenart

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2014, 03:36:44 pm »
Quote from: Carson (CMB) on May 24, 2014, 01:39:21 pm
For me, this video reasserts the importance of burnishing the backs of bows. 

Carson when you burnish are you applying a lot of pressure, like really bearing down attempting to 'compress' deeply or are you just working the surface fibers to help prevent splinter lift?
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2014, 04:04:05 pm »
Although that is kinda crazy, hard maple is probably the perfect wood for this example. It is pretty darn tension strong.




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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2014, 05:08:06 pm »
Zenart, I use as much force by hand as I can.  I use polished stones.  By the time I am done, my shoulders, wrists, and hands, are ready for a break.  A noticeable amount of heat is generated in the wood during the process. 
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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2014, 10:56:54 pm »
First thing I thought of was, "Now that would be an easy way to make a twisted stem smoking pipe!"   ;D
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Offline Badger

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Re: Can you find any use for this?
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2014, 12:38:45 am »
  This same effect can happen on bows that are overly reflexed, not to this extreme but the same forces are at work. We crush the back fibers when we reflex it stretching the belly fibers, Then we crush the belly fibers when we start tillering the bow, thats why we kind of hit a point of deminishing returns with reflex.
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