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Offline DC

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Heat treating
« on: September 05, 2015, 02:23:31 pm »
When you are heat treating a bow is it OK to end abruptly or should you taper off?
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2015, 02:43:00 pm »
I usually only heat treat the working parts of the limbs and I end before I get to the tips. You can end abruptly.
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Offline DC

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2015, 02:47:21 pm »
Thanks Pat  Twice
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Offline PatM

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2015, 02:52:54 pm »
Seems a waste to not heat treat the ends for potential mass savings.
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2015, 03:17:40 pm »
I'm curious PatM, please elaborate
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Offline bowandarrow473

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2015, 03:48:41 pm »
When you heat treat I think that it forces moisture out of the wood and the wood shrinks and the structure changes, making it stronger for less wood. Less wood =less mass. But that's just how I think of it. I would be curious to hear other explanations or the correct one as mine may be wrong.
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Offline DC

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2015, 04:17:58 pm »
The only reason I stop short of the ends is by the time I've done 2 feet of limb I'm bored spitlless. I usually straighten arrows while I'm heat treating but I ran out.
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Offline bradsmith2010

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2015, 04:37:27 pm »
if you heat treat the ends,, you could possibly make them smaller( because they are stronger now) and reduce mass and increase performance,,,
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Offline PatM

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2015, 05:20:03 pm »
 Exactly.
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Offline bowandarrow473

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2015, 05:26:31 pm »
Bradsmith said it better.
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Offline RBLusthaus

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Re: Heat treating
« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2015, 06:22:50 pm »
Before I heat treat, my tips have been flipped or re curved  or straightened already, so I don't want that heat near my tips for fear the tips may come undone or move a little.  Therefore, I don't let the. Heat treat close to the tips.   Russ
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