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mikekeswick

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Re: kitchen bending jigs?
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2017, 03:02:26 am »
Or just buy a gas stove and do it all in the workshop.

Offline chamookman

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Re: kitchen bending jigs?
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2017, 03:14:51 am »
Garage sale Coleman stoves are dime a dozen ! Bob
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Re: kitchen bending jigs?
« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2017, 11:29:27 pm »
I just wait til the wife's not home and bring all my crap to the kitchen.  No problem at all  >:D ;D

That was my tactic before I got a decent workshop :) I only got caught once when I forgot to empty the yellow sage water out of a fancy pan......err I was cooking....err yellow stuff....honest :)

Haha same happened to me, doggone yeller water! 

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Re: kitchen bending jigs?
« Reply #18 on: April 03, 2017, 11:40:03 pm »
 I steamed green osage in the kitchen ONCE. Steam condensed on the walls and left yellow streaks where the droplets ran down. Wife wasnt a bit pleased :o.
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Re: kitchen bending jigs?
« Reply #19 on: April 04, 2017, 10:16:27 am »
I have a 10-15 second jog from the kitchen to my shop. If I'm bending in recurves I just wrap the area with a towel to conserve heat. Never had an issue.
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Re: kitchen bending jigs?
« Reply #20 on: April 04, 2017, 12:02:03 pm »
I got this little steamer at an estate sale, paid $7 for it and 2 crock pots for sinewing, a year or so back i got this plastic tubing for steaming but didnt think it would steam long enough to bend anything.  These are belly slats but they bent like butter in about 2 mins but i steamed them for 5, worked great and i know it will work on a selfbow
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Re: kitchen bending jigs?
« Reply #21 on: April 04, 2017, 12:37:52 pm »
Bubby, do you leave it cool in the bag or cut it off?  I use any old bread bag so I cut it off and aim a fan at it.

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« Reply #22 on: April 04, 2017, 02:06:47 pm »
Dc once it cooled i cut the bag open
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Offline Ballasted_Bowyer

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Re: kitchen bending jigs?
« Reply #23 on: April 04, 2017, 03:28:53 pm »
I use a pot on the stove with a cotton towel as a tunnel and set my jig on a couple chairs. I usually get a small token of annoyance but the chairs are in bad shape already from having four boys. She doesn't like it if I set the towel on fire though.
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