Heat for Straightenning

[Kegan]

Is using heat when you are making the shaft up before hand to straighten them a better long-term plan than just using hand pressure? Seems like it would help "train" the wood to stay straight...-er.

[Pat B]

I think it helps to remove the crooks without stressing the wood and it also helps keep them straight by tempering the wood.   Pat

[mullet]

  I think it would also keep you from breaking them ,because you really can't feel the breaking point untill it's too late.

[Kegan]

  I think it would also keep you from breaking them ,because you really can't feel the breaking point untill it's too late.

Isn't that the truth. I hadn't bothered with heat on my previous batch, and was trying to bend out the kink right by the feathers, where the tapering started. *SNAP* That wasn't much fun .

[1/2primitive]

YES! Heat makes the shafts bend easily and keep their bend (which in this case is a good thing ). Especially bamboo.
Speaking of tempering the wood, Have you tried putting grooves in your arrows? If done properly, it keeps arrows remarkably straight.
     Sean

[Kegan]

YES! Heat makes the shafts bend easily and keep their bend (which in this case is a good thing ). Especially bamboo.
Speaking of tempering the wood, Have you tried putting grooves in your arrows? If done properly, it keeps arrows remarkably straight.
     Sean

I tried grooving before, but my tool was jsut terrible. My arrows are ugly enough as they are !