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nickf

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straightening twisted staves
« on: June 24, 2009, 07:51:59 pm »
anybody who found some good ways of doing this? giving it a try soon, so I'm interested in how you do this, and if you have any recommendations/advice.

thanking in advance,

Nick


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Re: straightening twisted staves
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2009, 08:00:46 pm »
Been awhile since I touched any wood but was getting kinda partial to steaming the section to bend then clamping it and with a pair of welding gloves start twisting by hand - that was working good for the helical. If it's near bow deminsions and green I clamp it to a form to dry. And dry heat for small finish up areas.
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Re: straightening twisted staves
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2009, 08:44:37 pm »
Ive used cowboys method it works pretty good. Also another good way would to be to steam( Or if its osage use a heat gun with some crisco ) to heat up the wood (all the way to the center of the wood) and then clamp it to a flat surface.  Or if you had a recurve/reflex jig or somethin rigged up already you could kill two birds with one stone and clamp it to the jig to remove the twist and get your curve 8)  Ty
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