Please Pearl, dont take what I do as me asking for advice and then ignoring yall. Often times I ask questions about something I am going to do to see what to expect, plan for it, and try to avoid negative outcome. This bow build for example.
To be honest, I thought the wood was dry enough to start making a bow from to begine with. However when you guys told me it was to wet, I wanted to see if and how to make a bow from one that is to wet by trying force drying ideas. I got the bow to stop dropping weight with all the force drying.
Then I started asking questions to find what to expect on the steaming of the wood and heat treat to remove set. I am doing it, but wanted to know what you guys had seen go wrong so I can try to prevent that from happening to me. Not by just not heat treating it to avooid it, but do it in a different manner to prevent the negative outcome experienced in the past.
Often time I ask a question, get the answer, then ask why that answer is true. I dont want to know just what to do and not to do, but also understand why. I feel if you can understand the entire process rather than just knowing it, you can work around obsticals better and force the outcome you want from a situation more accurately. Doing things folks dont recomend is how I like to do it. Its like a challenge. everybody knows a dry piece of wood makes a better bow than a wet one. So I want to figure out the fastest and best method to go from wet to dry bow, and cancell out all the negative effect of doing so.
Sorry for my hardheadedness, but for me, this is fun
