Fire Hard.

[PebblePlacement]

Will fire hardening my composite long bow make it brittle? Mess up my laminating?
Pros and cons?

Maple and birch, then gumtree lams after hardening.. Does this work?

The limb are just one piece of maple, all the glued layers are in the riser.
Just fire the limbs and not the handle and shelf sections?

[bubby]

if all the lams are in the riser then it's really not a composite, if the limbs are one pc you can heat treat the limbs

[PebblePlacement]

Thanks for the info, i must have misunderstood.

[George Tsoukalas]

Heat may and probably will affect the glue bond. Jawge

[PebblePlacement]

I don't think I can risk this one...  Now I am going to have to make one just to test ( ooooo  poor me lol )

[Slackbunny]

As long as you keep the heat away from your glue, you should be fine. A number of people use heat to "temper" the belly of their bow to reduce the probability of set, and to add a few pounds of draw weight. But they normally do it using a heat gun and they normally put the bow in slight reflex during the process.

You probably could do it using fire but you'd need to be pretty careful. Also if you do decide to do it, make sure that you don't flex the bow for a week or so afterwards. The heat will dry it out to an unsafe level, and it needs to re-acclimatize before you stress it.

[PebblePlacement]

Great advise..into action today, results to come. Thanks.

[crooketarrow]

  I don't know of any glues that a heat resistant. Heat will make your glue fail.