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redboard
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dry heat bending
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April 29, 2014, 01:18:08 pm »
can someone link me to a good tutorial on dry heat bending? My bellies are cracking when I do it, I'm assuming because I 'm heating too fast? Its all been trial and error
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Slackbunny
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Re: dry heat bending
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April 29, 2014, 01:23:45 pm »
If you're using a stave my first guess is that your wood is still too green.
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April 29, 2014, 01:25:31 pm »
I'm currently working a privet stave, but all the bending I've tried so far is on board bows
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PatM
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April 29, 2014, 01:31:20 pm »
What type of wood?
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Blaflair2
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April 29, 2014, 01:36:24 pm »
I rub a good coat of crisco on it. Never worked privet. Some woods can't handle dry heat. I believe it works better on an oily woods. I believe there is also exceptions to that as well😁
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Marc St Louis
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Keep it flexible
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April 29, 2014, 01:41:22 pm »
Depends what kind of bending you want to do. If it's recurves then it's best to use wet-heat. If it's heat-straightening or reflexing then the 2 vids here
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,23338.0.html
might help. They are about heat treating but the idea is the same
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Re: dry heat bending
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April 29, 2014, 03:45:05 pm »
Found some cool vids on u tube
Gonna try on my p'hickeron tonight
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SLIMBOB
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April 29, 2014, 08:27:16 pm »
I've gotten a little more adventuresome with dry heat. I've bent some pretty good curves with it. No oil, but it's really touchy.
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