Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DC on September 05, 2015, 02:23:31 pm
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When you are heat treating a bow is it OK to end abruptly or should you taper off?
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I usually only heat treat the working parts of the limbs and I end before I get to the tips. You can end abruptly.
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Thanks Pat Twice
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Seems a waste to not heat treat the ends for potential mass savings.
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I'm curious PatM, please elaborate
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When you heat treat I think that it forces moisture out of the wood and the wood shrinks and the structure changes, making it stronger for less wood. Less wood =less mass. But that's just how I think of it. I would be curious to hear other explanations or the correct one as mine may be wrong.
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The only reason I stop short of the ends is by the time I've done 2 feet of limb I'm bored spitlless. I usually straighten arrows while I'm heat treating but I ran out.
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if you heat treat the ends,, you could possibly make them smaller( because they are stronger now) and reduce mass and increase performance,,,
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Exactly.
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Bradsmith said it better.
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Before I heat treat, my tips have been flipped or re curved or straightened already, so I don't want that heat near my tips for fear the tips may come undone or move a little. Therefore, I don't let the. Heat treat close to the tips. Russ