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Bows / Re: Fire Hardening
« Last post by Burnsie on Today at 07:11:56 pm »
Not sure what you mean by "fire hardening".  Heat-treating is essentially the fire hardening of wood.  If not done properly though "heat-treating" can be nothing more than changing the surface wood's structure and that really does nothing for a bow.  Proper heat-treating of a bow is a process that takes several hours to do.  Osage and BL certainly benefit from heat-treating but they react a bit differently to heat and you have to keep a close watch on what's happening with the wood, I suspect it may have something to do with the oils in the wood
"Fire Hardened"
Just using the terminology many have used online to describe the process of hanging a bow over a bed of coals and baking the belly of the bow (usually a white wood) pretty substantially. I guess it is just another form of heat treating?  I will defer to you Marc, you have learned and tested more with heat treating than most everyone here combined.
My original curiosity was more about whether Osage benefitted from doing the same type of heat treating/fire hardening as is done with hickory - as an example.  Sounds like it can - but needs to be done more carefully than other woods if I'm understanding correctly?
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Around the Campfire / Re: update pics of my head
« Last post by sleek on Today at 06:25:31 pm »
What are the exercises? My wife got a concussion years ago, She cant bend over to 90° without getting dizzy.
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Bows / Re: Tiller check
« Last post by Fox on Today at 01:50:32 pm »
Thanks y’all! Appreciate the help! I was getting in my head about whether I was close or not  :)
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Around the Campfire / Re: update pics of my head
« Last post by Pat B on Today at 11:52:18 am »
Thanks, Marc. I went to my Dr last week and he gave me some exercises for the dizziness. After 3 sessions of the exercises the dizziness disappeared. I'm on my 12th session now. I'll talk to my Dr today to let him know how well it worked.
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Bows / Re: Big Osage tree
« Last post by osage outlaw on Today at 11:50:50 am »
The sled
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Bows / Re: Big Osage tree
« Last post by osage outlaw on Today at 11:45:34 am »
I’m having trouble attaching pictures
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Bows / Re: Big Osage tree
« Last post by osage outlaw on Today at 11:41:30 am »
Here is a picture of my splitting stand. I didn’t like bending over all day working on them.  I would split them into chunks small enough to handle right after cutting.  I sealed the ends multiple times with glue or polyurethane. I would leave them stacked in my garage and split them down into staves when I had time. I would recommend removing the bark and sapwood while it’s fresh.  It gets much tougher once it dries. Seal the backs a couple times as well.  If you leave the bark on you risk borer damage.  I made a log sled to pull behind my UTV.  It made them slide over the ground much easier. 
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Around the Campfire / Re: update pics of my head
« Last post by Marc St Louis on Today at 10:47:59 am »
First time I hear of this Pat.  Glad you're OK.  I nearly got clonked on the head like that a few years ago, the limb just missed me.
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Bows / Re: Fire Hardening
« Last post by Marc St Louis on Today at 10:45:25 am »
Not sure what you mean by "fire hardening".  Heat-treating is essentially the fire hardening of wood.  If not done properly though "heat-treating" can be nothing more than changing the surface wood's structure and that really does nothing for a bow.  Proper heat-treating of a bow is a process that takes several hours to do.  Osage and BL certainly benefit from heat-treating but they react a bit differently to heat and you have to keep a close watch on what's happening with the wood, I suspect it may have something to do with the oils in the wood
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Primitive Skills / Re: stinky gelatin/hide glue
« Last post by Eric Krewson on Today at 10:03:45 am »
All hide glue smells, I had used commercial hide glue initially before I switched to Knox. The commercial stuff had a stink to it when it was wetted, I knew Knox was real hide glue when I wetted it and had the same funky smell as the stuff I had used used before.

Your Knox is just fine.
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