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Offline stringstretcher

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cane arrow straightner?
« on: January 16, 2008, 10:06:42 pm »
Has anyone come up with a cleaver device to aid in the straightening of cane arrow shafts.  I was thinking of something alone the lines of taking a piece of angle iron(aluminum) and cutting a part of the 90degree angle out leaving a sort of window.  Make up some sort ot leaver to attach to the back with a grab hook to put on the arrow shaft, and then using it like an arrow straightner but in reverse.  Anyone have other methods to try that works better than eye balling?
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Re: cane arrow straightner?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2008, 10:24:31 pm »
   too much trouble and it's a lot easier to do it by hand. If you don't have an alcohol lamp, use a propane torch or any heat source. It takes very little heat or effort to straighten cane. You could straighten 3 dozen arrows in the time it took to figure out how to make that contraption. You want to make arrows?; or machines? ;D. Like Pappy said, It ain't Rocket science.  ;)
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Re: cane arrow straightner?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2008, 10:56:26 pm »
LOL......well how about if I just become an "arrow making machine".....you got me......I will stick to making arrows I guess..  man what one has to go through with for just thinking......roflmao
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« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2008, 11:03:03 pm »
   LOL,   Naww, really, it's easy to straightend them while watching TV. Heck , build one, it might be in Cabelo's next year.
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Re: cane arrow straightner?
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2008, 11:16:59 pm »
It's hard to beat your hands and eyeballs, after some practice. I heard of one guy who had a flat-topped wood stove who would heat up another flat piece of sheet metal on top of it, then roll the shafts between them to roughly straighten them and compress the nodes at the same time.
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Re: cane arrow straightner?
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2008, 11:36:19 pm »
I got a slide top Wood King, reckon that would work with it?
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Re: cane arrow straightner?
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2008, 10:27:33 pm »
I have been reading bits and pieces about heating the cane, "while green" and rubbing them under a piece of wood to flatten the nodes.  Can this be done after the cane has dried???
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« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2008, 10:53:54 pm »
I like using an oil lamp to heat cane, no chance in scorching the cane.

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« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2008, 09:37:40 pm »
Stringstretcher,all these fellas are right,cane is simple to straighten.It'll get as soft as butter over a flame.If you wear heavy gloves while you do it, you can straighten the whole shaft without settin' it down ,and won't burn your fingers. God Bless, PeteC
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Re: cane arrow straightner?
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2008, 11:19:58 pm »
How about a IRON works great for me.   and I use it with steam.
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