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Offline Sparky

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Curved stave
« on: March 11, 2021, 05:57:36 pm »
Do these staves look ok? There's a lot of natural curve to the hickory. It's the way it is drying. What are your thoughts? Thanks, Greg.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2021, 07:12:31 pm »
It's natural do to inside stresses in the wood. Generally speaking this can be corrected with with stream or dry heat as you are building your bow.
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Offline Sparky

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2021, 08:20:41 pm »
Searching the web I found this post from here. Pretty much addresses my questions about natural reflex. Guess I should of done a bit more lookin first.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=33784.0
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Offline bjrogg

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2021, 09:20:20 pm »
Those look pretty nice to me. How long are they?

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Offline Digital Caveman

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2021, 09:28:40 pm »
If you don't like them I'll pay shipping if you send me the one on the far left :D.
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Offline Deerhunter21

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2021, 11:04:10 pm »
Ill pay shipping for the one in the Middle Right!!  ;) ;D
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Offline M2A

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2021, 09:00:05 am »
Looks like you got some nice stuff there. Unless I'm missing something. Like Pat said, you can make some adjustments with heat as you go, if needed.
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2021, 09:14:08 am »
I have found sideways bend in hickory hard to correct with heat or steam, I should say easy to correct but hard to keep it from going back.
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Offline Woody roberts

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2021, 09:33:42 am »
I have found center shot bows to be much easier to make with staves like these. Just my experience.
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2021, 12:21:21 pm »
Curve? Call that curve????  ::)
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Offline Sparky

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2021, 12:47:39 am »
The long ones are 7' long. This is new to me and my son. We have a couple more in the shed. The three have zero knots. We are going to cut them down some soon to aid in the seasoning. We probably would have cut the tree a bit different if we had any real idea what we are doing.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2021, 11:04:05 am »
All else fails, you can saw them into billets and when you join them together you can correct for the bend. Mind you, that's getting kinda technical, but plenty of folks can walk you through a Z spliced handle here.
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Offline Hamish

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Re: Curved stave
« Reply #12 on: March 19, 2021, 04:45:24 am »
JW with a surname like Halverson, I was not surprised when you suggested halving the staves into billets :D (good idea though)
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