I'm working on a new piece of Rocky Mountain maple, hoping to get a hunting weight out of this one. I hear maple does well with a good belly heat treat. I have a couple questions, though.
1. I've read a couple places that heat treating maple can make it too brittle. True, or should I go for it?
2. There's a pretty serious kink on one limb that I'm going to have to straighten before I can start tillering. If I steam the kink out, then heat treat, will the heat just put the kink back? I'm a little scared to try straightening it with just dry heat.
