ORIGINAL: bigcountry
Hey burne, I heard you don't to steam osage, only whitewoods. Is that so in your opinion? When you said, let the wood tell you when, are you kinda hand twisting? How long does the process take?
Yes, thats true. You would oil and heat it. I was bending a white oak self bow. Sorry for the confusion.
Oh yea. as for hand twising. Put the tip in the vice, after oiling it. Hold the bow in one hand and start heating the limb. Put a little torque pressure on the limb as you heat it. Heat by running the heat gun up and down the length you want to twist. You will feel when the wood starts to give. It will let you know. Dont over heat it to where you get bend in the limb. Just enough to where the twist starts to give.