Posted on 10/27/2005 8:31:33 AM PDT by The Zontron 7000
question my Liege... by using a pre-bent or a natural bent section, is that/does it make that, section stronger/weaker/neutral in that section as far as memory/spring action/poundage vs a homogeneous bend/strength??? i'm not very clear but you prolly get my drift.
Some years ago one touched down in San Jose, and took the roof off a gas station, as I recall.
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I award you the Freeper Medal of Extreme Valor of this act of courage. I think two minutes over there would have my fingers itching for the trigger of my flame thrower.
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Ouch, well what do you like Esme?
Don't you ever sleep????
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answer: I'm buggered if I know, conclusively.
theoretically, a recurve which follows the "grain" of the material, whether that grain's curve is innate or artificial, will be stronger than one which cuts across or skew to the grain.
wet-bending and allowing it to cure will cause some damage to the internal cross-grain integrity of any woody material, but far less so than dry-bending.
steam bending would have been better, but I dunno how.
brain full yet?
Yes, but my clock is completely out of whack. Trying to adjust from Korea time to Seattle time, last night I overshot by about 50%, which I think puts me somewhere off the eastern seaboard timewise. I crashed really early last night, and woke up quite early this morning.
I may go get a cup of coffee, just to get started...
I could get behind that.
Mee too. Find working weekends really goofs up the internal clock. Could be working 4 days intestead of five but for some reason the old machine wants to shut down early on Mondays and is slow to get started on Tuesdays. Weird that. Your internal clock at least makes sense
I've watched steam bending in the making of a baidarka (Aleutian kayak). Doesn't look all that difficult, and some of the links below show how to make a steam box.
http://www.megspace.com/lifestyles/njmarine/Steam.html
http://www.rtpnet.org/robroy/baidarka/bending.html
http://www.allwoodwork.com/article/woodwork/methods_of_bending_wood.htm
http://www.primitiveways.com/bending.html
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