Cutting Ram Horn

Good points on the dry heat you guys, I use it a lot too, it works good. Good pictures too, that is what I was trying to say. Sometimes it can be a mistake to use dry heat to straighten thick pieces of very dry horn. Because it dries it out more, I have had the horn just break into pieces when trying to bend old stuff dry. Its a coin toss either way. Six years old is pretty old, depending on where it was kept, it could be pretty dry. I do not like to boil it either for the reasons mentioned. Steam does not seem to introduce so much water into the piece, most of the water evaporates away before the piece is cooled, because it is much hotter than boiling water (250'). To dry the clamped pieces in the winter, I throw them into an open heat duct in my shop. In two weeks and they are good. In the summer I throw them outside on my garage door apron against the garage door, the sun beating down on them makes it quite hot, and dries them quickly, but then I have to watch the weather. I appreciate the exchange of ideas.
 
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