Steaming and Bending Hickory to make an Iroquois Style Lacrosse Stick.mp4

A short video showing my friend and I bending a steam-heated hickory stave around a form during our Iroquois style lacrosse stick making projects

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Howto & Style

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• lacrosse
• Iroquois lacrosse stick
• indian lacrosse stick
• lacrosse stick making

[panzuman]

could you do a video on steaming the stick? im curious about he process

[Paleoaleo]

@panzuman Sure, but it would be a fairly boring video. If you check out my photo site (search google with these terms (Paleoaleo + Imageevent) and you'll find my photo albums. There's an album there with photos of the lacrosse stick project and several that show how I set up the steam tube and water and heat source (basically a high output propane burner heating up a 5 gal. metal can full of water with a radiator hose connecting the metal can with the PVC tube).

[Paleoaleo]

@Paleoaleo (reply continued)... I once the water starts boiling it starts kicking out a huge volume of steam. I put the wood into the tube and jam an old T-shirt in the far end around the end of the wood so that it helps to hold in the heat. Provided that you use "green" wood (in this case, hickory...somewhat freshly cut and shipped to me by friends), the staves seem to take about 1 hour of steaming before they are ready to bend (and then they bend like a wet noodle!).

[ybotn]

hey tom, if i get the wood after this summer could we make on of these? Goo dto see your back up here! See yah

[Aharndts]

Whoa, bending something that is over an inch thick... you are brave.