Hi,

Please look at http://www.thestringwizards.org   I perform basic repair and maintenance tasks for violins in use at inner city schools in Chicago.  I also teach some high school kids, who also help with cleaning and re-stringing.

After several years of this I have quite a number of spent bows.  I have the equipment to do bow rehairing, but it is very hard to do well, and takes a lot of practice, so more than once I have put this effort aside.  

All bows have a basic camber.  I am not talking about that.  My concern is a number of the bows (with no hair at all) are twisted off to the left or the right when you sight down them the way you might sight down the barrel of a rifle.  I would think a small amount of moisture and a clamp and a 200 degree oven would fix this like you might correct a bridge warp, but I don't have a clamp that would work for a bow.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks

Terry