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Location: Australia
Hey people,
My aluminium 1400mm staff has been left in a bad place for a few months (I thought I had lost it!) and now it has slightly warped, is there any way of straightening. I'm going to buy a new one anyways (and take much better care of it ofcourse) but I would like to fix this one anyways to practice with or give to someone else if I can. Thankyou for any replies in advance.
Also where is the best place to store a staff? In a carry bag? Standing up or lying down? etc etc?
Pooh-Bah
1,626 posts
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Alu you can just bend straight again, but once warped, alays warped a bit in my (admittedly very limited)experience.
It's not the end of the world if it moves slightly kinky, but you've got to remember to keep it somewhere it'll be happy
Best advice - next time buy a take-down
And hey, it's not all bad - you thought you lost it!
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Member
89 posts
Location: Caves Beach, NSW, Australia
Best place to store is in a length of pvc pipe with end caps.
48 posts
Location: Scotland
maybe i should design a wood cored staff with a truss rod, so you can keep it straight, hmmmm.
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Corporate Circus Arts Entertainer
3,989 posts
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Or do what I do, use them as long as you can, and when bent, make/buy amother one!
"Simple, and then there are dozens of staffs for people to play with when they come over.."
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Written by: Charles
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You want to start taking better care of your staffs
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Thoreau
playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
If you're willing to spend a few quid and track down a place who does it you should be able to find a engineering works or similar who do pipe bending. A pip bending machine can straighten pipes up quite nicely, providing the metal hasn't stretched too much on the one side.
Or do as Charles says, make a new one and have a rough spare one for other folks to use
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not different, just not the same
263 posts
Location: Charlotte, NC, USA
the staff is not bent. It is you who are bending around the staff I once learned every move that there was,
Every style, Every technique.
Then I woke up, and forgot it all,
So now I struggle to dream.
stranger
1 post
Location: Canada
aggggg this happenned to me too Im so bummed. Although it warped not very much and the balance point is still directly in the middle. It seems as though the moves still flow fine, Im just wondering about contact. Do you think a perfectly balanced but mildly warped stick will still work just as fine?
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
problem with warped staffs is once bent any contact body rolls like steves wobble and bounce which isn't pleasant and when it happened to me annoyed me greatly so i made a new one.
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
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