Fire tempering.

[A. G. Maisey]

Yeah, I agree, use of tempering is no big deal, the reason I have commented is because when I saw it was about wood the use of the word confused me until I read further.

Roots are Latin>temperare,Old English>temprian,Old French>tremper(sense development).

Temperare is to moderate, tempo and tempor are related to time.

My apologies for being pedantic.

[Tim Simmons]

Good chat fellows. I have been looking at youtube for a demonstration video. Some lightly interesting stuff can be found, but none of the examples are anyway of a serious nature. Certainly not in the sense of fire hardening a whole club like the New Hebrides piece.