STRIP PREP
Twelve strips (six for the tip and six for the butt sections) can be tightly bundled up and put in an oven at 275° for two hours to be dried and strengthened. My oven is a four inch galvanized steel pipe inside an eight inch pipe. A heat gun blows down between the two pipes and up the four inch pipe where strips are suspended. Note, I have since wrapped the oven in fiberglass insulation to retain heat evenly top to bottom.