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Offline sailordad

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2009, 01:09:46 am »
dnt know about your bow,but that looks like a buck folding guthoohook knife with the wood scales
i have the same but  wit the rubber grips,easier for me to hold when its bloody >:D
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Offline Aries

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2009, 01:19:29 am »
lol it is my constant compainion, A pretty darn good knife.. and i like it even more because i got it for cost through my work ;D ;D
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Offline hedgeapple

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #17 on: August 12, 2009, 01:27:08 am »
Here's my completely novice theory.  It looks like there is a knot in the osage just to the handle side of the break.  Knots cause a stiff spot.  And, this knot is just at the taper of the handle fade where the bow should be bending slightly.  So you handle= stiff area, then you have knot = stiff area, followed by a node= weak spot.  The node area was absorbing on the preasure in transition from handle to limb.  Like I said this is a novice theory.  I've never attempted a lam bow.
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Offline mox1968

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2009, 07:40:31 am »
unlucky break ,you have to just get the next one started and put it behind you.the trials of bow making huh?
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Offline Aries

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2009, 08:53:27 am »
ya mox thats what im thinkin, I just try to learn as much as i can from each failure such as this one.   And hedgeapple that dark mark that looked luike a knot was actually just a grease smudge  ;)
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #20 on: August 12, 2009, 10:00:33 am »
My opinion, bad bamboo, shouldn't have broken like that. There is some good and some bad bamboo out there, I have had a bunch of the latter.
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Offline Aries

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #21 on: August 12, 2009, 03:01:36 pm »
 i hope its the latter because i thought i had done everythinhg right up to this point. I have several pieces of bamboo that came from the same location in alabama.  do you think that it could possibly all be bad?    Speaking of.. Ill be looking to trade for some more bamboo lol i have osage and snake skins shoot me a pm  ;D :P
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Offline Dean Marlow

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #22 on: August 12, 2009, 03:14:54 pm »
Looks like bad Bamboo to me.  Was there any grain run off in that area in the osage ? Dean
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Offline Aries

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #23 on: August 12, 2009, 04:51:37 pm »
If there was there would be very little, I had the grain running most of the length of the bow.
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Offline DarkSoul

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #24 on: August 12, 2009, 08:54:40 pm »
Bad bamboo. Looks like a typical case of bad bamboo. Good bamboo will not have so few splinters when (IF) it breaks. This bamboo is just not strong, it lacks powerfibers - so to speak.
A simple test for a bamboo slat: Take a 1" wide slat, about a foot in length. Bend it 180 degrees by hand. It should not break. It may (or may not) desintegrate with many fibers sticking out, but it should not snap.
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Offline Aries

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Re: bow death diagnosis
« Reply #25 on: August 12, 2009, 09:59:51 pm »
thanks dark, i will likely be usin that test quite a bit in the future ;D
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