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Offline Pat B

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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2007, 10:40:05 am »
SW, You have the right attitude for building wood bows. Learn from your mistakes and move on!   

Did you use dry heat? with or without oil? steam? That profile would have made a great bow. Maybe the next one.   Pat
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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2007, 05:51:22 pm »
I used steam to reflex it and flip up the tips. When the limb that broke relaxed, I used dry heat with Crisco to bend it back.
   I think the wood had some unseen wind damage. It split between two late growth rings. I also noticed the spring rings were very porous.  Who knows... it's kindling all the same.  SW
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Offline Justin Snyder

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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2007, 06:00:25 pm »
It kind of looks like it raised a splinter on the back, then broke across in a line.  Did it separate on the new growth, kind of like de-laminating between the two late growth rings?  For such a clean snap I would guess a hinged area that lifted a splinter.  :-\ Yes I know what it looks like because I have had a few just like this.  Justin
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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2007, 07:08:22 pm »
duct tape and a helmet ;D
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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #19 on: May 18, 2007, 07:27:18 pm »
  If you need a couple for billet glue ups I have some other ends. ;)
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Offline DanaM

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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #20 on: May 18, 2007, 08:35:27 pm »
Sometimes Sh#* happens sucks but no way to avoid it.
Back to square one, I know the feelin.

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Offline jignfrog

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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #21 on: May 18, 2007, 11:58:12 pm »
It happens to the best of us. I broke one last week and one today. It hurt at first but heck I am getting numb to it now. I just throw it in the corner and start another. If it were easy there wouldn't be the web site about it. Keep at it. 

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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2007, 01:11:28 am »
Ah man that was a pretty piece of wood too.... :'( .oh well Shannon, just move on to the next one! ;)
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« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2007, 01:30:57 am »
A very similar thing happened to me the other day. When I used a heat gun to make a limb match the reflex in the other limb. I started tillering looked fine till I braced it for a short string and it busted.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2007, 01:34:40 am »
When heat treating or heat bending wood it is a good idea to wait a few days after before stressing the wood. This will allow it to rehydrate and may prevent spontaneous explosions! :o   Pat
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Offline jkekoni

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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #25 on: May 22, 2007, 08:22:52 am »
You can make another limb and Z or W slice and glue it to the handle.
(Providing that the other limb did not break too. That also sometimes happen, if the broken
limb starts a dry fire.

Or use takedown tube.

May not be easier that making a new one, but definitely possible.

You may counter the too much reflex, by putting some deflex in the handle.
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: You reckon I can fix this?
« Reply #26 on: May 22, 2007, 03:31:18 pm »
If you dry heat bend or heat treat a bow you should always wait a few days to let the wood hydrate back up because the back is what can let go if you don't.
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