frankenstein handle

[turtle]

Ive been working on a red oak board bow lately and i screwed up the handle and fade area so bad that i had to peel it off and start over. I already had it ready for the long string when i messed it up so i built up the new hanlde from three lams hoping that would keep it from popping off. It held untill i got it tillered out to 28" @ 55#. The second time i pulled it to 28 the handle popped off. I had tightly wrapped both fades and the handle with cord so no other dammage was done. Anyway i cleaned it up and glued the handle back on. Then today i inlaid a 1/4" x 4" piece on each side of the handle.

First side glued up.



Both sides glued and roughed out.




Tommorow i will wrap both fades and string up. I will post more whether it holds or fails.

[BOWMAN53]

Why not make it a take down bow and let the steel sleeve take the stress?  That's a pretty creative idea to glue on more wood to the side, I wouldn't have thought of it. Hopefully it'll stay together this time

[Pappy]

That may hold it, good luck and pretty cool idea.
   Pappy

[turtle]

It failed badly, but at least the glue lines held.

[Tom Leemans]

O.K. I was gonna warn of that exact failure, but I see the bow beat me too it. Glad no one was injured.

[bow101]

  I hate to see broken bows. When you do all that work, even if it's a couple hours on some free wood and then she goes "Bang"   it is a total shame.