Osage back slight lift

[BrokenArrow]

I am finishing a 52 1/2 inch osage bow and at 24 inches I saw a very very slight lift on the limb back (upper) midlimb by edge but not into side of bow stave.
How would you heal this? 1)Remove little piece and smooth out area? 2) sinew on the small area on and around it?

[Dean Marlow]

Best thing you could do is take a picture and let everybody on here take a look at it. Best advice I could give you.

[wizardgoat]

Yes, post a picture.

[Pat B]

The first question is why did it lift a splinter? Ring violation? Knot?

[Badger]

  Sometimes on osage if we don't follow the radial grain just perfectly a littlelift might occur and we can just sand it away. Not sure on yours without seeing it. Double check your grain the way it runs, you may have to be in some good light and put on some reading glasses to se it clearly.

[bradsmith2010]

yes photo would be great,, a sinew wrap may be in order,, but let us see

[Springbuck]

Hope wide is it, and is the back pretty crowned?

[BrokenArrow]

I will take picture but the lift is so small that you can only really feel it in order to see it.

[DarkSoul]

If the lifted splinter is on the edge and too small to capture on camera, you can probably just round the edge some more to get rid of it. Blend it in nicely, and make sure all corners are rounded. The corners of a rectangle hardly contribute to the mechanical stiffness of the wood, yet they do contribute to the danger of lifting splinters to a great extent. I.e.: rounding the corners of a bow results in hardly any draw weight loss.