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Offline Stixnstones

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What do i do with this ?
« on: January 27, 2015, 07:23:29 pm »
This happened while i was heating it on my caul
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Offline Badger

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2015, 07:26:14 pm »
  Not being a smart alleck here but nothing else could have happened the way you had it supported. I would glue it inside the crack and press it back together and it shoud be fine.
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2015, 07:39:17 pm »
Your clamps need to be inline or above the support blocks, or you will be applying bending stresses where you don't want them to be.
As Badger noted.... glue and clamp and you should be fine......  I had a finished recurve bow break at that same point when the string slipped off one of the tips during a shot.  Dry fire!  :(  I super glued and clamped it, then wrapped with sinew and it has held for about 700 shots and still going strong.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2015, 07:50:32 pm »
Im not sold on gluing and clamping it until I see that crack better. Looks almost like the crack extends to the back after a hard left at the knot? 
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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2015, 07:52:45 pm »
The crack does go beyond the knot a bit
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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2015, 07:58:52 pm »
Yeah me either.  That scares me.  A break in the handle can be explosive.  I would go ahead and glue it and see, but be afraid.   
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Offline Danzn Bar

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2015, 08:01:38 pm »
Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on January 27, 2015, 07:50:32 pm
Im not sold on gluing and clamping it until I see that crack better. Looks almost like the crack extends to the back after a hard left at the knot? 

Ya I see it now....if your right Chris...its toast... :'(
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2015, 08:06:46 pm »
That looks like a lot of reflex coming out of fades on your caul.  Mine has a gentle reflex in the center and increases as it goes out the limbs.
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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2015, 08:11:16 pm »
Can i work that handle down and follow the ring its on? Than possibly make my first bend thru the handle bow?
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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2015, 08:13:58 pm »
The crack follws the ring, it doesnt go towards the back of the bow
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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2015, 08:22:23 pm »
If your dead set on it being a bow here is the one and only way Id do it if it where mine.

Id totally saturate that crack with Loctite Professional super glue, no others, and clamp it for a few hours. Then Id wrap 2" beyond the crack end each way with some no stretch, high strength, small diameter braid. Fishing line would work. Then Id saturate that entire wrap in the same glue. It would be ugly'ish. but it wont ever come apart.
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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2015, 08:40:59 pm »
Thanx advice, will give it a whirl
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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2015, 09:00:27 pm »
I'm with pearlie and outlaw, You might want less reflex near the handle more toward the tips, and the last time something like this happened (molle lever, tried to push the reflex into the fade which was dumb ::) ) loctite-pro and a sinew wrap saved my butt.
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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2015, 05:58:43 am »
I would super glue and clamp as Badger said, you are pulling it tighter as you string and draw, it should be fine, seen a lot that happened to. :) It will almost always happen if they have a hump in the handle. :)The wrap sure won't hurt but I don't think it is necessary.  :)
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Offline Springbuck

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Re: What do i do with this ?
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2015, 03:05:02 pm »
Quote from: huisme on January 27, 2015, 09:00:27 pm
I'm with pearlie and outlaw, You might want less reflex near the handle more toward the tips, and the last time something like this happened (molle lever, tried to push the reflex into the fade which was dumb ::) ) loctite-pro and a sinew wrap saved my butt.

  This is correct: the old addage about making the bow the stave wants to become applies!  :-)   I have done the same thing, though.    If I have much natural deflex in a stave, I turn it into a deflex recurve/reflex. 

If you want to get creative and have any tools, you could even saw out the crack and square it up, then glue in a fitted splint, and work it in to the rest of the handle (assuming the back is very intact).  Cut it at a diagonal so you don't have one weak spot across. 
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