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Offline sieddy

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my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« on: March 10, 2015, 04:39:08 pm »
Hi fellas as the title says the Hazel stave bow that at the weekend was pulling 44#@26" and had an inch and a half of string follow. Is now showing 36#@26" on my scale and has a ton of set! :o
I can see how the backing could be inhibiting the bow from returning to straight but how could it reduce the drawweight?
I'm a bit gutted as it was my most successful bow to date- ah well another lesson learned!
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Offline vinemaplebows

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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2015, 04:44:59 pm »
Heat treat it, hazel responds well to heat treatment.
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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2015, 04:48:39 pm »
Do have any pics of it? Braces or drawn?
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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2015, 04:49:16 pm »
Hey Vmb I already toasted the back before I'd backed it! But I will take the backing off and heat treat it some more. Thanks.
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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2015, 04:49:48 pm »
When you glued it up if you induced a little reflex it might not have gained all that set
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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2015, 04:50:55 pm »
Hey Wiz- no I've only got a couple of pics from before I backed it.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2015, 04:53:50 pm »
You heat treated the back? Under the backing?
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2015, 04:54:13 pm »
The backing fibres were quite wet (I dipped them in water then wood glue squeezed the excess out then layes them on) Do you think the damp could be the culprit?
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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2015, 04:55:18 pm »
Hi Pearl drums-  no I heated it before I put the backing on.
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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2015, 04:55:56 pm »
Why did you heat treat a bows back?
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« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2015, 04:57:40 pm »
No sorry I mustn't have been clear. I heated the belly.
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« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2015, 04:59:16 pm »
I see now I was clear and also wrong. I definitely didn't heat the back!  :o
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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2015, 04:59:36 pm »
The backing fibres were quite wet (I dipped them in water then wood glue squeezed the excess out then layes them on) Do you think the damp could be the culprit?


Yup the moisture wicked into the bow basicly making it warp, if you would have added some reflex it should have been fine after it dried out
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Re: my hemp backed Hazel bow has lost weight and gained set!?!
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2015, 05:00:15 pm »
Ok, I was about to ask just what part of that you missed the last year!

If the bow is challenged, i.e. too short, too narrow, poor tiller and so on. It probably just caught up to you after a bunch of shooting. I see quite a few bows posted that claim 1/2" set, 3/4" set and so on. Maybe that's true hot off the press, but lets talk after 500-1000 shots. Most of us build too many bows to even hit that number with a good share of them.
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« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2015, 05:05:57 pm »
Damn this game is hard! :o
Thanks as always for the input fellas.  :)
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