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I've never found glue/water ratio made any difference to cracking or not. It all dries to about 90% or so glue. What a higher initial ratio will give you is potentially more total glue left over which is where people run into cracking problems as many have noted. Thick glue well squeezed out to the optimum glue/sinew ratio doesn't make cracking noises.
If it's cracking the structural integrity is being compromised. Any time you make a composite material the idea is for both materials to do their part. So whatever is causing the cracking is the start of failure.
Pat, is it to late to wrap it and heat it to get rid of the excess?
Yes. It needs to have moisture to flow. I would just soak it off and re-do it.
I was asking if this method would work after it was cured.http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,43246.0.html
tkdHayk...The picture does not show the cracks to be that deep.I think you will be ok.Especially doing the extra what you stated too.I've seen little cross cracks on a sinewed bow of mine before too that is still shooting fine.
Less than a week of drying time?