This elm was cut in the fall of last winter in a small forest nearby. I roughed it out the same day for quick drying and started working on it a few months later in the summer.
Tillered it to 55@20 with a goal of about 60@28. Usually when I am at this stage I glue on some tip overlays and start narrowing the tips.
The stave had pretty bad prop twist and the limbs come out of the handle uneven so I started correcting it with some heat. Got most of the twist out but made a mistake when tryin to fix the alignment and one tip cracked on the side. Too much sideways clamping pressure in a short area. Threw it in the corner of shame and left it there for a while.
A few months later I stumbled upon this thing when sorting through some staves and decided I should try to save it by adding some leftover bamboo over the crack on the belly. Used an offcut from a bamboo backing to make two strips and glued them on the belly of the tips using the same form I used when flipping the tips with heat. Used titebond 3 for this.
This actually was so much easier then I thought it would be! So I decided to share the "failed" bow here so the new guys can see that some mistakes can be fixed without to much trouble!
Since the stave was cut in winter there still was some leftover cambium on the bow. I actually like the look of that and accentuated it a bit using some water based stain.
// specs:
Wood: elm
Length: 66 ntn
Draw weight: 50@28
Max Width: 1.75 inches
Handle wrap: leather cord and leather strip
Finish: water based stain, spray on poly
String: 8 strand fast flight
// profiles
// braced
// details
// reinforced tip
// fd
