Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Jodocus on December 16, 2013, 05:04:21 am
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This lever bow, wide and long, broke around 70# and 24" draw while I was exercising it. Actually, I think I know why, I didn't trust it all along. But it was almost there, a bit stiff in the inner limbs still. And I liked it, too.
It was probably too dry. I had the option to keep it in the workshop where it's frozen, or inside in the heated house. Chose inside, might have been a mistake. Second, the wood (sugar maple) was questionable. A bit of rot and bugbite here and there. And this knot wasn't making it better, either.
It really made a loud bang, but I myself got away ;D
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Glad you didn't get nocked in the noggin... Sounds like you were almost there...
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Yeah, but it's a very high quality break >:D ::)
I'll bet she went with bang...
Del
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She'll always break your heart right at the end! :o
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Hate it when that happens,looks like dry rot or 2 dry to me. I am with Del,bet that made a noise and had you scrambling for cover.. ;) :)
Pappy
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...it's a very high quality break
:laugh:
It's the very first time I actually broke a bow. I was real lucky. I was pulling it in my hand. The lever was still fat and heavy and missed me by only little. My wife came over to the workshop and see what the noise was about.
She looked at it for a second and said the wood must have been too dry ;D
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That's to bad, but a least there is no gory pictures ;D. Is the top picture the belly and the bottom the back? If the top is the belly, is that a big chrysal I see on either side of the break? Would that be the cause, the belly collapsed? I'm pretty sure I'm going to be seeing a few of these. It might help to be able to diagnose the cause.
Thanks
Don
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Those black streaks on the back are "spalt" . Your wood had started to break down by means of bacteria. When you dry the wood and the bacteria dries , it turns black (blue on pine) .I don't think you had a chance my friend. Glad you weren't hurt.
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Oh wow, good eye lostarrow. That is spalted for sure. Jodocus, you were doomed before you started. That wood was rotten. Now you ought not feel so bad cause it werent your fault :)
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That looks like a compression failure to me.
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I had noticed the rot when I started. It was an old plank, real old. But I had been hoping to get away with it. Doh!
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That's to bad, but a least there is no gory pictures ;D. Is the top picture the belly and the bottom the back? If the top is the belly, is that a big chrysal I see on either side of the break? Would that be the cause, the belly collapsed? I'm pretty sure I'm going to be seeing a few of these. It might help to be able to diagnose the cause.
Thanks
Don
Of Course it Chrysaled ..... When it broke !
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As long as it did not break your noggin, build another and another, more will break, more will break your heart and your love of woodworking, latlely I have not touched a peice of wood in the last 3 monnths..
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Been there more times than I care to admit. :(
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These are the ones that you learn from!
Yes a very high quality break ;) ;) ;)