apple splinter d-bow

[stuckinthemud]

Hi guys,

Last spring I was given a quantity of really not very good apple staves, but apple is too useful to turn down.  Anyway, I thought this one might be good to practice straightening techniques on (this is the sister the splinter came off - when the stress released the bends actually increased in size.


turns out apple reacts really well to dry heat and is incredible with steam

so here's the bow next to the billet it splintered off - tips slightly flipped - took 5 minutes each to steam, couldn't quite get all the big central deflex out and put a big split right through the bow when I pushed it too far - glued up really well with cascamite.

3/4 draw - sorry about the picture quality - will post decent photos when the finishing is done. she's 65" ntn and about 30# at 24.  Shoots really well, nice string tension, just 3 or 4 pounds over target weight at the moment, sanding and a few scrapes and should be good to go

[neuse]

Wow, that was a nasty piece of wood.
I would not of thought you could do that with it, good job.

[stuckinthemud]

It was a good fun project, learned lots and got a nice little characterful bow out of it too.   

[upstatenybowyer]

Never say never is what I say, but I might have said never with that stave. Amazing job taming that crazy beast!

[Mo_coon-catcher]

That's an awesome amount of teist and wonk you got tamed in that one. I look forward to seeing it finished out.

Kyle

[bjrogg]

Very good job subduing that beast. That looks like your going to get a real nice bow from that very challenging stave.
Bjrogg

[Stick Bender]

Nice job nice bow never tried apple but sounds like nice wood !

[Aaron H]

Cool, sounds like apple makes a great bow wood

[loon]

Woah, nice profile

[simson]

Apple is very good bow wood for sure.
That stave you have here is a challenge!
But you did already a good job on the splinter!